About the Book

"Everyone lives on Brunswick Avenue sooner or later." So begins Fables of Brunswick Avenue, Katherine Govier’s first collection of short stories, which found her an audience that has expanded with each subsequent book.

The 16 stories in this collection capture turning points in the lives of characters who have migrated to the city, and ended up -- as everyone inevitably does -- on Brunswick Avenue. A restaurateur in "The Garden" collects look-alike waitresses but discovers that, as one, they resist his advances. In "Responding to Pain," a woman rescues a suicidal friend, only to realize that she is angry enough to kill her. And in "Brunswick Avenue," a writer comes to understand that her neighbourhood is provisional, and in its draft stages, like her life. Infused with Govier’s magical ability to conjure time and place, Fables of Brunswick Avenue is about starting out, and starting over.

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Product Details

• ISBN: 9781554689644
• ISBN 10: 1554689643
• Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
• On Sale: 06/01/2010
• Pages: 272
• List Price:11.99 CAD
• BISAC1 : FICTION / Literary

Katherine Govier

Biography

Katherine Govier’s most recent novel, The Ghost Brush, was published in the United States as The Printmaker’s Daughter, and in translation in Romania, Spain, Quebec, and Japan. Her novel Creation was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. She has won the Marian Engel Award and the Toronto Book Award, and has twice been nominated for the Trillium Book Award. The author of twelve previous books, Katherine Govier divides her time between Toronto, Ontario, and Canmore, Alberta.

Other Works by Katherine Govier

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  The Three Sisters Bar and Hotel

  By Katherine Govier

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  Katherine Govier Three-Book Bundle

  By Katherine Govier

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  The Ghost Brush

  By Katherine Govier