Quarry

by Catherine Graham

Overview

Set in southern Ontario during the 1980s, acclaimed poet Catherine Graham's debut novel is as layered as the open-pit mine for which it is named. Only child Caitlin Maharg lives with her parents beside a water-filled limestone quarry, but her idyllic upbringing collapses when she learns her mother is dying. After a series of family secrets emerges, she must confront the past and face her uncertain future. Lyrically charged, jewelled with images, and at times darkly comic, Graham's prose weaves a mysterious, hypnotic tale of loss, deception, and the courage to swim the depths of life alone.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781989496473
Publisher:	Wolsak & Wynn Publishers, Limited
Publication date:	01/01/2017
Sold by:	PUBLISHDRIVE KFT
Format:	eBook
Pages:	263
Sales rank:	926,436
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Catherine Graham is a poet, novelist and creative writing instructor. She is the author of six acclaimed poetry collections, including The Celery Forest, a CBC Best Book of the Year and finalist for the Fred Cogswell Award for Excellence in Poetry. Her Red Hair Rises with the Wings of Insects was a finalist for the Raymond Souster Award and CAA Poetry Award and her debut novel, Quarry, was a finalist for the Sarton Women’s Book Award for Contemporary Fiction and Fred Kerner Book Award and won the Miramichi Reader’s “The Very Best!” Book Award and an Independent Publisher Book Awards’ gold medal for Fiction. She holds an MA in creative writing from Lancaster University (UK). Her poems have been translated into Greek, Serbo-Croatian, Bangla, Chinese and Spanish and have appeared internationally. She teaches creative writing at the University of Toronto where she won an Excellence in Teaching Award. A previous winner of the Toronto International Festival of Authors’ Poetry NOW competition, she currently leads their monthly book club.

What People are Saying About This

Ken Murray

"Quarry flows through the legacies and layers of grief, and emerges into the joy and shock of discovery. It is a wonderful book."

Grace O'Connell

“Written in gorgeous, focused language, Quarry pulls us effortlessly through a forest of half-truths and family myths where we find how love can beget disaster and how secrets can give birth to isolation. This book sweeps forward, turning expectations inside out, giving us relationships that feel so real you'll flinch, and revelations both startling and inevitable. As we peel back the layers of Caitlin's family, Caitlin herself is acquiring layers, growing from a raw, untested girl to a woman who readers will cheer for.”

Editorial Reviews

"Quarry is a drop-dead gorgeous piece of writing, a novel that gave me goose bumps, even on a second reading. Search it out and read it; gentle, tough, and a superb work of fiction."

The Sun Times (Owen Sound)

"[Graham] draws us deep into a world that is both ordinary and haunted – a world infused with mysterious rifts in the rhythms of life and thick with signs of encroaching death."

Toronto Star - Nancy Wigston

“An accomplished poet, Graham makes her fiction debut with the luminous Quarry, a delicate coming-of-age story with an engaging protagonist. [Her] lyrical writing shines through ... spinning beautiful contemplative images out of simple moments. With Quarry, she has mined her personal experience of loss to produce a strong debut novel—mysterious, rich, and full of quiet insights about family dynamics.”

Room Magazine - Alissa McArthur

"Quarry is a drop-dead gorgeous piece of writing, a novel that gave me goose bumps, even on a second reading. Search it out and read it; gentle, tough, and a superb work of fiction."

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"[Graham] draws us deep into a world that is both ordinary and haunted – a world infused with mysterious rifts in the rhythms of life and thick with signs of encroaching death." &ndash Toronto Star

"Written in gorgeous, focused language, this book sweeps forward, turning expectations inside out, giving us relationships that feel so real you'll flinch, and revelations both startling and inevitable." – Grace O'Connell, author of Magnified World

"Quarry flows through the legacies and layers of grief, and emerges into the joy and shock of discovery. It is a wonderful book." – Ken Murray, author of Eulogy

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