{"product_id":"all-the-voices-cry-9781926845524","title":"All the Voices Cry","description":"WINNER OF THE QWF FIRST BOOK PRIZE \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Alice Petersen writes as eloquently about the natural world as she does about the world of human emotion and desire. This is a wise and impressive collection of stories.\"--David Bezmozgis, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Free World\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAlice Petersen's \u003ci\u003eAll the Voices Cry\u003c\/i\u003e is masterful and potent--incredibly satisfying for a reader.\u003cbr\u003e-- Kathleen Winter, author of \u003ci\u003eAnnabel\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAn academic's wife, struggling to keep up with her husband's quest to find a long-dead author's Tahitian love-garden, realizes that her own idea of paradise no longer includes her husband. An architect dreams of slender redheads, Champlain's astrolabe, and a brush with mortality--and finds at least the latter at \u003ci\u003eDanseuses 7 Jours\u003c\/i\u003e. An elderly man boards a trans-Pacific flight in an attempt to elude the prediction of a psychic, only to understand too late how the prophecy has shaped his actions. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eAll the Voices Cry\u003c\/i\u003e, modern life collides with all the old pushes and pulls: city and country, the global and the local, the ideal and the real. Petersen's characters chase the mirage of escape, and are brought up hard by reality. This is a book rooted in landscape, tangled in the brambles of personal history, and it introduces in Alice Petersen a wondrous new voice that is yours to discover. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eAlice Petersen \u003c\/b\u003eis a writer and critic whose work has been shortlisted for numerous Canadian prizes and awards. She was born in New Zealand and now lives and works in Montreal, Quebec.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Biblioasis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/22\/2012\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781926845524\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 158\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.10h x 5.20w x 0.50d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eQuill \u0026amp; Quire\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/01\/2012 pg. 29\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Alice Petersen","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41574629114037,"sku":"9781926845524","price":13.56,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_1ad471bc-2782-40ba-b416-0e717ea790d1.jpg?v=1643696992","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/all-the-voices-cry-9781926845524","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}