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Praise for JULIET IN AUGUST
“That two people can share a house and not know they love one
another; that a note in a pocket with a woman’s name on it can
crack decades of trust—this is a novel about the isolation that
we hold secret within ourselves; that makes us envy the true
hearts of horses and dogs. This novel shivers with nervous life.
It tiptoes the fine edge between joy and weeping.”
—Fred stenson, author of Lightning
“This is powerful writing—gut-wrenching and inspiring. Its drama
is quiet, but in the end you hardly know what hit you.”
—The governor general’s award jury
Juliet, Saskatchewan, is a blink-and-you-miss-it kind of
town—a dusty oasis on the edge of the Little Snake sand
hills. It’s easy to believe that nothing of consequence
takes place there.
But the hills vibrate with life, and the town’s heart
beats in the rich and overlapping stories of its people:
the rancher afraid to accept responsibility for the land his adoptive
parents left him; the bank manager grappling with a sudden
understanding of his own inadequacy; a shy couple, well beyond
middle age, struggling with the recognition of their feelings
for each other. And somewhere, lost in the sand, a camel named
Antoinette.
DIaNNe WarreN
is the author of short stories and plays. This
is her first novel. It won the 2010 Governor
General’s Award for fiction, one of Canada’s
most prestigious literary prizes (published
under the title Cool Water). Warren lives in
Regina, Saskatchewan.
July
Hardcover
ISBN 978-0-399-15799-8
$25.95/NCR
Fiction
6" x 9"
336 pages
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