Alissa York
Alissa York was born in 1970, in Athabasca, Alberta, to Australian immigrant parents. There, Alissa’s father taught high school English and outdoor education, and her mother taught part-time at the local elementary school and studied creative writing at the University of Alberta. Alissa has commented, “My imprint from that time is incredibly strong… I’m drawn to writing about people with their insides showing. There’s a boiling down of human experience in small towns.” In 1977, the family moved to Victoria, British Columbia. A decade later, Alissa graduated from high school and moved to Toronto, then on to Montreal, where she studied...
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eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36629-0 (0-307-36629-4)
July 27, 2011 | $13.99
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Award-winning author Alissa York’s first novel is a haunting and masterful exploration of how passions of the spirit and the flesh can overwhelm us, and even come to inhabit the ground beneath our feet. Divided into two parts, Mercy pairs a single year in the past with a single night in...
Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-35790-8 (0-307-35790-2)
July 26, 2011 | $19.95
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In her highly anticipated new novel, Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated author Alissa York creates a contemporary human fable that taps into the great tenderness and drama at the heart of the animal world.
The wide ravine that bisects the city is home to countless species of urban wildlife, including human waifs and strays...
Trade Paperback | 240 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Anthologies (multiple authors); Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-4344-4 (0-7710-4344-9)
September 28, 2010 | $17.99
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Discover the next generation of great Canadian writers with this highly acclaimed annual anthology.
For more than two decades, The Journey Prize Stories has been presenting the best short stories published each year by some of Canada's most exciting up-and-coming new writers. Previous contributors — including such now well-known, bestselling writers as...
eBook | pages | Random House Canada | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-37570-4 (0-307-37570-6)
July 27, 2010 | $13.99
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NOMINEE 2011 – Toronto Book Awards
When Edal Jones wakes to the sound of a mouse on the hardwood floor by her bed, she doesn’t quite know why she says softly, “Hello.” But then, a lot of things have stopped making sense for Edal. As a federal wildlife officer at Pearson International...
eBook | 448 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37562-9 (0-307-37562-5)
January 29, 2010 | $10.99
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A stunning novel of loss, memory, despair and deliverance by one of Canada’s best young fiction writers, set on a Mormon ranch in nineteenth-century Utah.
Dorrie, a shock-pale child with a mass of untameable black hair, cannot recall anything of her life before she recovered from an illness at seven. A solitary...
Trade Paperback | 448 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-679-31473-8 (0-679-31473-3)
December 11, 2007 | $21.00
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A stunning novel of loss, memory, despair and deliverance by one of Canada’s best young fiction writers, set on a Mormon ranch in nineteenth-century Utah.
Dorrie, a shock-pale child with a mass of untameable black hair, cannot recall anything of her life before she recovered from an illness at seven. A solitary...
Trade Paperback | 344 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-679-31217-8 (0-679-31217-X)
December 2, 2003 | $21.00
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Award-winning author Alissa York’s first novel is a haunting and masterful exploration of how passions of the spirit and the flesh can overwhelm us, and even come to inhabit the ground beneath our feet. Divided into two parts, Mercy pairs a single year in the past with a single night in...
