Riptides

Richard Lemm

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ISBN: 9781894838696

Riptides

New Island Fiction

  Author:   Richard Lemm    
  Publisher:  Acorn Press

A call was sent out asking writers to submit unpublished short stories for a fiction anthology featuring newer writers with a significant P.E.I. connection. There were no boundaries for setting or genre, only a limit of 5,000 words. PEI is strong on tradition, which includes out-migration and immigration. Thus, its culture and demographics are changing, and these PEI writers both are Island-born and hail from away – Australia and Calgary, Newfoundland and Ukraine.  The result is twenty-three stories, which take the reader from a ritual gathering of PEI widows to Chernobyl in the nuclear disaster’s aftermath, from a menacing marital game of hide-and-seek through the Maritime landscape to gender clashes on an outback sheep ranch, from a religious commune in Alberta to the Enlightenment Tour bus into Quebec. Whether the characters are struggling for dear life in breaking surf, gasping for emotional air at a ladies’ candle party or fearing the Tall Tailor’s scissors, the authors demonstrate a rich variety of fictional talent and imagination emerging from what Island poet Milton Acorn called the “red tongue…In the ranged jaws of the Gulf,” and revising our perception of  “the land of Anne.”

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ISBN associated with this title: 9781894838696
Item AC0077
PublisherAcorn Press
PublisherAcorn Press
Published on July 3 2012
Language eng
Pages 293
Format Paperback
Dimensions9(in) x 6(in)
Shipping weight365(g)
Status ACTIVE TITLE
Richard Lemm is an award-winning author and poet. He has been a faculty member at the Banff School of Fine Arts, and is professor of Canadian and English Literature and Creative Writing at the University of Prince Edward Island. He is the author of several volumes of poetry, the short story collection Shape of Things to Come and edited two anthologies, Snow Softly Falling and Riptides: New Island Fiction, which won the PEI Book Award and was shortlisted for the Best Atlantic Published Book.