Carol Bruneau

• Jun-1996
• / Literary
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This linked collection chronicles four generations of women in a Cape Breton family, women who represent the unsung multitude who have struggled through the years to make homes and keep families clothed and fed, while the men went down into the mines...

• Sep-1998
• / Suspense
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Blending realism and black humour in this collection of linked stories, Bruneau lays bare the quirkiness of fate, as well as the simple spirit by which people manage to transcend it. This astonishingly lucid collection of sixteen pieces is set variou...

• May-2001
• / General Fiction
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Lucinda Hammond, the cashier for a convenience store in Nova Scotia, copes with the store's declining sales and her middle-age anxiety as she is courted by a construction boss, in this story of three generations of women....

• May-2015
• / Literary
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Set in the early autumn of 1943, the These Good Hands interweaves the biography of French sculptor Camille Claudel and the story of the nurse who cares for her during the final days of her thirty-year incarceration in France's Montdevergues Asylum. B...

• Mar-2018
• / General Fiction
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Carol Bruneau, author of six acclaimed works of fiction (most recently, These Good Hands), brings her finely honed voice to 12 new stories about shifting concepts of Nova Scotian identity. In "The Race," a war bride?s remarkable life trajectory unfol...

• Nov-2018
• / Literary
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Surviving the 1917 Halifax Explosion leaves a grieving Nova Scotia couple on a long and difficult road to redemption in this “textured and rich” novel (Quill & Quire).   Though they survived the Halifax Explosion of 1917, Lucy Caines and...

• Mar-2019
• / Literary
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It’s 1943. Enman and Una Greene are newly married. Each is haunted by their respective pasts, and each harbours secrets. They have hopes of a happy life together -- though they have little idea how to create such a life. Enman brings Una to his chi...

• Sep-2020
• / Literary
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But I had known since forever that it's colours that keep the world turning, that keep a person going. One glimpse of the tiny painted house that folk art legend Maud Lewis shared with her husband, Everett, in Marshalltown, Nova Scotia, during th...

• May-2024
• / General Fiction
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Contemporary short story collection exploring privilege, perspective, and contradiction from the celebrated author of Brighten the Corner Where You Are and A Bird on Every Tree. Bruneau is a master. We should know this by now. — Quill & Quire, ...