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The Opening Sky

The Opening Sky

The Opening Sky Paperback - 2014

by Joan Thomas

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  • Title The Opening Sky
  • Author Joan Thomas
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition 1st Edition
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, 0ntario
  • Publication date 2014-08-19
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GOR006937060
  • ISBN 9780771083921 / 0771083920
  • Category Fiction - General
  • Library of Congress subjects Canadian fiction, Families
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2019401036
  • Dewey Decimal Code 813.6
  • Quantity available 1

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Reader reviews for The Opening Sky

From the publisher

JOAN THOMAS's debut novel, Reading By Lightning, won the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book (Canada/Caribbean) and the Amazon.ca Best First Novel Award, and was longlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Award. Her second, Curiosity, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Award, and was a Quill & Quire Book of the Year. Before writing fiction, Joan was a contributing reviewer for the Globe and Mail. Joan lives in Winnipeg. Visit her at www.joanthomas.ca.

Media reviews

The Opening Sky is a sharply observed, unflinching portrait of the middle class in the 21st century. A beautiful, harrowing book.”
– Don Gillmor, author of the bestselling Mount Pleasant
 
The Opening Sky is a marvel. In rich, meticulously woven prose, Joan Thomas confronts the painful paradoxes at the heart of a family, and reports back on both the darkness and the light. This is a contemporary narrative, fully-wired with eco-anxiety and intergenerational strife, yet somehow a sense of the mythic pervades the tale. . . . I loved this book. It thrilled me with its fierce portrayal of how we strive and fail and sometimes even manage to love.” 
- Alissa York, award-winning author of Fauna

About the author

Joan Thomas s debut novel, Reading By Lightning, won the Commonwealth Prize for Best First Book (Canada/Caribbean) and the Amazon.ca First Novel Award, and was longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. Her second, Curiosity, was longlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the IMPAC award, and was a Quill and Quire Book of the Year. Joan was a longtime contributing reviewer for the Globe and Mail. She lives in Winnipeg. Visit her at www.joanthomas.ca

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