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Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
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Dialogue Books
- Paperback Jan 11, 2022 | 9780349701813 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Sep 29, 2020 | 9780349701820 | RRP $36.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Nov 24, 2020 | 9780349701837 | RRP $49.99 Buy Now
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Imprint
Dialogue Books
- Paperback Jan 11, 2022 | 9780349701813 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Sep 29, 2020 | 9780349701820 | RRP $36.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Nov 24, 2020 | 9780349701837 | RRP $49.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Feb 10, 2020 | 9780349701806 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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Imprint
Dialogue Books
- Paperback Jan 11, 2022 | 9780349701813 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Sep 29, 2020 | 9780349701820 | RRP $36.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Nov 24, 2020 | 9780349701837 | RRP $49.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Feb 10, 2020 | 9780349701806 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
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Imprint
Dialogue Books
- Paperback Jan 11, 2022 | 9780349701813 | RRP $26.99 Buy Now
- Trade Paperback Sep 29, 2020 | 9780349701820 | RRP $36.99 Buy Now
- Hardback Nov 24, 2020 | 9780349701837 | RRP $49.99 Buy Now
- e-Book Feb 10, 2020 | 9780349701806 | RRP $12.99 Buy Now
A hilarious and poignant love story about the way families are invented, told with the savvy of a Zadie Smith and with an inventiveness all Ian Williams' own, Reproduction explores unconventional connections and brilliantly redefines family.
WINNER OF THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE
An internationally bestselling debut novel: an energetically told, funny and moving book about how strangers become family.
Reproduction tells a crooked love story which takes strange, winding paths shaped by community, family and fleeting interactions that leave an inedible imprint.
Felicia, a nineteen-year-old West Indian student, and Edgar, an impetuous heir of a wealthy German family, meet when their ailing mothers are assigned the same hospital room. An odd-couple relationship blooms between Edgar and Felicia, ripe with miscommunications and reprisals for perceived and real offences that have some unexpected results.
Fast-forward, their son Armistice is a teenager fixated on a variety of get-rich-quick schemes that are as comic as they are indicative of the immigrant son's fear of falling through the cracks. When Edgar re-enters Felicia's life at a typically inopportune moment, the book's exhilarating final act is set in the motion and Reproduction is revealed.
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Praise for Reproduction
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Reproduction is many things at once. It's an engrossing story of disparate people brought together and also a masterful unfolding of unexpected connections and collisions between and across lives otherwise separated by race, class, gender and geography. It's a pointed and often playful plotting out of individual and shared stories in the close spaces of hospital rooms, garages, mansions and apartments, and a symphonic performance of resonant and dissonant voices, those of persons wanting to impress, persuade, deny, or beguile others, and always trying again
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Witty, playful, and disarmingly offbeat - even as it hums with serious themes - Toronto Star
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A sprawling novel that is both funny and poignant, powerful and playful - Calgary Herald
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Reproduction is reminiscent of Miriam Toews's novel All My Puny Sorrows in its balance between grief and humour. It's an intergenerational story told in an unexpected way - Quill & Quire
Ian Williams
Ian Williams is The Nation magazine's UN Correspondent and the author of DESERTER: George Bush's War on Military Families, Veterans and His Own Past. Since becoming interested in rum he has amassed a collection of "rumabilia" books, pamphlets, prints, advertising ephemera, bottles and decanters, hundreds of rum labels from all over the world, and not least, a growing collection of rum, from Croatia to Thailand, from Kazakhstan to India, from Hawaii to Argentina. Williams lives in New York City.
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