Description
One of the Globe and Mail's "Sixty-Two Books to Read This Fall" - Listed in CBC Books Fiction to Read in Fall 2023 - A Miramichi Reader Best Book of 2023
"A writer to watch."--Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
A girl receives a bedtime visit from a drunken party guest, who will haunt her fantasies for years. A young mother discovers underneath the wallpaper a striking portrait that awakens inconvenient desires. A divorced man distracts himself from the mess he's made by flirting with a stranger. These intimate, immersive stories explore life's watershed moments, in which seemingly insignificant details--a pot of hyacinths, a freshly painted yellow wall--and the most chance of encounters come to exert a tidal pull. Set in the swinging sixties and each decade since, Cocktail reveals the schism between the lives we build up around us and our deepest hidden selves.
Author: Lisa Alward
Publisher: Biblioasis
Published: 09/12/2023
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 7.70h x 4.90w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781771965620
ISBN10: 1771965622
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Feminist
About the Author
Lisa Alward grew up in Halifax during the 1960s and 70s. She worked in literary publishing in Toronto in the 80s and early 90s and began writing fiction at 50. Her stories have appeared in Best Canadian Stories and The Journey Prize Stories as well as literary journals such as The New Quarterly and The Fiddlehead. She lives with her husband, John, near the Wolastoq River in Fredericton.