Toronto, Ontario, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 2003. Trade paperback Uncorrected Proofs, 372 pages ("This reading copy is made from uncorrected galleys---"); inscribed and signed by Hay on the half title page; just a hint of shelf wear, page 13/14 corner creased, otherwise appears unread.. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Very Good +. Advanced Reading Copy (ARC).

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Elizabeth Hay is the author of two highly acclaimed, bestselling novels. Her first novel, A Student of Weather (2000), won the CAA MOSAID Technologies Inc. Award for Fiction and the TORGI Award, and was a finalist for The Giller Prize, the Ottawa Book Award, and the Pearson Canada Reader’s Choice Award at The Word on the Street. Her most recent novel, Garbo Laughs (2003), won the Ottawa Book Award and was shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award. She is also the author of Crossing the Snow Line (stories, 1989); The Only Snow in Havana (non-fiction, 1992); Captivity Tales: Canadians in New York (non-fiction, 1993), and Small Change (stories, 1997), which was a finalist for the Governor General’s Award, the Trillium Award, and the Rogers Communications Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Her stories have been anthologized in Best Canadian Stories , The Journey Prize Anthology , and The Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women , edited by Rosemary Sullivan. She has won a National Magazine Award Gold Medal for Fiction and a Western Magazine Award for Fiction. In 2002, she received the prestigious Marian Engel Award. Elizabeth Hay lives in Ottawa.

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Seller: Eric James (CA)
Seller's Inventory #: 028006
Title: Garbo Laughs [Uncorrected Proofs]
Author: Hay, Elizabeth
Format/Binding: Paperback
Book Condition: Used - Very Good +
ISBN 10: 0771037929
ISBN 13: 9780771037924
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Place of Publication: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Date Published: 2003
Keywords: FICTION CANADIAN Literature
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