Sandra Birdsell
Sandra Birdsell was born in 1942 in Winnipeg, the fifth of eleven children, to a Dutch-Mennonite mother and a French-speaking Métis father - but that’s where the similarities to the Vandal family end, she insists. Children of the Day was inspired by the childhood memory of a census taker who came to the door and reduced her family’s rich and varied heritage to a simple fill-in-the-blank “French.” Her father would later assure the young Bartlette children that they were in fact “true Canadians”-a little bit of this and little bit of that.
Birdsell began writing when she was a girl, but...
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Waiting for Joe
Hardcover | 288 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35916-2 (0-307-35916-6)
September 14, 2010 | $29.95
After you've lost it all — job, house, savings, future —what have you got left? A piercing new novel of our times by one of Canada's finest fiction writers.
On a chilly early morning in late spring, Joe Beaudry and his wife, Laurie, wake up in circumstances that would challenge saints: they are on...
Written by Sandra Birdsell
Hardcover | 288 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35916-2 (0-307-35916-6)
September 14, 2010 | $29.95
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After you've lost it all — job, house, savings, future —what have you got left? A piercing new novel of our times by one of Canada's finest fiction writers.
On a chilly early morning in late spring, Joe Beaudry and his wife, Laurie, wake up in circumstances that would challenge saints: they are on...
Also available as an
eBook.
Waiting for Joe
eBook | 304 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35918-6 (0-307-35918-2)
September 14, 2010 | $29.95
After you've lost it all — job, house, savings, future —what have you got left? A piercing new novel of our times by one of Canada's finest fiction writers.
On a chilly early morning in late spring, Joe Beaudry and his wife, Laurie, wake up in circumstances that would challenge saints: they are on...
Written by Sandra Birdsell
eBook | 304 pages | Random House Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-35918-6 (0-307-35918-2)
September 14, 2010 | $29.95
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After you've lost it all — job, house, savings, future —what have you got left? A piercing new novel of our times by one of Canada's finest fiction writers.
On a chilly early morning in late spring, Joe Beaudry and his wife, Laurie, wake up in circumstances that would challenge saints: they are on...
Also available as a
hardcover.
Where Nests the Water Hen
Trade Paperback | 216 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9387-6 (0-7710-9387-X)
September 7, 2010 | $17.95
The story of Where Nests the Water Hen is as pure as the lives of the people in it - and as unforgettable. Set in the remote wilderness of northern Manitoba, this sunny, tender idyll of daily frontier life captures, as few novels ever have, the spirit and the surroundings of...
Trade Paperback | 216 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9387-6 (0-7710-9387-X)
September 7, 2010 | $17.95
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The story of Where Nests the Water Hen is as pure as the lives of the people in it - and as unforgettable. Set in the remote wilderness of northern Manitoba, this sunny, tender idyll of daily frontier life captures, as few novels ever have, the spirit and the surroundings of...
Also available as a
paperback.
Children of the Day
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37532-2 (0-307-37532-3)
January 8, 2010 | $21.00
Children of the Day opens on a June morning in 1953, when Sara Vandal, convinced that her husband has been having a decades-long affair, decides that she is too sick to get out of bed. With ten children in the house (and a possible eleventh on the way), this decision sets...
Written by Sandra Birdsell
eBook | pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-37532-2 (0-307-37532-3)
January 8, 2010 | $21.00
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Children of the Day opens on a June morning in 1953, when Sara Vandal, convinced that her husband has been having a decades-long affair, decides that she is too sick to get out of bed. With ten children in the house (and a possible eleventh on the way), this decision sets...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
Children of the Day
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-679-31370-0 (0-679-31370-2)
August 15, 2006 | $21.00
Children of the Day opens on a June morning in 1953, when Sara Vandal, convinced that her husband has been having a decades-long affair, decides that she is too sick to get out of bed. With ten children in the house (and a possible eleventh on the way), this decision sets...
Written by Sandra Birdsell
Trade Paperback | 416 pages | Vintage Canada | Fiction
978-0-679-31370-0 (0-679-31370-2)
August 15, 2006 | $21.00
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Children of the Day opens on a June morning in 1953, when Sara Vandal, convinced that her husband has been having a decades-long affair, decides that she is too sick to get out of bed. With ten children in the house (and a possible eleventh on the way), this decision sets...
Also available as an
eBook.
The Russlander
Trade Paperback | 408 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-1451-2 (0-7710-1451-1)
August 20, 2002 | $21.00
Katherine (Katya) Vogt is now an old woman living in Winnipeg, but the story of how she and her family came to Canada begins in Russia in 1910, on a wealthy Mennonite estate. Here they lived in a world bounded by the prosperity of their landlords and by the poverty and...
Written by Sandra Birdsell
Trade Paperback | 408 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-1451-2 (0-7710-1451-1)
August 20, 2002 | $21.00
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Katherine (Katya) Vogt is now an old woman living in Winnipeg, but the story of how she and her family came to Canada begins in Russia in 1910, on a wealthy Mennonite estate. Here they lived in a world bounded by the prosperity of their landlords and by the poverty and...
Agassiz Stories
Trade Paperback | 360 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-7710-1464-2 (0-7710-1464-3)
April 2, 2002 | $19.99
The superbly crafted stories in this internationally acclaimed collection trace four generations of the Lafrenière family in the fictional small town of Agassiz, Manitoba, from the time of the great flood of 1950 to the present. There is Mika, the matriarch of the family, tired of being a mother to her...
Written by Sandra Birdsell
Trade Paperback | 360 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Short Stories (single author)
978-0-7710-1464-2 (0-7710-1464-3)
April 2, 2002 | $19.99
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The superbly crafted stories in this internationally acclaimed collection trace four generations of the Lafrenière family in the fictional small town of Agassiz, Manitoba, from the time of the great flood of 1950 to the present. There is Mika, the matriarch of the family, tired of being a mother to her...
The Chrome Suite
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-1455-0 (0-7710-1455-4)
April 2, 2002 | $19.99
Set in Manitoba, Sandra Birdsell’s spellbinding novel reaches back nearly four decades into the life of scriptwriter Amy Barber. In a journey shadowed by the future and the past, Amy travels by car from Toronto to Winnipeg with her younger lover, and reconstructs the events that brought her to where she...
Written by Sandra Birdsell
Trade Paperback | 400 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary
978-0-7710-1455-0 (0-7710-1455-4)
April 2, 2002 | $19.99
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Set in Manitoba, Sandra Birdsell’s spellbinding novel reaches back nearly four decades into the life of scriptwriter Amy Barber. In a journey shadowed by the future and the past, Amy travels by car from Toronto to Winnipeg with her younger lover, and reconstructs the events that brought her to where she...
Where Nests the Water Hen
Paperback | 192 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-9854-3 (0-7710-9854-5)
October 1, 1989 | $12.95
The story of Where Nests the Water Hen is as pure as the lives of the people in it - and as unforgettable. Set in the remote wilderness of northern Manitoba, this sunny, tender idyll of daily frontier life captures, as few novels ever have, the spirit and the surroundings of...
Paperback | 192 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-9854-3 (0-7710-9854-5)
October 1, 1989 | $12.95
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The story of Where Nests the Water Hen is as pure as the lives of the people in it - and as unforgettable. Set in the remote wilderness of northern Manitoba, this sunny, tender idyll of daily frontier life captures, as few novels ever have, the spirit and the surroundings of...
Also available as a
trade paperback.
