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Hellgoing : stories / Lynn Coady.

by Coady, Lynn, 1970-

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House of Anansi Press, c2013.

9781770893085 (trade pbk.)

Alternate title:

Hell going : stories

223 p. ; 21 cm.

Wireless -- Hellgoing -- Dogs in clothes -- Take this and eat it -- An otherworld -- Clear skies -- The natural elements -- Body condom -- Mr. Hope.

"With astonishing range and depth, Scotiabank Giller Prize finalist Lynn Coady gives us nine unforgettable new stories, each one of them grabbing our attention from the first line and resonating long after the last. A young nun charged with talking an anorexic out of her religious fanaticism toys with the thin distance between practicality and blasphemy. A strange bond between a teacher and a schoolgirl takes on ever deeper, and stranger, shapes as the years progress. A bride-to-be with a penchant for nocturnal bondage can't seem to stop bashing herself up in the light of day. Equally adept at capturing the foibles and obsessions of men and of women, compassionate in her humour yet never missing an opportunity to make her characters squirm, fascinated as much by faithlessness as by faith, Lynn Coady is quite possibly the writer who best captures what it is to be human at this particular moment in our history."--Publisher.

Winner of the Giller Prize, 2013.

Short stories, Canadian.

Literary fiction.

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