Journey Prize Anthology 12 Short Fiction from the Best of Canada's New Writers

Find out what's happening, in this twelfth edition of Canada's most celebrated anthology of new writers. Among the stories: Amway recruiters, garage sales, manicured lawns, and other features of suburban life are dispassionately observed by an abandoned yak. A financial analyst with the uncanny ability to read numbers is confronted with a moral dilemma when he is expected to exploit his talent to manipulate a client at the racetrack. When a young girl is sent for by her long-absent father, she is awakened to certain harsh realities by her step-mother, in a fascinating tale set in a nineteenth-century Russian shtetl. The undercurrents that run beneath a surgeon's life of perfect calm begin to surface when he finds himself believing he can communicate with a comatose patient. In a spellbinding journey through the intricate world of collecting, an antique dealer learns something new about the nature of desire when she receives an unexpected gift. The winner of the $10,000 Journey prize for the year 2000 was Timothy Taylor for "Doves of Townsend."Bush, Catherine is the author of 'Journey Prize Anthology 12 Short Fiction from the Best of Canada's New Writers' with ISBN 9780771044236 and ISBN 0771044232.