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Sweet Affliction
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ISBN13: 9781926743431
Publisher: Invisible Books
Published: Apr 15 2014
Pages: 200
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.55 Width: 4.96 Depth: 7.87
Language: English
One of the CBC's Best Books of the Year.
A pregnancy test is taken at a wedding, a bad diagnosis leads a
patient to a surprising outlook, and a civic holiday becomes a dystopian
nightmare. By turns caustic, tender, and creepily hilarious, Sweet
Affliction reveals the frailties, perversions, and resilience of Anna
collector of cigarette butts, and a dying pet rat populate fifteen
sharply-observed and darkly funny stories that suck at the marrow of
modern life.
It's a joy to read.--The Globe & Mail
Anna Leventhal [is] one of Montreal's quietly beloved literary personalities.--Cult MTL
A subtle yet powerful debut.--Inaudible
Sweet Affliction's reviews have been positive across the board, and
rightly so. It's a collection that reads more like a mid-career
statement than a tentative debut.--Montreal Gazette
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