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Shortly before his death in December 1999, Matt Cohen won the Governor General’s Award for his novel Elizabeth and After and the Harbourfront Festival Prize in honour of his life as a writer. In 1998 he received the Toronto Arts Award for writing. He is the author of thirteen novels as well as poetry, short stories, books for children and works of translation from French into English.

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The Bookseller
Written by Matt Cohen

eBook | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36743-3 (0-307-36743-6)

July 31, 2012 | $13.99

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The Bookseller
Written by Matt Cohen

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307367433
Our Price: $13.99


Paul Stevens is a bookseller in the marginalized world of used books, a lover of Flaubert and Dickens, young, unsure of himself - until he meets Judith and is drawn into her secret world.


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Getting Lucky
Written by Matt Cohen

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-307-36878-2 (0-307-36878-5)

February 4, 2011 | $13.99

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Getting Lucky
Written by Matt Cohen

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307368782
Our Price: $13.99


With a clear-eyed affection for the wandering souls who populate his stories—as they cling to talismans like a cowboy shirt, a chenille bedspread and a 1953 classic Ford—Matt Cohen causes us to look at them, and the worlds they inhabit, in unexpected ways. In his darkly comic, wholly original manner, he...

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The Disinherited
Written by Matt Cohen

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36874-4 (0-307-36874-2)

January 28, 2011 | $13.99

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The Disinherited
Written by Matt Cohen

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307368744
Our Price: $13.99


The Disinherited, first published in 1974, is one of Matt Cohen's four novels that came to be known as the Salem quartet--stories set in the fictional town of Salem in eastern Ontario, somewhere north of Kingston in the rugged farmland and forest of the Canadian Shield. These are the novels that...

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Typing
Written by Matt Cohen

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-307-36879-9 (0-307-36879-3)

January 28, 2011 | $13.99

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Typing
Written by Matt Cohen

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307368799
Our Price: $13.99


Matt Cohen left us all a gift when he decided, in the last six months of his life, to write a memoir. Typing is an invaluable and touching reckoning of the writing life, funny in many places, brilliant in others. It's also the story of the flourishing of writing in Canada...

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Elizabeth and After
Written by Matt Cohen

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36877-5 (0-307-36877-7)

December 3, 2010 | $13.99

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Elizabeth and After
Written by Matt Cohen

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307368775
Our Price: $13.99


Two love stories, one past, one present, mirror each other in this highly acclaimed story of ambition, sex, memory and marriage. Set in small-town Ontario -- vintage Matt Cohen territory -- Elizabeth and After is rich in insights about human foibles and aspirations, and an unforgettable portrait of a place and...

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Last Seen
Written by Matt Cohen

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36876-8 (0-307-36876-9)

December 3, 2010 | $13.99

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Last Seen
Written by Matt Cohen

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307368768
Our Price: $13.99


Last Seen, Matt Cohen’s penultimate novel, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Trillium Book Award. Last Seen is a darkly comic story of two brothers and a woman who brings them both back to life. Harold, the older brother, is handsome and charming but dying of...

Also available as a trade paperback.

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The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone
Written by Matt Cohen

eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-36875-1 (0-307-36875-0)

December 3, 2010 | $13.99

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The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone
Written by Matt Cohen

Format: eBook
ISBN: 9780307368751
Our Price: $13.99


The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone, first published in 1979, is one of Matt Cohen's four novels that came to be known as the Salem quartet--stories set in the fictional town of Salem in eastern Ontario, somewhere north of Kingston in the rugged farmland and forest of the Canadian Shield...

Also available as a trade paperback.

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Typing
Written by Matt Cohen

Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Biography & Autobiography - Literary
978-0-679-31124-9 (0-679-31124-6)

September 25, 2001 | $19.95

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Typing
Written by Matt Cohen

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780679311249
Our Price: $19.95
   Quantity: 1 


Matt Cohen left us all a gift when he decided, in the last six months of his life, to write a memoir. Typing is an invaluable and touching reckoning of the writing life, funny in many places, brilliant in others. It's also the story of the flourishing of writing in Canada...

Also available as an eBook.

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Getting Lucky
Written by Matt Cohen

Trade Paperback | 240 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-676-97363-1 (0-676-97363-9)

February 13, 2001 | $17.95

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Getting Lucky
Written by Matt Cohen

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780676973631
Our Price: $17.95
   Quantity: 1 


With a clear-eyed affection for the wandering souls who populate the ten stories in Getting Lucky - as they cling to talismans like a cowboy shirt, a chenille bedspread and a 1953 classic Ford - Matt Cohen causes us to look at them, and the worlds they inhabit, in unexpected ways...

Also available as an eBook.

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The Disinherited
Written by Matt Cohen

Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97346-4 (0-676-97346-9)

September 12, 2000 | $17.95

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The Disinherited
Written by Matt Cohen

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780676973464
Our Price: $17.95
   Quantity: 1 


The Disinherited, first published in 1974, is one of Matt Cohen's four novels that came to be known as the Salem quartet--stories set in the fictional town of Salem in eastern Ontario, somewhere north of Kingston in the rugged farmland and forest of the Canadian Shield. These are the novels that...

Also available as an eBook.

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The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone
Written by Matt Cohen

Trade Paperback | 232 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97347-1 (0-676-97347-7)

September 12, 2000 | $17.95

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The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone
Written by Matt Cohen

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780676973471
Our Price: $17.95
   Quantity: 1 


The Sweet Second Summer of Kitty Malone, first published in 1979, is one of Matt Cohen's four novels that came to be known as the Salem quartet--stories set in the fictional town of Salem in eastern Ontario, somewhere north of Kingston in the rugged farmland and forest of the Canadian Shield...

Also available as an eBook.

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Elizabeth and After
Written by Matt Cohen

Trade Paperback | 384 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97257-3 (0-676-97257-8)

April 11, 2000 | $18.95

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Elizabeth and After
Written by Matt Cohen

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780676972573
Our Price: $18.95
   Quantity: 1 


Two love stories, one past, one present, mirror each other in this highly acclaimed story of ambition, sex, memory and marriage. Set in small-town Ontario -- vintage Matt Cohen territory -- Elizabeth and After is rich in insights about human foibles and aspirations, and an unforgettable portrait of a place and...

Also available as an eBook.

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The Bookseller
Written by Matt Cohen

Trade Paperback | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97096-8 (0-676-97096-6)

August 26, 1997 | $17.95

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The Bookseller
Written by Matt Cohen

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780676970968
Our Price: $17.95
   Quantity: 1 


Paul Stevens is a bookseller in the marginalized world of used books, a lover of Flaubert and Dickens, young, unsure of himself - until he meets Judith and is drawn into her secret world.

Also available as an eBook.

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Last Seen
Written by Matt Cohen

Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-676-97081-4 (0-676-97081-8)

August 26, 1997 | $17.95

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Last Seen
Written by Matt Cohen

Format: Trade Paperback
ISBN: 9780676970814
Our Price: $17.95
   Quantity: 1 


Last Seen, Matt Cohen’s penultimate novel, was a finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Trillium Book Award. Last Seen is a darkly comic story of two brothers and a woman who brings them both back to life. Harold, the older brother, is handsome and charming but dying of...

Also available as an eBook.

              
              



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