Gordon Rankin Jr., dit " Rank ", a tiré le mauvais numéro. Adolescent hagard, harcelé par des questions existentielles noyées dans l'alcool, sa carrure de gorille lui vaut d'endosser le rôle de la brute, à contrecoeur. Jusqu'à la rixe de trop... Mais quand, vingt ans après, un ancien camarade d'université publie un roman dont il est la cible, le passé lui saute à la gorge. Trahi par ce portrait menteur, Rank livre à son adversaire sa version des faits, dans une correspondance à sens unique tour à tour furieuse, hilare, déchirante. Avec une rare virtuosité, Lynn Coady fait de cette mise à nue épistolaire un jeu de miroirs troublant pour mieux passer au crible de la fiction la mythologie du moi. Subtil, irrésistible, et brillant.

To mark Goose Lane Editions's 60th anniversary, the editors at Goose Lane selected six tiny perfect stories for your reading pleasure. Authored by some of Canada's finest writers, they come from the sweep of Goose Lane's publishing history. Each story is part of this collection or they may be purchased individually in eBook singles. Here's what you can expect to find in this sexagenarian sextet: ALDEN NOWLAN's "A Boy's Life of Napoleon," a brilliant piece of short fiction adapted from Nowlan's first novel, The Wanton Troopers, written in 1960, but published posthumously in 1988. The beguiling "Woman Gored by Bison Lives" from DOUGLAS GLOVER's 1991 GG-nominated story collection, A Guide to Animal Behaviour. Giller Prize-winner LYNN COADY's unforgettable Christmas story "The Three Marys," adapted from her award-winning debut novel, Strange Heaven, published in 1993. Commonwealth Prize winner SHAUNA SINGH BALDWIN's glittering story "Simran" from her 1996 debut collection, English Lessons and Other Stories. KATHRYN KUITENBROUWER's haunting "What Had Become of Us," from her 2003 debut book of short fiction, Way Up. The extraordinary "Knife Party" from Knife Party at the Hotel Europa by MARK ANTHONY JARMAN, published in the spring of 2015.

Giller Prize-winner Lynn Coady's unforgettable Christmas story "The Three Marys," is adapted from her award-winning debut novel, Strange Heaven, published in 1993. Published on the occasion of Goose Lane Editions's 60th anniversary, it is also a part of the six@sixty collection.

Winner, Atlantic Independent Booksellers Choice Award Winner, Canadian Authors Association Air Canada Award Winner, Dartmouth Book Award Winner, Thomas Head Raddall Award Finalist, Governor General's Award for FictionShe's depressed, they say. Apathetic. Bridget Murphy, almost eighteen, has had it with her zany family. When she is transferred to the psych ward after giving birth and putting her baby up for adoption, it is a welcome relief - even with the manic ranting of a teen stripper and come-ons of another delusional inmate. But this oasis of relative calm is short-lived. Christmas is coming, and Uncle Albert arrives to whisk her back to the bedlam of home and the booze-soaked social life that got her into trouble in the first place. Her grandmother raves from her bed, banging the wall with a bedpan through a litany of profanities. Her father curses while her mother tries to keep the lid on developmentally delayed Uncle Rollie. The baby's father wants to sue her, and her friends don't get that she's changed.