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What We All Long for by Brand, Dionne
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- Binding
- Hardcover
- Weight
- 1 lbs
- Product Group
- Book
- IsTextBook
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- ISBN
- 9780676971675
- Book Title
- What We All Long for
- Item Length
- 8.5 in
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada
- Publication Year
- 2005
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.1 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- General
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 17.6 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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"They were born in the city from people born elsewhere." What We All Long Forfollows the overlapping stories of a close circle of second-generation twenty-somethings living in downtown Toronto. There's Tuyen, a lesbian avant-garde artist and the daughter of Vietnamese parents who've never recovered from losing one of their children in the crush to board a boat out of Vietnam in the 1970s. Tuyen defines herself in opposition to just about everything her family believes in and strives for. She's in love with her best friend Carla, a biracial bicycle courier, who's still reeling from the loss of her mother to suicide eighteen years earlier and who must now deal with her brother Jamal's latest acts of delinquency. Oku is a jazz-loving poet who, unbeknownst to his Jamaican-born parents, has dropped out of university. He is in constant conflict with his narrow-minded and verbally abusive father and tormented by his unrequited love for Jackie, a gorgeous black woman who runs a hip clothing shop on Queen Street West and dates only white men. Like each of her friends, Jackie feels alienated from her parents, former hipsters from Nova Scotia who never made it out of subsidized housing after their lives became entangled with desire and disappointment. The four characters try to make a life for themselves in the city, supporting one another through their family struggles. There's a fifth main character, Quy, the child who Tuyen's parents lost in Vietnam. In his first-person narrative, Quy describes how he survived in various refugee camps, then in the Thai underworld. After years of being hardened, he has finally made his way to Toronto and will soon be reunited with his family whether to love them or hurt them, it's not clear. His story builds to a breathless crescendo in an ending that will both shock and satisfy readers. What We All Long Foris a gripping and, at times, heart-rending story about identity, longing and loss in a cosmopolitan city. No other writer has presented such a powerful and richly textured portrait of present-day Toronto. Rinaldo Walcottwrites inThe Globe and Mail: "… every great city has its literary moments, and contemporary Toronto has been longing for one. We can now say with certainty that we no longer have to long for a novel that speaks this city's uniqueness: Dionne Brand has given us exactly that." Donna Bailey Nurse writes in theNational Post: "What We All Long Foris a watershed novel. From now on, Canadian writers will be pressed to portray contemporary Toronto in all its multiracial colour and polyphonic sound." ButWhat We All Long Foris not only about a particular city. It's about the universal experience of being human. As Walcott puts it, "Brand makes us see ourselves differently and anew. She translates our desires and experiences into a language, an art that allows us to voice that which we live, but could not utter or bring to voice until she did so for us." From the Trade Paperback edition.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Canada
ISBN-10
0676971679
ISBN-13
9780676971675
eBay Product ID (ePID)
45992096
Product Key Features
Book Title
What We All Long for
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
General
Publication Year
2005
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
17.6 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Pr9199.3.B683w47
Reviews
"There are many layers to this tale of four bright and fun-loving but sad and cynical young people set in Toronto, where the city itself comes across as both gritty and vibrant, a mass of humanity where cultures collide, mingle and intersect…. This brand (pardon the pun) of fiction heralds the arrival of truly 21st-century CanLit, with a blend of races and cultures that reflects the urban realities of Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and other cities across the country." -Canadian Press "Dionne Brand's What We All Long For is her third and most accomplished novel…. And it is not too much to say that Brand writes Toronto in this new novel as it has never been written before. . . . The craft of What We All Long For solidly establishes Brand as a literary contender. . . . She translates our desires and experience into a language, an art that allows us to voice that which we live, but could not utter or bring to voice until she did so for us. Yes, I am crediting Brand's art with tremendous power." -The Globe and Mail "Brand particularly lingers with her young characters, making them lovable in their beauty, loyalty, bravado, and vulnerability. Filmmaker, novelist, and poet, Brand draws on her multiple gifts in What We All Long For. . . . Brand's most accomplished novel yet." -Quill & Quire "Wanna bliss out? Read Dionne Brand writing about Toronto. The opening of What We All Long For . . . is so vivid, so convincing, you wish it would go on for pages. . . . [The characters are] diverse, talented, bristling with rage, regret and guilt. . . . This is a straight-ahead narrative, craftily conceived so that the relationships morph and the tensions build. . . . It's some of the best writing you'll see this year." -Susan G. Cole, NOW magazine "What We All Long For [is] a complicated, curious, heartbreaking book about being on the margins and finding one's own place, rather than trying to fit like a square peg into a round hole.... The scope of the story is broad, generous and ambitious, and Brand . . . speaks the lingo of her characters, their jive, their patois and their broken English, as if they were her own." -The Gazette (Montreal) "What We All Long For is an eminently satisfying novel, not only for its complexity and honesty but for the lyrical nature of its prose." -Winnipeg Free Press Praise for Dionne Brand: "Brand has two gifts that are incendiary in combination: a concise and intelligent grasp of the subtleties of emotion and an apparently effortless facility with language. The result is an extraordinary ability to capture the flicker of experience." -The Globe and Mail "A writer of the first rank. . . She combines folklore with poetry in a manner that recalls Michael Ondaatje, and she writes reportage like Mavis Gallant." -The Chronicle-Herald (Halifax) "Brand's style intoxicates. . . . [She] is one of the freshest, fiercest voices in Canadian letters." -The Edmonton Journal "Brand's is a voice both brave and beautiful." -NOW "You have to read the power of Dionne Brand's language to appreciate just how much life poetry it expresses." -Morning Star (UK) From the Hardcover edition., "There are many layers to this tale of four bright and fun-loving but sad and cynical young people set in Toronto, where the city itself comes across as both gritty and vibrant, a mass of humanity where cultures collide, mingle and intersect…. This brand (pardon the pun) of fiction heralds the arrival of truly 21st-century CanLit, with a blend of races and cultures that reflects the urban realities of Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver and other cities across the country." -Canadian Press "Dionne Brand'sWhat We All Long Foris her third and most accomplished novel…. And it is not too much to say that Brand writes Toronto in this new novel as it has never been written before. . . . The craft ofWhat We All Long Forsolidly establishes Brand as a literary contender. . . . She translates our desires and experience into a language, an art that allows us to voice that which we live, but could not utter or bring to voice until she did so for us. Yes, I am crediting Brand's art with tremendous power." -The Globe and Mail "Brand particularly lingers with her young characters, making them lovable in their beauty, loyalty, bravado, and vulnerability. Filmmaker, novelist, and poet, Brand draws on her multiple gifts inWhat We All Long For. . . . Brand's most accomplished novel yet." -Quill & Quire "Wanna bliss out? Read Dionne Brand writing about Toronto. The opening ofWhat We All Long For. . . is so vivid, so convincing, you wish it would go on for pages. . . . [The characters are] diverse, talented, bristling with rage, regret and guilt. . . . This is a straight-ahead narrative, craftily conceived so that the relationships morph and the tensions build. . . . It's some of the best writing you'll see this year." -Susan G. Cole,NOWmagazine "What We All Long For[is] a complicated, curious, heartbreaking book about being on the margins and finding one's own place, rather than trying to fit like a square peg into a round hole.... The scope of the story is broad, generous and ambitious, and Brand . . . speaks the lingo of her characters, their jive, their patois and their broken English, as if they were her own." -The Gazette(Montreal) "What We All Long Foris an eminently satisfying novel, not only for its complexity and honesty but for the lyrical nature of its prose." -Winnipeg Free Press Praise for Dionne Brand: "Brand has two gifts that are incendiary in combination: a concise and intelligent grasp of the subtleties of emotion and an apparently effortless facility with language. The result is an extraordinary ability to capture the flicker of experience." -The Globe and Mail "A writer of the first rank. . . She combines folklore with poetry in a manner that recalls Michael Ondaatje, and she writes reportage like Mavis Gallant." -The Chronicle-Herald(Halifax) "Brand's style intoxicates. . . . [She] is one of the freshest, fiercest voices in Canadian letters." -The Edmonton Journal "Brand's is a voice both brave and beautiful." -NOW "You have to read the power of Dionne Brand's language to appreciate just how much life poetry it expresses." -Morning Star(UK)
Copyright Date
2005
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2005-362591
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
22
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