Glowing, fresh, ironic, unforgettable, Elisabeth Harvor's stories introduce us to people who are trying to explore, often unwittingly, personal themes of existence and identity. Although the words "let me be the one" are never spoken by any of the characters, they are the words that are deeply felt. In particular moments of joy or upheaval, the silent voices speak to us with passion and wit, longing and desperation. 192.

Let Me Be the One

Literature & Fiction

Harvor, Elisabeth

United States

Harpercollins

Our Lady of All the Distances

HARPER/COLLINS

HarperCollins, Publishers

Vibrant and illuminating, All Times Have Been Modern tells the story of an education of the heart that becomes an education in the world. After Kay marries Alexander Oleski, a Polish émigré she meets the summer she turns twenty, she travels to Europe and writes a slim novel, igniting grand dreams for herself as a writer. But fallow years follow. When her marriage comes to an end in the 1980s, she decides to move to Montreal and dedicate herself to writing. But in Montreal the life she has planned for herself is interrupted when she falls in love with an architect. Liberating, unpredictable, All Times Have Been Modern is a virtuoso novel that explores the confounding ways that life and fiction collide and overlap. It also raises unsettling questions about the conflicts between love and identity, intimacy and solitude, emotional intensity and what endures.

All Times Have Been Modern

Literary

Penguin Canada

THESE SIX STORIES AND NOVELLA INTRODUCE THE READER TO AN IMMEDIATELY RECOGNIZABLE WORLD - A WORLD OF UNREMARKABLE PEOPLE AND THEIR STRUGGLE FOR COMFORT AND HAPPINESS. SHINING MOMENTS OF INSIGHT POINT US T THE COMEDY AT THE HEART OF SORROW AND INCREASE OUR KNOWLEDGE OF VERY REAL PEOPLE: AN ADOLESCENT TORN BETWEEN WORRY FOR HIS MOTHER'S OBVIOUSLY FAILING HEALTH AND HIS INCREASING NEED FOR INDEPENDENCE; A YOUNG WOMAN WHO INTRODUCES HER NEW LOVER TO HER FAMILY AND FINDS HERSELF ENGAGED WITH HER OWN MOTHER IN A COMPETITION FOR THE LOVER'S AFFECTIONS; AN ENDEARING HEALTH FREAK FRANTICALLY TRYING JUST ONE MORE CURE.

If Only We Could Drive Like This Forever

Penguin Canada (APB)

Anxious, insomniac, and adrift in her life, Claire Vornoff drives out into the country to become a patient of Declan Farrell, and an education of sorts begins. An iconoclastic practitioner of alternative medicine, Farrell is magnetic and unsettling, and Claire tries in vain to resist him. As she dreams her way through her life, all the while refusing to listen to her friend Libi's dire pronouncements, her attachment to Declan Farrell deepens, and soon she finds herself caught up in a series of unexpected and startling events. Set mainly in Ottawa and Toronto, this stunning novel charts the anatomy of obsession, capturing along the way the dilemmas of contemporary urban life. Harvor creates an erotically charged atmosphere, always alert to the pathos of love's ambiguities. Bold, original, astute, and above all deeply human, Excessive Joy Injures the Heart reveals things about us we didn't know we knew. This is truly an outstanding debut.

Excessive Joy Injures the Heart

Contemporary

Houghton, mifflin, harcourt

MCCLELLAND STEWART

Intimate and unforgettable, these eight stories play with themes of great emotional intensity: infatuation, tenderness, resentment, hope. The perceptive gallantry of a man in his early twenties leads an older woman to fall more than a little in love with him. While interviewing a woman painter who boasts about her sexual conquests, a journalist pictures the parts of the city where her husband goes to meet his mistress. A group of nurses play word games that symbolize the more lethal games played at the hospital where they are students. Sparkling, disarmingly honest, these remarkable stories evoke the thrilling and confounding predicament of being human.

Let Me be the One

Emblem Editions

Women & children

Short Stories & Anthologies

Oberon Press

Close to the Heart

Staebler, Edna

Thomas, William

Fretwell, Kathy

Chodos, Robert

Stafford, Ellen

McCartney, Timothy

Hanson, Anita

Knowles, Paul

Page, Joanne

SHIELDS, CAROL

Crusz, Rienzi

Wheatly, Patience

Rapoport, Janis

Martindale, Sheila

Parameswaran, Uma

Abram, Patricia

Morier, Roger

Knowles, Mary

English Garden Publishers

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