Late Breaking
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- $17.99
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
FINALIST FOR THE 2019 GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD
NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 TRILLIUM BOOK AWARD
NOMINATED FOR THE TORONTO BOOK AWARD
AS HEARD ON CBC'S THE NEXT CHAPTER WITH SHELAGH ROGERS
A GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018
A QUILL & QUIRE BEST BOOK OF 2018
A 49TH SHELF EDITOR'S PICK
Inspired by the work of Alex Colville, the linked stories in K.D. Miller’s Late Breaking form a suite of portraits that evoke the paintings’ looming atmospheres and uncanny stillness while traveling deeply into their subjects’ vividly imagined lives. Throughout, the collection bears witness to the vulnerability of the elder heart, revealing that love, sex, and heartbreak are not only the domain of the young, and deftly rendering the conflicts that divide us and the ties that bind. Husbands and wives struggle to communicate, romantic relationships flare and falter, parents and children navigate their complicated feelings, and older women struggle with diminishing status in a youth-obsessed culture while the threat of violence haunts young women and girls. Yet as the stories intersect and the characters’ lives are increasingly entwined, fear, guilt, estrangement, and the fact of death are met by courage, redemption and the fragile beauty of love, in all its myriad guises. Brilliantly observed, both tender and tortured, and in no way afraid of the dark, these stories confirm K.D. Miller as one of our best and bravest writers.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
K.D. Miller (All Saints) found inspiration in the paintings of fellow Canadian Alex Colville. Her Giller Prize–nominated short story collection Late Breaking follows an interconnected cast of characters through the ebbs and flows of their relationships. An ageing man and his dog, a writer experiencing her first professional success and deepest heartbreak at once, a man and an octopus at the Toronto Aquarium—with these characters and others, Miller examines the fundamental wants and needs that bind us all. Her stories are evocative, tender, and often heartbreaking. They’re also deeply relatable, rooted in a kind, clear-eyed view of what it means to be human.
