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Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? (First Edition, UCP)

Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? (First Edition, UCP)

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Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? (First Edition, UCP)

by Gasco, Elyse

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Near Fine Plus.
ISBN 10
0771032978
ISBN 13
9780771032974
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Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1999. Canadian author's first book, a collection of stories; short-listed for the Governor General's Award for Fiction. The title story was awarded the $10,000 Journey Prize for the most accomplished work originally published in a Canadian literary journal. 238 pages.. First Edition. Trade Paperback. Near Fine Plus.. Uncorrected Proof.

Synopsis

Elyse Gasco was born in Montreal. She received a B.A. in Creative Writing from Concordia University and an M.A. in Creative Writing from New York University. Her work has appeared in literary magazines in the U.S. and in Canada, including The Little Magazine, Western Humanities Review, Canadian Fiction Magazine, PRISM international, Grain, and The Malahat Review. In 1996, the title story from this collection was awarded the $10,000 Journey Prize for the most accomplished work originally published in a Canadian literary journal, and anthologized in The Journey Prize Anthology. Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? was the winner of the QSPELL Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and the QSPELL/FEWQ First Book Award, and a finalist for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, and the Pearson Canada Reader’s Choice Award at The Word on the Street. It was also a New York Times Book Review Notable Book. Elyse Gasco lives in Montreal with her husband and their two daughters. She is at work on her next book of fiction.

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Seller
Purpora Books CA (CA)
Seller's Inventory #
21408
Title
Can You Wave Bye Bye, Baby? (First Edition, UCP)
Author
Gasco, Elyse
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine Plus.
Edition
First Edition
ISBN 10
0771032978
ISBN 13
9780771032974
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Place of Publication
Toronto
Date Published
1999

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