Journey Prize Anthology 11 : The Best of Canada's New Writers

by VARIOUS

• ISBN13: 9780771044243
• ISBN10: 0771044240
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2000-05-01
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart Ltd

Summary

For over a decade,The Journey Prize Anthologyhas been the premier showcase for Canada's finest up-and-coming literary voices. In this eleventh edition, the anthology continues its tradition of presenting the best of Canada's new writers. Among the twelve stories: Over the course of a long, hot summer with her invalid grandmother and a free-spirited babysitter, a young girl becomes increasingly aware of the complexities and ambiguities that lie on the other side of childhood. In a wistful tale about the enduring strength of family ties, a young Eskimo boy is determined to take on the responsibility of finding a new home for his infant brother. The sudden and unexpected death of his father prompts a man to embark on a meditative journey through his own peripatetic life. The pretensions and hypocrisies of a small town are comically brought to the surface during a Sunday Mass. After a fateful encounter, a defiant teenage girl and a solitary backwoodsman forge an uneasy life together amidst the wilderness of the Yukon. The progress of a married man's seduction by a student is coolly observed by his wife. In a moving exploration of the power of memory and the devastating effects of Alzheimer's, a woman tends to her now-elderly foster father. The winner of the $10,000 Journey Prize for 1999 was Alissa York for "The Back of the Bear's Mouth."

Table of Contents

In Florida	1	(19)
Mike Barnes
(from The New Quarterly)
Sunken Island	20	(12)
Libby Creelman
(from Pottersfield Portfolio)
Passion Sunday	32	(11)
Mike Finigan
(from Pottersfield Portfolio)
Territory	43	(15)
Jane Eaton Hamilton
(from This Magazine)
Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World	58	(22)
Mark Anthony Jarman
(from Queen's Quarterly)
Where the Bodies Are Kept	80	(24)
Barbara Lambert
(from The Malahat Review)
The Still	104	(9)
Linda Little
(from The Antigonish Review)
The Sitter	113	(16)
Larry Lynch
(from Storyteller)
The One With the News	129	(13)
Sandra Sabatini
(from The New Quarterly)
Brothers	142	(11)
Sharon Stearns
(from Other Voices)
Show Jumping	153	(11)
Mary Walters
(from Prairie Fire)
The Back of the Bear's Mouth	164	(8)
Alissa York
(from Prairie Fire)
About the Authors	172	(3)
About the Contributing Journals	175	(4)
List of Previous Contributing Authors	179