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Arvida

Written by: Samuel Archibald, Donald Winkler - translator
Narrated by: Andrew Jackson, Chai Valladares, Deborah Burgess, Anna Sani, Michael David Kirby, Libby Lennie, Jonathan Potts, Julie Lemieux, Allan Royal
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Publisher's Summary

Finalist for the 2015 Giller Prize

Finalist for the 2016 Best Translated Book Award

One of Quill & Quire's Books of the Year, 2015

A 25,000-copy best seller in Quebec, Arvida, with its stories of innocent young girls and wild beasts, attempted murder and ritual mutilation, haunted houses and road trips heading nowhere, is unforgettable. Like a Proust-obsessed Cormac McCarthy, Samuel Archibald's portrait of his hometown, a model town designed by American industrialist Arthur Vining Davis, does for Quebec's North what William Faulkner did for the South and heralds an important new voice in world literature.

Samuel Archibald teaches contemporary popular culture at the University of Quebec in Montreal, where he lectures on genre fiction, horror movies, and video games, among other subjects.

©2015 Samuel Archibald, translation Donald Winkler (P)2018 Audible, Inc.
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Doesn’t make sense

This has no plot, it’s just random stories that have no correlation to one another

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