Elizabeth and after / Matt Cohen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cohen, Matt, 1942-1999.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ontario--Fiction.

Ontario.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

370 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First U.S. edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Picador USA, 2000.

Summary:

Elizabeth And After Tells The Touching And resonant story of a man who returns to the small town of West Gull, Ontario, to mend his family's legacy of alcohol and violence, to reconnect with his young daughter, and to reconcile with the spirit of his beautiful mother, killed several years earlier in a tragic accident. The novel wraps us up in the lives of Carl and his family, and the other 683 residents of this snowy Canadian hamlet, as they all struggle to recognize the vagaries of the past and their own power to correct the present. Reminiscent of Russell Banks' The Sweet Here -- after, Annie Proulx's The Shipping News, and Howard Norman's The Bird Artist, Elizabeth and After places us into the quietly forsaken worlds of Northern small -- town life, and imparts the difficult truths that face us all.

Notes:

Originally published: Toronto : A.A. Knopf Canada, 1999.

Recipient of the 1999 Governor General's Award for Fiction (Canada).

ISBN:

0312261519

OCLC:

44614275