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Tricia Dower

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TRICIA DOWER was a business executive before reinventing herself as a writer in 2002. Her Shakespeare-inspired story collection, Silent Girl (Inanna 2008) was nominated for the Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award and the George Ryga Award for Social Awareness in Literature. Herizons magazine called it "ambitious and powerful." Her first novel, Stony River (Penguin Canada 2012 and Leapfrog Press 2016) was shortlisted for the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction. The Globe and Mail wrote, "...Dower is a masterful storyteller." At the publication of her second novel, Becoming Lin (Caitlin Press 2016), the Vancouver Sun wrote, "Some of the most powerful and eloquent Canadian novelists of the 20th and 21st centuries...includ ...more

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Average rating: 3.79 · 320 ratings · 90 reviews · 5 distinct works

	Stony River 3.68 avg rating — 250 ratings — published 2012 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Becoming Lin 4.11 avg rating — 37 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Silent Girl (Inanna Poetry & Fiction Series) 4.21 avg rating — 29 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Deep Dark Waves 4.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Not sure I can finish this book. So disappointed. I find it contrived and corny. Hard to reconcile with all the rave reviews.
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This book started off well, sagged in the middle and fizzled at the end. Not the quality I expect from Kate Atkinson. June 11, 2025: Just read it again, having forgotten I read it! I thought it felt familiar. Time to put me away. (Incidentally, I feel ...more
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3.5 stars, actually. Compelling for its history and immersion in a time and place unfamiliar to me. Oh, the smugness of those colonials. Inspired me to learn more about W. Somerset Maughn and Sun Hat Sen, as well. So much I didn't (and don't) know. ...more
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Tricia Dower and 100 other people liked Meike's review of The House of Doors: "Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2023 Listen, I just can't with this Booker longlist: Sure, this is a decent historical novel based on real events, but it's far, far removed from any aesthetic decision that would indicate that postmodernism ever happen" Read more of this review »
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