About the Book

A woman recounts her experience of being raped twenty-five years ago and explores the event’s profound influence on her life. She examines her feelings of helpless acceptance, self-blame, and denial, exposing and challenging her society’s expectations of how she should react to this tragic experience.

Real Life contains ten perfectly formed stories—singular moments of emotional intensity about the inner lives we all lead. Each story presents the moments of “real life” that all of us experience, stripping away defences to reveal truths of pain, joy, anger, fear, or hope.

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Product Details

• ISBN: 9781443421560
• ISBN 10: 1443421561
• Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
• On Sale: 06/18/2013
• Pages: 25
• List Price:0.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : FICTION / General

Sharon Butala

Biography

SHARON BUTALA is an award-winning and bestselling author of both fiction and non-fiction. Her classic book The Perfection of the Morning was a #1 bestseller and a finalist for the Governor General’s Award. Fever, a short story collection, won the 1992 Authors’ Award for Paperback Fiction and was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for best book (Canada and Caribbean region). Butala is a recipient of the Marian Engel Award, the Saskatchewan Order of Merit, and the 2012 Cheryl and Henry Kloppenburg Award for Literary Excellence. In 2002 she became an Officer of the Order of Canada. She lives in Calgary, Alberta.

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  Discord

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  Dark Of The Moon

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  Domestici

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