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An Orange from Portugal: Christmas Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland
It's often said that the main export of the Maritimes is Maritimers, and the same is true of Newfoundland. "Going down the road" is a way of life, but so is coming home for Christmas. It is tradition marked by happiness, fun, and sometimes less comfortable emotions. Given the regional penchant for yarn spinning, this common experience yields an abundance of stories.
In An Orange from Portugal, editor Anne Simpson takes liberties with the concept of "story" to produce a book bursting with Christmas flavour. Many of her choices are fiction, others are memoirs, tall tales, poems, or essays, and still others defy classification. Some authors are nationally and even internationally famous, some are well known in the region, and others are published here for the first time. Spanning more than a century of seasonal writing, the collection includes a description of killing a pig aboard the sailing ship Argonauta for Christmas dinner; Hugh MacLennan"s Halifax waif who wants nothing more than for Santa to bring him a real orange, an orange from Portugal; a story by Alden Nowlan and another by Harry Bruce giving very different versions of what the animals in the barn do on Christmas Eve; a story about Jewish children hanging up their stockings; and very new work by young writers Lisa Moore and Michael Crummey. Beautiful poems by Lynn Davies, Milton Acorn and others leaven the collection for readers of all persuasions. Other authors include: Wayne Johnston, Mary Pratt, David Adams Richards, Carol Bruneau, Wilfred Grenfeld, L.M. Montgomery, Paul Bowdring, Grace Ladd, Herb Curtis, Joan Clark, Ernest Buckler, Rhoda Graser, Bert Batstone, Elisabeth Harvor, David Weale, Charles G.D. Roberts, Ronald F. Hawkins, Mark Jarman, Elsie Charles Basque, Richard Cumyn, Herménégilde Chiasson, Stan Dragland, Alistair MacLeod, and Bernice Morgan.
An Orange from Portugal is a Christmas feast, with the scent of turkey and the sound of laughter wafting from the kitchen, and a flurry of snow outside the window.
Book Details
- Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
- Publish Date: Sep 30th, 2003
- Pages: 240
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.30in - 6.00in - 0.70in - 0.75lb
- EAN: 9780864923455
- Categories: • Literary• Anthologies (multiple authors)• Short Stories (single author)
About the Author
Jarman, Mark Anthony: - Mark Anthony Jarman is an award-winning Canadian author of six books of fiction and the critically acclaimed Ireland's Eye. He has won a National Magazine Award in non-fiction, and his essays have appeared in the Walrus, Canadian Geographic, Hobart, the Barcelona Review, Vrig Nederland, and the Globe and Mail. He lives in Fredericton.
Dragland, Stan: - Stan Dragland was born in Alberta. He taught at the University of Western Ontario, and after taking early retirement, he moved to St. John's, Newfoundland. He was a founding editor of Brick, A Journal of Reviews, and he also co-founded Brick Books, a poetry press, with Don McKay. He has published fiction, poetry, and literary criticism.
Johnston, Wayne: - Wayne Johnston was born in Goulds, Newfoundland. He has written five novels, of which The Navigator of New York (2002) is the latest. His previous novel, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (1998), was nominated for the most prestigious fiction awards in Canada; it won the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize and the Canadian Authors' Association Award for Fiction. His memoir, Baltimore's Mansion (1999), was awarded the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction.
Pratt, Mary: - Mary Pratt's paintings have been exhibited in Canada's most influential galleries and reproduced in magazines. Mary Frances West Pratt was born in Fredericton, New Brunswick in 1935. She attended Mount Allison University and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. In 1957, she married fellow student Christopher Pratt, and moved to Glasgow, Scotland. In 1959, they moved to Newfoundland, where Mary taught painting at Memorial University. During her career, Mary Pratt has steadily built a national recognition for her photo realist paintings and for her active role in cultural affairs.
Adams Richards, David: - David Adams Richards. The novels of David Adams Richards put New Brunswick's Miramichi region on the world's literary map. "Small Gifts" is an adaptation by Goose Lane Editions of his screenplay Small Gifts, first broadcast on CBC TV in 1995. Small Gifts won a Gemini Award in 1996 and the 1996 New York International Film Festival Award for Best Screen Play. The adaptation appears here by permission of the author and Goose Lane Editions.
Bruce, Harry: - Harry Bruce was born in Toronto and made his home in Nova Scotia from 1971 until his recent move to Moncton, New Brunswick. He is a celebrated essayist, editor, journalist, and writer, with a dozen books to his credit, including An Illustrated History of Nova Scotia (1997) and Down Home: Notes of a Maritime Son (1988). In 1997 he won the Evelyn Richardson Prize for Non-Fiction, nearly twenty years after it was first awarded to him.
Grenfell, Wilfred: - Wilfred Grenfell was born in Parkgate, England, in 1865. He studied medicine and later volunteered to go to Newfoundland and Labrador, where he quickly gained great respect among the people. He established a mission, an orphanage, and a school at St. Anthony, Labrador. His tale Adrift on an Ice Pan (1908, 1992) is an account of how he was stranded overnight on the ice. He died in 1941.
Bowdring, Paul: - Paul Bowdring is a novelist, poet, editor, and teacher; he was born on Bell Island in Conception Bay, Newfoundland. He is the author of two novels, The Roncesvalles Pass (1989) and The Night Season (1997). He was also a long-time editor of TickleAce, a literary magazine. He lives in St. John's Newfoundland.
Clark, Joan: - Joan Clark was born in Liverpool, Nova Scotia. She writes novels, short fiction, and novels for young adults. She has won numerous awards, including the Marian Engel Award, the Canadian Authors' Association Literary Award, the Mr. Christie Award, and the Jeffrey Bilson Award. Her most recent novel is Latitudes of Melt (2000). She lives in St. John's, Newfoundland.
Buckler, Ernest: - Ernest Buckler was born at Dalhousie West, Nova Scotia, in 1908. Best known for his novel, The Mountain and the Valley (1952), he also wrote short fiction, essays, and a memoir. His work of verse and prose, Whirligig (1977), won the Stephen Leacock Award. He was also awarded several honorary degrees for his contribution to literature. He died in 1984.
Harvor, Elisabeth: - Elisabeth Harvor, a poet, short story writer, and novelist, grew up in New Brunswick's Kennebecasis Valley. One of her three short story collections, Let Me Be the One (1996), was a finalist for the Governor General's Award. She won the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award for her first book of poetry, Fortress of Chairs (1992). In 2000, she published her first novel, Excessive Joy Injures the Heart.
Weale, David: - David Weale, a professor of history at the University of Prince Edward Island, is a master storyteller. He has written six books, among them An Island Christmas Reader (1994) and The True Meaning of Crumbfest (1999). He has toured his stage shows, A Long Way from the Road (1998) and Greenmount Boy (2000), across the Island.
Roberts, Charles G. D.: - Sir Charles G.D. Roberts was born in Douglas, New Brunswick, in 1860. He attended the University of New Brunswick and later worked as a professor at King's College, situated at that time in Windsor, Nova Scotia. A pre-eminent member of the Confederation Poets, he wa noted for his many poetry books and animal stories, as well as for more traditional fiction and non-fiction. He died in 1943.
Moore, Lisa: - Lisa Moore has written for radio and television; she has also written art criticism. She studied at the Nova Scotia School of Art and Design in Halifax, and now lives in St. John's, Newfoundland. Her first book of short fiction, Degrees of Nakedness (1995), was followed by a second, Open (2002), which was nominated for the Giller Prize.
Davies, Lynn: - Lynn Davies grew up in Moncton, New Brunswick, and spent sixteen years in Nova Scotia before returning to her home province. Her first collection of poetry, The Bridge That Carries the Road (1999), was nominated for the Governor General's Award. She also writes children's stories. She lives in McLeod Hill, New Brunswick, near Fredericton.
MacLeod, Alistair: - Alistair MacLeod was born in North Battleford, Saskatchewan, in 1936, and grew up in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. He taught for many years at the University of Windsor. He is known for his short fiction -- As Birds Bring Forth the Sun (1986) and The Lost Salt Gift of Blood (1976) -- and his novel, No Great Mischief (1999). This novel won the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award in 2001.
Morgan, Bernice: - Bernice Morgan was born in 1935 in pre-Confederation Newfoundland. She is best known for her two novels, Random Passage (1992) and Waiting for Time (1994). Random Passage was made into a mini-series for CBC television. Her most recent book is The Topography of Love (2000). She lives in St. John's, Newfoundland.
MacLennan, Hugh: - Hugh MacLennan was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia in 1907. A novelist and essayist, he became a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford and later completed a PhD in classics at Princeton. He won the Governor General's Award more often than any other writer: three times for fiction and twice for non-fiction. His best-known novels are Barometer Rising (1941), Two Solitudes (1945), and The Watch that Ends the Night (1959). He died in 1990.
Simpson, Anne: - Anne Simpson is one of Canada's rising stars. Her story "Dreaming Snow" won the Journey Prize, and her first novel, Canterbury Beach, was a finalist for the Chapters/Robertson Davies Prize and the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award. Her first poetry collection, Light Falls Through You, won the Atlantic Poetry Prize and the Gerald Lampert Award and was a finalist for the Pat Lowther Award; her second, collection was Loop. After spending a year as writer-in-residence at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, she has returned to her home in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.
Jarman, Mark Anthony: - Mark Anthony Jarman's writings run the gamut from fiction to poetry to travel writing. A graduate of the Iowa Writer's Workshop, he has been shortlisted for the O. Henry Prize and has won the Gold National Magazine Award in nonfiction, the Maclean-Hunter Endowment Award (twice), and the Jack Hodgins Fiction Prize. He is the author of 19 Knives, New Orleans is Sinking, Dancing Nightly in the Tavern, and the travel book Ireland's Eye. His novel Salvage King Ya! is on Amazon.ca s 50 Essential Canadian Books. His stories have appeared in The Walrus, Canadian Geographic, Hobart, The Barcelona Review, Vrig Nederland, and the Globe and Mail. He currently teaches at the University of New Brunswick and is the fiction editor of The Fiddlehead.
Montgomery, Lucy Maud: - Lucy Maud Montgomery was born in Clifton (now New London), Prince Edward Island, in 1874. Her first novel, Anne of Green Gables (1908), was followed by more than twenty others. Long after her death, in 1942, she remains one of Canada's most beloved writers.
Chiasson, Hermenegilde: - Hermenegilde Chiasson is a poet, playwright, artist, filmmaker, and statesman. His book of poems Conversations (Editions d'Acadie, 1998) won the Governor General's Literary Award in 1999. From 2003 to 2009, he was Lieutenant-Governor of New Brunswick.
Crummey, Michael: - Micheal Crummey is a native of Newfoundland, a poet, short story writer, and novelist. His short story collection is titled Flesh and Blood. The most recent of his three novels, Galore, was a finalist for the Governor General's Award for Fiction and the winner of the 2010 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Novel.
Nowlan, Alden: - Born in Hants Co., Nova Scotia, in 1933, Alden Nowlan moved to Hartland, New Brunswick, when he was nineteen, and worked on the Hartland Observer as reporter, editor, and general facilitator until he went to Saint John (and the Telegraph Journal) in 1963. In 1968 he was invited to take up the position of Writer-in-Residence at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. Alden Nowlan died on June 27th, 1983.
MacLeod, Alistair: -
Alistair MacLeod was born in Saskatchewan but was raised in Cape Breton. He has published three short story collections: The Lost Salt Gift of Blood, As Birds Bring Forth the Sun, and Island: The Collected Stories. His novel, No Great Mischief, won many honours including the Trillium Award for Fiction, the Thomas H. Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award, and the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.
Praise for this book
"[Christmas] is a conflict of emotion captured beautifully in this terrific, ranging collection... The significance of the orange as the sensuous apotheosis of the season is especially pervasive in the older stories... plenty here to warm the cockles of the heart, too, should they require warming... Despite its title, the vast majority of these narratives are strong enough to be enjoyed during any season."