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Even That Wildest Hope

$2015

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Finalist for the Manitoba Book Awards' Margaret Laurence
Award for Fiction and the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First
Book
Longlisted for the Sunburst Award for Adult Fiction

The highly anticipated debut short story collection by Journey Prize finalist Seyward Goodhand.

Even That Wildest Hope
bursts with vibrant, otherworldly characters--wax girls and
gods-among-men, artists on opposite sides of a war, aimless plutocrats
and anarchist urchins--who are sometimes wondrous, often grotesque, and
always driven by passions and yearnings common to us all. Each story is
an untamed territory unto itself: where characters are both victims and
predators, the settings are antique and futuristic, and where our
intimacies--with friends, lovers, enemies, and even our food--reveal a
deeply human desire for beauty and abjection. Stylistic and primordial, Even That Wildest Hope
is a chaotic and always satisfying fabulist journey in the baroque
tradition of Angela Carter, Carmen Maria Machado, and Ted Chiang.

"Read any sentence in this collection and you will know that Seyward Goodhand is a rare and original talent."--David Bezmozgis

"It's a relief to find this kind of daring in Canadian fiction."--CNQ

"Seyward Goodhand can whip up a hell of a story... Yes read it."--Lolly K Dandeneau



Author: Seyward Goodhand
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Invisible Publishing
Published: 09/16/2019
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781988784366

About the Author
Goodhand, Seyward: -

Seyward Goodhand grew up in Hastings County and the North York suburb of Newmarket. Her work has been short-listed for the McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize and a National Magazine Award and long-listed for the CBC Short Story Prize. Her award-winning stories have appeared in Found Press, Riddle Fence, Cosmonauts Avenue, subTerrain, PRISM international, Grain, and Dragnet. She is a PhD student in English at the University of Toronto, and lives Winnipeg where she is a sessional instructor of academic writing.

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  • Publication Date
  • Dimensions
    7.9 in, 5 in, 0.6 in
  • Pages
    224
  • Publisher
    Invisible Publishing

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Even That Wildest Hope by Goodhand, Seyward
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Even That Wildest Hope

$2015

Finalist for the Manitoba Book Awards' Margaret Laurence
Award for Fiction and the Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First
Book
Longlisted for the Sunburst Award for Adult Fiction

The highly anticipated debut short story collection by Journey Prize finalist Seyward Goodhand.

Even That Wildest Hope
bursts with vibrant, otherworldly characters--wax girls and
gods-among-men, artists on opposite sides of a war, aimless plutocrats
and anarchist urchins--who are sometimes wondrous, often grotesque, and
always driven by passions and yearnings common to us all. Each story is
an untamed territory unto itself: where characters are both victims and
predators, the settings are antique and futuristic, and where our
intimacies--with friends, lovers, enemies, and even our food--reveal a
deeply human desire for beauty and abjection. Stylistic and primordial, Even That Wildest Hope
is a chaotic and always satisfying fabulist journey in the baroque
tradition of Angela Carter, Carmen Maria Machado, and Ted Chiang.

"Read any sentence in this collection and you will know that Seyward Goodhand is a rare and original talent."--David Bezmozgis

"It's a relief to find this kind of daring in Canadian fiction."--CNQ

"Seyward Goodhand can whip up a hell of a story... Yes read it."--Lolly K Dandeneau



Author: Seyward Goodhand
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Invisible Publishing
Published: 09/16/2019
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.00w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781988784366

About the Author
Goodhand, Seyward: -

Seyward Goodhand grew up in Hastings County and the North York suburb of Newmarket. Her work has been short-listed for the McClelland & Stewart Journey Prize and a National Magazine Award and long-listed for the CBC Short Story Prize. Her award-winning stories have appeared in Found Press, Riddle Fence, Cosmonauts Avenue, subTerrain, PRISM international, Grain, and Dragnet. She is a PhD student in English at the University of Toronto, and lives Winnipeg where she is a sessional instructor of academic writing.

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