To be There with You
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Author: Gayla Reid
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 224
Gayla Reid grew up in New South Wales and has lived in Vancouver on and off since 1967. In To Be There With You, her debut collection of stories, Reid writes about women and men who grow up Catholic and come to adulthood during the turbulent decade in the 1960s. Moving fluidly between past and present, between Australia, Southeast Asia and Canada, they live in an uncertain world of ambivalent desire and sexual yearning, of unrequited love, betrayal and ambiguous friendships, of high ideals and the Vietnam War. In her spare, lucid prose, Reid portrays the lives of her characters with intense feeling and a remarkably strong sense of place and time. 'Gayla Reid has an exact and mordant eye for the little incongruities, vulnerabilities and self-deceptions of humankind, and she is especially knowledgeable and observant of the slippages and double-exposures experienced by the growing tribe of twentieth-century nomads for whom more than one global patch has come to be home turf. With dry, pared-down lyricism, she offers us constant epiphanies. Already justly acclaimed in Canada, her introduction to her other - and original - home turf of Australia is overdue' Janette Turner Hospital 'Reading these stories, it is easy to see why Reid has won a spate of awards. . . And it is also safe to predict that her trim, powerfully unsentimental prose will garner many more such honors'. Ottawa Citizen
Author: Gayla Reid
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 224
Gayla Reid grew up in New South Wales and has lived in Vancouver on and off since 1967. In To Be There With You, her debut collection of stories, Reid writes about women and men who grow up Catholic and come to adulthood during the turbulent decade in the 1960s. Moving fluidly between past and present, between Australia, Southeast Asia and Canada, they live in an uncertain world of ambivalent desire and sexual yearning, of unrequited love, betrayal and ambiguous friendships, of high ideals and the Vietnam War. In her spare, lucid prose, Reid portrays the lives of her characters with intense feeling and a remarkably strong sense of place and time. 'Gayla Reid has an exact and mordant eye for the little incongruities, vulnerabilities and self-deceptions of humankind, and she is especially knowledgeable and observant of the slippages and double-exposures experienced by the growing tribe of twentieth-century nomads for whom more than one global patch has come to be home turf. With dry, pared-down lyricism, she offers us constant epiphanies. Already justly acclaimed in Canada, her introduction to her other - and original - home turf of Australia is overdue' Janette Turner Hospital 'Reading these stories, it is easy to see why Reid has won a spate of awards. . . And it is also safe to predict that her trim, powerfully unsentimental prose will garner many more such honors'. Ottawa Citizen
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NB: This is a secondhand book in very good condition. See our FAQs for more information. Please note that the jacket image is indicative only. A description of our secondhand books is not always available. Please contact us if you have a question about this title.
Author: Gayla Reid
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 224
Gayla Reid grew up in New South Wales and has lived in Vancouver on and off since 1967. In To Be There With You, her debut collection of stories, Reid writes about women and men who grow up Catholic and come to adulthood during the turbulent decade in the 1960s. Moving fluidly between past and present, between Australia, Southeast Asia and Canada, they live in an uncertain world of ambivalent desire and sexual yearning, of unrequited love, betrayal and ambiguous friendships, of high ideals and the Vietnam War. In her spare, lucid prose, Reid portrays the lives of her characters with intense feeling and a remarkably strong sense of place and time. 'Gayla Reid has an exact and mordant eye for the little incongruities, vulnerabilities and self-deceptions of humankind, and she is especially knowledgeable and observant of the slippages and double-exposures experienced by the growing tribe of twentieth-century nomads for whom more than one global patch has come to be home turf. With dry, pared-down lyricism, she offers us constant epiphanies. Already justly acclaimed in Canada, her introduction to her other - and original - home turf of Australia is overdue' Janette Turner Hospital 'Reading these stories, it is easy to see why Reid has won a spate of awards. . . And it is also safe to predict that her trim, powerfully unsentimental prose will garner many more such honors'. Ottawa Citizen
Author: Gayla Reid
Format: Paperback
Number of Pages: 224
Gayla Reid grew up in New South Wales and has lived in Vancouver on and off since 1967. In To Be There With You, her debut collection of stories, Reid writes about women and men who grow up Catholic and come to adulthood during the turbulent decade in the 1960s. Moving fluidly between past and present, between Australia, Southeast Asia and Canada, they live in an uncertain world of ambivalent desire and sexual yearning, of unrequited love, betrayal and ambiguous friendships, of high ideals and the Vietnam War. In her spare, lucid prose, Reid portrays the lives of her characters with intense feeling and a remarkably strong sense of place and time. 'Gayla Reid has an exact and mordant eye for the little incongruities, vulnerabilities and self-deceptions of humankind, and she is especially knowledgeable and observant of the slippages and double-exposures experienced by the growing tribe of twentieth-century nomads for whom more than one global patch has come to be home turf. With dry, pared-down lyricism, she offers us constant epiphanies. Already justly acclaimed in Canada, her introduction to her other - and original - home turf of Australia is overdue' Janette Turner Hospital 'Reading these stories, it is easy to see why Reid has won a spate of awards. . . And it is also safe to predict that her trim, powerfully unsentimental prose will garner many more such honors'. Ottawa Citizen
To be There with You