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Sightlines
Winner, Saskatchewan Fiction Award/Saskatoon Book Award; Saskatchewan Book Awards
The thirteen stories in this debut short fiction collection weave together the lives of a cast of characters from the small community of Flat Hill over a thirty-year period from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Leona Theis uses flashbacks within stories, revisits characters at more than one time in their lives, and has main characters in one story appear as bit players in another, all to build a complex portrait of a group of people who share a single point of departure - Flat Hill. Relationships and friendships thrive or wither, children grow up and move away to the city, seniors pass on, and time moves everyone relentlessly forward - whether they want to go or not.
"No matter how accomplished and subtly rewarding each story in Sightlines is, what is finally most remarkable about this book is how the individual stories fit together, demonstrating that in Leona Theis's case the whole really is far greater than the sum of its parts. A very promising debut by a very talented writer." -Guy Vanderhaeghe
The thirteen stories in this debut short fiction collection weave together the lives of a cast of characters from the small community of Flat Hill over a thirty-year period from the 1960s to the 1990s.
Leona Theis uses flashbacks within stories, revisits characters at more than one time in their lives, and has main characters in one story appear as bit players in another, all to build a complex portrait of a group of people who share a single point of departure - Flat Hill. Relationships and friendships thrive or wither, children grow up and move away to the city, seniors pass on, and time moves everyone relentlessly forward - whether they want to go or not.
"No matter how accomplished and subtly rewarding each story in Sightlines is, what is finally most remarkable about this book is how the individual stories fit together, demonstrating that in Leona Theis's case the whole really is far greater than the sum of its parts. A very promising debut by a very talented writer." -Guy Vanderhaeghe
274 pages, Paperback
First published April 11, 2000
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December 20, 2012
Anyone who grew up in a small town can identify with these award winning stories, particularly if it was small town Saskatchewan in the '50s and 60's. The stories and dress coming of age, the ties that connect us to the people and places of our childhood and the forces that pull us away from them.
Okay I admit that I'm related to the author, but many non-relatives have given this book full marks.
Okay I admit that I'm related to the author, but many non-relatives have given this book full marks.
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