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  No Margins: Canadian fiction in lesbian

  Elegant tomboys, academic femmes, and small-town kisses; encounters on the road and in the bar; questions arising from an in-between culture; cane stalks, sake, fresh-cut flowers, home insemination, and hotel-room orgasms. Crossing race, culture, and gender constraints, No Margins leads the reader through the lushness of lesbian life and the vastness of the Canadian experience. No... (more)
• Auckland: The City in Literature (Our City)

  

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  Shining at the Bottom of the Sea

  by Stephen Marche

  A virtuoso performance from an emerging new literary talent who crafts a vividly drawn history of an imaginary country. In this stylistic tour de force, Stephen Marche creates the entire culture of a place called Sanjania-its national symbols, political movements, folk heroes, a group of writers dubbed "fictioneers," a national airline called Sanjair, and a rich literary history. Sanjania is an island... (more)
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  The Reader: 23: Reading and Health (Liverpool University Press - Reader)

  This is a collection of what Ali Smith has loved over the course of her reading life, in her twenties, as a teenager, a child. This is a book full of pieces from wonderful writers - Plath, Grassic Gibbon, Spark, Morgan, Grace Paley, Yeats, Atwood. But it is also full of lesser known writers about which readers will be very happy to hear, like Joseph Roth, only just gaining proper reputation status now, Clarice... (more)