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Johanna Skibsrud is the author of two poetry collections, Late Nights With Wild Cowboys, which was shortlisted for the Gerald Lampert Award, and I Do Not Think that I Could Love a Human Being. Originally from Meadowville, Nova Scotia, Skibsrud currently lives in Montreal. The Sentimentalists, which won the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize, is her first novel.
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"Johanna Skibsrud's remarkable debut is a novel at once lyrical and frank, the resonantly layered portrait of a man, a family and a place that will stay with you long after you read the last page." -- Claire Messud "A beautiful tribute to a father-daughter relationship." Globe and Mail "The writing here is trip-wire taut as the exploration of guilt, family and duty unfold." Giller Prize Jury "A probing exploration - now subtle, oblique, now forensic, scalpel-sharp - of the ramifications of a person's experience through the lives and relationships of those he loves. Of the way in which what we do, and witness, echoes through our lives, and the next generation's." -- Tim Pears "An outstanding novel born of the horror of Vietnam...The poet Johanna Skibsrud's subtle yet candid first novel, which last year deservedly won the Giller Prize, Canada's major literary award, confronts the aftermath of a Vietnam veteran's experience and its impact on his wife and two daughters...Skibsrud is a calm writer, and her prose is detailed...the emotional power is relentless. A sense of longing courses through the narrative, yet the irony of the title is well served; this is an intelligent, reserved novel, and is all the more moving for the restrained dignity that conveys not only the regrets but also the anger...Skibsrud is superb at evoking memory, the way random flashbacks dart into the mind and entire scenes are recalled with the vividness of a photograph...The scenes in which she observes her father and his dead friend's father are brilliantly handled. There are flashes of perfection in this muted novel. There is also an ironic humour...A philosophical intensity often surfaces; this is a thoughtful novel, reflecting on many dark issues. Yet all the while Skibsrud is guiding the personal story towards a darker one: that of war...The US army did not leave Vietnam as heroes. This collective horror has inspired some outstanding novels; this is one of them...The Sentimentalists is an allusive, intelligent and solemn work that articulates one man's horror and the way it became a communal lamentation." -- Eileen Battersby Irish Times
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- PublisherWilliam Heinemann
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 0434021423
- ISBN 13 9780434021420
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