Reproduction
$51.85
- Hardcover
464 pages
- Release Date
24 November 2020
Summary
WINNER OF THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
An internationally bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving book about how strangers become family.
Reproduction tells a crooked love story which takes strange, winding paths shaped by community, family and fleeting interactions that leave an inedible imprint.
Felicia, a nineteen-year-old West Indian student, and Edgar, an impetuous heir of a wealthy German family, meet when th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349701837 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0349701830 |
| Author: | Ian Williams |
| Publisher: | John Murray Press |
| Imprint: | Dialogue Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 464 |
| Release Date: | 24 November 2020 |
| Weight: | 740g |
| Dimensions: | 238mm x 160mm x 44mm |
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Critics Review
Reproduction is many things at once. It’s an engrossing story of disparate people brought together and also a masterful unfolding of unexpected connections and collisions between and across lives otherwise separated by race, class, gender and geography. It’s a pointed and often playful plotting out of individual and shared stories in the close spaces of hospital rooms, garages, mansions and apartments, and a symphonic performance of resonant and dissonant voices, those of persons wanting to impress, persuade, deny, or beguile others, and always trying again
Witty, playful, and disarmingly offbeat - even as it hums with serious themes - Toronto StarA sprawling novel that is both funny and poignant, powerful and playful - Calgary HeraldReproduction is reminiscent of Miriam Toews’s novel All My Puny Sorrows in its balance between grief and humour. It’s an intergenerational story told in an unexpected way - Quill & QuireAbout The Author
Ian Williams
Multi award-winning poet, short story writer, and novelist Ian Williams was named one of the ‘ten Canadian writers to watch out for’ by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 2018. Williams holds a PhD in English from the University of Toronto and is currently an assistant professor of poetry in the Creative Writing programme at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. Reproduction, his debut novel, won the 2019 Scotiabank Giller Prize - the highest accolade for literature in Canada.
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