Some Other Garden
by Urquhart, Jane
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
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Whitby, Ontario, Canada
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Synopsis
Jane Urquhart was born in Little Long Lac, Ontario, and grew up in Toronto. She is the author of five internationally acclaimed novels: The Whirlpool , which received Le prix du meilleur livre étranger (Best Foreign Book Award) in France; Changing Heaven ; Away , winner of the Trillium Award and a finalist for the prestigious International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; The Underpainter , winner of the Governor General’s Award and a finalist for the Rogers Communications Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize; The Stone Carvers , which was a finalist for The Giller Prize and the Governor General’s Award, and longlisted for the Booker Prize; and A Map of Glass , a finalist for a regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book. She is also the author of a collection of short fiction, Storm Glass , and four books of poetry, I Am Walking in the Garden of His Imaginary Palace , False Shuffles , The Little Flowers of Madame de Montespan , and Some Other Garden ). Her work has been translated into numerous foreign languages. Urquhart has received the Marian Engel Award, and is a Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in France and an Officer of the Order of Canada. Urquhart has received numerous honorary doctorates from Canadian universities and has been writer-in-residence at the University of Ottawa and at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and, during the winter and spring of 1997, she held the Presidential Writer-in-Residence Fellowship at the University of Toronto. She has also given readings and lectures in Canada, Britain, Europe, the U.S.A., and Australia. Jane Urquhart lives in southwestern Ontario.
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- Bookseller
- Minotavros Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008752
- Title
- Some Other Garden
- Author
- Urquhart, Jane
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- McClelland and Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto
- Date Published
- 2000
- Keywords
- Jane Urquhart, Jennifer Dickson, poetry, poems
- Bookseller catalogs
- Poetry;
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