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Elizabeth Ruth

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Fiction, Nonfiction, Gay and Lesbian

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Elizabeth Ruth is a writer, creative writing instructor and mother living in Toronto, Canada. Her first novel, Ten Good Seconds of Silence was a finalist for the Writers' Trust of Canada Fiction Prize, the Amazon.ca Best First Novel Award and the City of Toronto Book Award. Her critically acclaimed second novel, Smoke, was chosen for the One Book One Community program and named as a top-ten book of the year by NOW magazine. Elizabeth's third novel - Matadora, featuring a female bullfighter in 1930's Spain and Mexico -was published in April, 2013. Matadora is a novel about ambition, passion, politics, and art. NOW Magazine picked Matadora as #3 on their 2013 Must Read Books list. The National Post gave Matadora a stellar review: http://arts. ...more

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Average rating: 3.61 · 518 ratings · 91 reviews · 15 distinct works • Similar authors
Semi-Detached
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Matadora
3.79 avg rating — 134 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions
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Ten Good Seconds of Silence
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Smoke
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Bent on Writing: Contempora...
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Love You to Death
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