PRESS RELEASE NOVEMBER 2002
?Jane Eaton Hamilton is a fine and accomplished writer.?
???????????????? --Carol Shields
?Jane Eaton Hamilton is a superb writer. Those who do not know this should
read the book and judge for themselves.?????????????????????????????????????
???????????????? --Joy Kogawa
?These stories will grab you by the throat and not let you go. Highly
original, gripping, sharp and deeply moving, they deserve the prizes they
have won, and those to come.?
???????????????? --Emma Donoghue
From prize-winning author Jane Eaton Hamilton comes her widely-anticipated
second collection of short fiction, Hunger (ISBN 077801202 6), following up
on the success of July Nights and Other Stories. Uncannily diverse, these
stories pop characters from the page and into your heart. Edgy and
provocative, warm and compassionate, these tales of families in love and
heartbreak are stories for the new millennium.
Meet Rob, the struck-dumb narrator of ?Accusation.? His wife is carrying on
an affair with an artist young enough to be their son. Finally he
orchestrates a visit to the young lover on the pretense of buying one of his
canvasses.
Meet Liz, the hapless lesbian of ?Kiss Me or Something? who falls for a straight woman and, in plans that go madly awry, decides to have a baby with her.
Meet Ted, the sad and beleaguered husband in the story ?Lifeboat? who,
seeking to replace the loss of his wife?s mastectomy, steals a fake breast
to carry in his pocket.
Meet Derrick, the befuddled father of ?You Just Sit Here, Little Daddy?.
His daughter, Polly, keeps pulling further and further into her own life
while Derrick paddles hard trying just to keep up.
Meet Bettina of ?Hunger?, the barely-adult woman in a power-skewed
relationship with a predatory older woman, whose fond, aching but unmet
desire is to go back to school and make something of herself. Will she
break free?
Jane Eaton Hamilton is the author of five previous books including two books
of poetry from Brick Books. Her titles have been nominated for a wide
variety of prizes, from the Pat Lowther Poetry Award to the BC Book Prizes,
and her short work, in addition to the prizes garnered for fictions from
this book, has won the League of Canadian Poets Canadian Chapbook Award, the
Grain nonfiction award (the striking ?Being Jane Hamilton? about being a
writer in Canada with the name of a famous American writer), the Belles
Lettres nonfiction award and the Event nonfiction award. She has also been
shortlisted for dozens of other awards including the Canadian Literary
Awards.
And for this collection? ?Territory? won the This Magazine Great Canadian
Literary Hunt and was reprinted in the Journey Prize Anthology. ?Hunger?
won the Paragraph Magazine Erotic Fiction Prize and was reprinted in the
Diva Book of Lesbian Short Fiction II. The much anthologized ?Goombay
Smash? won the Prism International Short Story Contest before being
reprinted in Best Canadian Short Stories. ?Graduation,? a story of a young
boy coming to grips with his disappointing mother that first appeared in the
Malahat Review, was reprinted in the Journey Prize Anthology. ?How to Have
Heart Disease (Without Really Trying)?, also a winner in the Prism
International Short Story Contest, was cited by Best American Short Stories
as distinguished.
Hamilton?s work has appeared in Maclean?s, Seventeen, the New York Times,
the Globe and Mail and Fine Gardening, among many other publications, and
has been widely anthologized. She and her longtime partner, physician Joy
Masuhara, have two daughters and are part of the Canadian court case for
same-sex marriage rights. They live in Vancouver. For more information,
please see http://www.janeeatonhamilton.com or contact:
Oberon Press
400-350 Sparks Street
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada K1R 7S8
Telephone/fax: (613) 238-3275
E-mail: oberon@sympatico.ca
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