New Releases by Bonnie Burnard

A runaway #1 bestseller in Canada, this richly layered first novel tells the story of the intricacies and rituals that shape a family''s life over three generations A Good House begins in 1949 in Stonebrook, Ontario, home to the Chambers family. The postwar boom and hope for the future colors every facet of life: possibilities seem limitless for Bill, his wife, Sylvia, and their three children. In the fifty years that follow, the possibilities narrow into lives, etched by character, fate, and circumstance. Sylvia''s untimely death marks her family indelibly but in ways only time will reveal. Paul''s perfect marriage yields an imperfect child. Daphne unabashedly follows an unconventional path, while Patrick discovers that his happiness requires a series of compromises. Bill confronts the onset of old age less gracefully than anticipated, and throughout, his second wife, Margaret, remains, surprisingly, the family anchor. With her remarkable ability to probe the hidden, often disturbing landscapes of love and to illuminate the complexities of human experience, Bonnie Burnard brings to her deceptively simple narrative a clarity that is both moving and profound.

In one daring act on a magnificently hot summer afternoon, a young girl challenges her mother, her upbringing, and her modesty, shifting from childhood into the murky world of adulthood. Finalist for the Giller Prize and winner of the Saskatchewan Book of the Year, Casino & Other Stories pulls us beneath the surface of convention into uncharted and often unpredictable emotional territory. Wry and intelligent, humane and touching, Bonnie Burnard’s stories seduce and then surprise us with a sense of the familiar finally understood, and of passion recognized. HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short stories collection to build your digital library.

During the idyllic nights of summer, locals and summer guests gather to dance out at the lake, until the night everything changes. Finalist for the Giller Prize and winner of the Saskatchewan Book of the Year, Casino & Other Stories pulls us beneath the surface of convention into uncharted and often unpredictable emotional territory. Wry and intelligent, humane and touching, Bonnie Burnard’s stories seduce and then surprise us with a sense of the familiar finally understood, and of passion recognized. HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short stories collection to build your digital library.

A family goes through the motions of a regular day as a single mother contemplates the undercurrents of her life while reading the morning newspaper. Finalist for the Giller Prize and winner of the Saskatchewan Book of the Year, Casino & Other Stories pulls us beneath the surface of convention into uncharted and often unpredictable emotional territory. Wry and intelligent, humane and touching, Bonnie Burnard’s stories seduce and then surprise us with a sense of the familiar finally understood, and of passion recognized. HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short stories collection to build your digital library.

Finding love after divorce is never easy, and it took John ages to find Marion. But she’s holding back, and when he finds out why, the choice he makes will be the making of him as a man. Finalist for the Giller Prize and winner of the Saskatchewan Book of the Year, Casino & Other Stories pulls us beneath the surface of convention into uncharted and often unpredictable emotional territory. Wry and intelligent, humane and touching, Bonnie Burnard’s stories seduce and then surprise us with a sense of the familiar finally understood, and of passion recognized. HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short stories collection to build your digital library.

A woman and her daughter make a trip into town to attend lunch with Queen Elizabeth II. A last-minute detour to see the local sites on the way home throws their lives into focus in ways neither of them expected. Finalist for the Giller Prize and winner of the Saskatchewan Book of the Year, Casino & Other Stories pulls us beneath the surface of convention into uncharted and often unpredictable emotional territory. Wry and intelligent, humane and touching, Bonnie Burnard’s stories seduce and then surprise us with a sense of the familiar finally understood, and of passion recognized. HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short stories collection to build your digital library.

What’s the inherent meaning in the objects that decorate our lives? As Joan receives a package from her father by way of her late great-aunt, we contemplate a life lived through its possessions—the things acquired and passed down and that hold the stories of lives swept away by illness or death. Finalist for the Giller Prize and winner of the Saskatchewan Book of the Year, Casino & Other Stories pulls us beneath the surface of convention into uncharted and often unpredictable emotional territory. Wry and intelligent, humane and touching, Bonnie Burnard’s stories seduce and then surprise us with a sense of the familiar finally understood, and of passion recognized. HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short stories collection to build your digital library.

Heather, a business woman away at a conference, runs into a past fling, Tom, and must decide whether or not she’ll open the door to her hotel room to him once again. Finalist for the Giller Prize and winner of the Saskatchewan Book of the Year, Casino & Other Stories pulls us beneath the surface of convention into uncharted and often unpredictable emotional territory. Wry and intelligent, humane and touching, Bonnie Burnard’s stories seduce and then surprise us with a sense of the familiar finally understood, and of passion recognized. HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short stories collection to build your digital library.

Told in micro-short instances of each man’s life, Bonnie Burnard skillfully unravels their various perspectives—from the photographer who took the picture, to a broker at the Vancouver Stock Exchange—and their responses to the vivid image are quite different than one might imagine. Finalist for the Giller Prize and winner of the Saskatchewan Book of the Year, Casino & Other Stories pulls us beneath the surface of convention into uncharted and often unpredictable emotional territory. Wry and intelligent, humane and touching, Bonnie Burnard’s stories seduce and then surprise us with a sense of the familiar finally understood, and of passion recognized. HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short stories collection to build your digital library.

As Patsy Flater prepares for her baptism, she uncovers a complex, ever-evolving relationship between God and the fickle expectations of youth. Finalist for the Giller Prize and winner of the Saskatchewan Book of the Year, Casino & Other Stories pulls us beneath the surface of convention into uncharted and often unpredictable emotional territory. Wry and intelligent, humane and touching, Bonnie Burnard’s stories seduce and then surprise us with a sense of the familiar finally understood, and of passion recognized. HarperCollins brings great works of literature to life in digital format, upholding the highest standards in ebook production and celebrating reading in all its forms. Look for more titles in the HarperCollins short stories collection to build your digital library.

Casino & Other Stories is Burnard’s second collection of short stories, nominated for a Giller Prize and the winner of the Saskatchewan Best Book of the Year Award. Pulling us beneath the surface of convention into uncharted and often unpredictable emotional territory, Burnard makes the unremarkable seem remarkable, and the unspoken seem significant. These are stories of the frailty of love, the tension of family life, the uncertain moments in a young woman’s life. Wry and intelligent, humane and touching, Bonnie Burnard’s stories seduce and then surprise us with a sense of the familiar finally understood, and of passion recognized.

A phone call in the night, an unexpected diagnosis, a shocking revelation - suddenly life can change forever. ''It''s been here, in this bedroom, with Jack and without him, that she has found her only privacy. But now she''s surrounded, day and night, by care. Yesterday she told Colleen and Jude that her dying has changed people more than anything else she can think of, and she watched their fixed smiles as it dawned on them that this is what she wants. She wants them to keep up with her. What she is finally beginning to understand is that all those years of talk, the pleasure of idiocy, the bouts of worry, the complaints, the humouring of memory, even the offhand, underdone affection, these are the least of it. The best of it is being known. Known over time.

De retour chez lui à la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale, Bill Chambers ne songe qu''à oublier ses blessures. Dans la confortable maison canadienne où il vit entouré de son épouse et de leurs trois enfants, il envisage l''avenir avec optimisme. Mais le décès brutal de sa femme va se charger de lui rappeler que le bonheur est une chose fragile. Sur trois générations, le roman retrace le destin de cette famille, au fil d''années ponctuées par les mariages, naissances, enterrements et les retrouvailles au moment des vacances. Le temps met à l''épreuve sentiments et promesses, d''inévitables mensonges masquent les failles de chacun et l''amour lui-même pose ses propres pièges. Malgré tout, la maison familiale demeure ce point d''ancrage vers lequel chacun finit par revenir.

Em ''Casa de família'', Bonnie Burnard narra as dificuldades, tragédias, frustrações, alegrias e sucessos da família Chambers, em um período de cinco décadas. O livro é a reconstrução precisa da existência diária de pessoas comuns enredadas nas circunstâncias adversas da vida. Através de rituais familiares, como casamento, nascimento, morte, as três gerações se entrelaçam, se afastam e se reúnem novamente.

La historia de los Chambers, una familia como todas, comienza en 1952 cuando Bill, Sylvia y sus tres hijos van a vivir a la casa que esta cerca del arroyo. Es una casa comuny corriente, pero con cimientos solidos: una "buena" casa en todo sentido. Es la epocadel boom de posguerra, la fe en el futuro colorea todas las facetas de la vida y lasposibilidades parecen ilimitadas.En los cincuenta anos que siguen, las circunstancias, el destino y la personalidad de losdistintos miembros de la familia van restringiendo esas posibilidades que, en unmomento, se pensaron infinitas. La prematura muerte de Sylvia marca a la familia deun modo indeleble. El matrimonio perfecto de Paul se ve ensombrecido por la llegadade un hijo con problemas. Daphne se empena en transitar un camino no convencional; Patrick descubre que su felicidad requiere de una serie de compromisos. Bill enfrentasus ultimos anos con serios trastornos de salud, pero su segunda esposa, Margaret, sorprendentemente se convierte en la fuerza que mantiene unida a la familia.

Premier recueil (1989) d''une auteure ontarienne ayant longtemps vécu en Saskatchewan, et que la critique associe à Alice Munro. Quatorze nouvelles dont les héroïnes sont le plus souvent des femmes de caractère entre quarante et soixante ans, avec une famille, des épreuses, des frustrations et des épanouissements. Parmi les thèmes abordés on peut relever la peur de la violence, la protection des enfants (cf. "le rémouleur"), le deuil d''un être aimé, les relations hommes-femmes, etc. P. Navarro a bien noté que ces héroïnes se remettent en question à l''occasion d''une expérience dramatique ou éprouvante, et que l''auteure allie finesse et profondeur. Recommandé.