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Celebrate more than 150 years of Canada with 150 books.
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"The True Story of Ida Johnson, Sharon Riis' first novel, begins with the claim: 'The truth of the matter is: there is none.' She creates a small-town, working-class Canadian world where reality depends on perception and where the relativity of that perception and the values assigned to it are taken for granted. The consequences are disturbing. If everything is relative, then values are meaningless. Murdering a husband and children carries the same weight as screwing a stranger or smoking a cigarette. Ida Johnson exists as Nietzche's heir in an absurd world beyound good and evil, a world where value judgments are impossible, possibly irrelevant."
(From Wikipedia)
Sharon Riis was a Canadian novelist, short story writer, and screenwriter. She was nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award in 1976 for her debut novel The True Story of Ida Johnson, published by Women's Press.
(From HarperCollins Canada)
Helen Humphreys' most recent novel, The Evening Chorus, was nominated for a Governor General’s Award and was a national bestseller. Her critically acclaimed memoir, Nocturne, was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award. Previous novels include Coventry, a New York Times Editors’ Choice, a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year, and a finalist for the Trillium Book Award; Afterimage, which won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Prize for fiction; Leaving Earth, which won the Toronto Book Award; and The Lost Garden, which was a Canada Reads selection. The recipient of the Harbourfront Festival Prize for literary excellence, Humphreys lives in Kingston, Ontario.