{"product_id":"all-the-voices-cry-paperback","title":"All the Voices Cry - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eAlice Petersen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWINNER OF THE QWF FIRST BOOK PRIZE \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Alice Petersen writes as eloquently about the natural world as she does about the world of human emotion and desire. This is a wise and impressive collection of stories.\"--David Bezmozgis, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Free World\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlice Petersen's \u003ci\u003eAll the Voices Cry\u003c\/i\u003e is masterful and potent--incredibly satisfying for a reader.\u003cbr\u003e-- Kathleen Winter, author of \u003ci\u003eAnnabel\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn academic's wife, struggling to keep up with her husband's quest to find a long-dead author's Tahitian love-garden, realizes that her own idea of paradise no longer includes her husband. An architect dreams of slender redheads, Champlain's astrolabe, and a brush with mortality--and finds at least the latter at \u003ci\u003eDanseuses 7 Jours\u003c\/i\u003e. An elderly man boards a trans-Pacific flight in an attempt to elude the prediction of a psychic, only to understand too late how the prophecy has shaped his actions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAll the Voices Cry\u003c\/i\u003e, modern life collides with all the old pushes and pulls: city and country, the global and the local, the ideal and the real. Petersen's characters chase the mirage of escape, and are brought up hard by reality. This is a book rooted in landscape, tangled in the brambles of personal history, and it introduces in Alice Petersen a wondrous new voice that is yours to discover. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlice Petersen \u003c\/b\u003eis a writer and critic whose work has been shortlisted for numerous Canadian prizes and awards. She was born in New Zealand and now lives and works in Montreal, Quebec.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlice Petersen is a writer and critic whose work has been shortlisted for the Journey Prize, the Canada Broadcast Corporation Literary Awards, and the Writers' Union of Canada Short Story Competition. She was born in New Zealand and now lives and works in Montréal.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 158\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 8.1 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 22, 2012\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51769995788576,"sku":"9781926845524","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b2fd8f8b83cd88cbfdae703169865e12.webp?v=1780362063","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/all-the-voices-cry-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}