{"product_id":"brief-life-paperback","title":"Brief Life - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eKevin Marc Fournier\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Amid these magical realist happenings and horror motifs, \u003ci\u003eBrief Life\u003c\/i\u003e is a small-town coming-of-age story that explores family and community secrets, social status, and how teenage girls discover the world through trial and error, as well as books. Whittle is filled with puzzling people and events; it contains mysterious multitudes that are worth trying to decipher.\" - Literary Review of Canada\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Returning to some of the characters first introduced in his award-winning novel \u003ci\u003eThe Green-Eyed Queen of Suicide City\u003c\/i\u003e to tell a unique and all-new tale, Kevin Marc Fournier's \u003ci\u003eBrief Life\u003c\/i\u003e is the story of a fraught but lifelong friendship; the chronicle of a small town with a bizarre and tangled history; a multi-generational family saga of ghosts, dreams, visions, and visitations, of strange dogs, secret magic, and mysterious disappearances; a maze of funhouse mirrors, grotesque, poignant, and fantastical. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKevin Marc Fournier\u003c\/b\u003e is a native to the West End neighborhood of Winnipeg. He has written two novels for young adults: \u003ci\u003eSandbag Shuffle\u003c\/i\u003e, in which two cheerful scam artists make the most of Winnipeg's great flood of 1997, and \u003ci\u003eThe Green-Eyed Queen of Suicide City\u003c\/i\u003e, which invites readers into a twisted alternate reality. Both books won the McNally Robinson Book for Young People Award. Fournier was shortlisted for the John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer. He has just completed an artist residency at the Deep Bay Cabin in Riding Mountain National Park, where he was writing his next novel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 288\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.87 x 8.43 x 5.43 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 17, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47253198340345,"sku":"9781773370811","price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/ZFJGK0dZZ3g2NnFrOEdGU1BtSGN6dz09.webp?v=1768699537","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/brief-life-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}