About the Book

From Barbara Gowdy’s groundbreaking collection We So Seldom Look on Love comes “Body and Soul,” an inspiring, beautiful story about the families we make for ourselves.

Hailed as “remarkable and uplifting” by The Globe and Mail, Gowdy’s debut collection We So Seldom Look on Love was published to much acclaim around the world. Its eight stories push past the limits of convention into lives that are fantastic and heartbreakingly real.

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Product Details

• ISBN: 9781443419949
• ISBN 10: 144341994X
• Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
• On Sale: 10/23/2012
• Pages: 50
• List Price:0.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : FICTION / Short Stories (single author)

Barbara Gowdy

Biography

Barbara Gowdy is the author of seven books, including Helpless, The Romantic, The White Bone, Mister Sandman, We So Seldom Look on Love and Falling Angels, all of which have been met with widespread international acclaim and critical praise. She has been a finalist three times for the Governor General’s Award and the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, and twice for the Giller Prize and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, and has been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 1996, she received the Marian Engel Award and in 2008 the Trillium Book Award. A Member of the Order of Canada and a Guggenheim Fellow, Barbara Gowdy lives in Toronto. Visit her website at www.barbaragowdy.com.

Other Works by Barbara Gowdy

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  Little Sister

  By Barbara Gowdy

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  Ninety-Three Million Miles Away

  By Barbara Gowdy

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  Presbyterian Crosswalk

  By Barbara Gowdy