Reading by Lightning - The Reader's Guide Edition (Paperback, 2nd Reader's Guide ed.)

Winner, Commonwealth Writers Prize, Canada and the Caribbean, Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and On the Same Page, Manitoba ReadsShortlisted, Eileen McTavish Sykes Award for Best First Book, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction, and McNally Robinson Book of the YearLonglisted, IMPAC Dublin Literary AwardFor Lily Piper, life on the prairie is spare, austere, and tucked in. She is restless -- not the daughter she feels her mother wants. When puberty hits, an abrupt shift in fate has Lily on her way to England to care for her aging grandmother. There, she experiences life in all its ambiguity, until she is called home to face a future she thought she had escaped. Thomas's prose is intimate, elegant and devastatingly funny; her engrossing story of Lily Piper tells us something about how we make sense of the future when the future is something we can hardly imagine. Reading by Lightning, Joan Thomas's long-awaited first novel, took readers by storm. A year after its publication, it had won numerous awards, found a large readership, and been selected by popular vote for On the Same Page, Manitoba's one book reading experience. Goose Lane is pleased to reissue Reading by Lightning in this reader's guide edition, complete with an afterword, an interview with the author, extended biographical notes, and more.

General

Imprint:	Goose Lane Editions
Country of origin:	Canada
Release date:	October 2011
First published:	October 2011
Authors:	Joan Thomas
Afterword by:	Lisa Moore
Dimensions:	215 x 139 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	408
Edition:	2nd Reader's Guide ed.
ISBN-13:	978-0-86492-664-7
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General & literary fiction > Modern fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Sagas Promotions
LSN:	0-86492-664-2
Barcode:	9780864926647

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