{"product_id":"marine-life-stories-paperback","title":"Marine Life: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eLinda Svendsen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"As seamless as a fine piece of music,\" linked stories of a dysfunctional working-class family are \"effortlessly held together by [a] strong, clear voice\" (\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e).\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdele Nordstrom is more than just the youngest child of June, a cocktail lounge pianist who has weathered three marriages just to avoid being alone. Adele is also the artless, perceptive, deeply affecting lens through which acclaimed author Linda Svendsen reveals the lives of a Vancouver family as shattered by love as they are held together by it. With humor and poignancy, Adele tells stories about her half-brother Ray, a hard-drinking longshoreman who moves from one short-lived relationship to another. Then there's Adele's half-sister, Joyce, who walks away from a too-young marriage she may never recover from, while her half-sister Irene has committed to a life and a man who may just get the best of her in the end. Over the course of eight stories, Adele navigates the complexities of familial bonds, and of finding love and keeping it \"with such clear precision that her sentences adopt us. They pull us into the family, though we can see it more clearly than any family member can\" (\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"[Svendsen's] stories are stunning.\" --Alice Munro, Nobel Prize in Literature-winning author of \u003ci\u003eDear Life\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"It is hard to imagine that writing can be better than this.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Globe and Mail\u003c\/i\u003e (Toronto)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Svendsen's prose is tender and simple, her language whispering lessons that need not be shouted.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eMarine Life\u003c\/i\u003e is small but remarkably faceted, a cut gem that catches the light at any angle you hold it.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLinda Svendsen is a fiction and television writer living in New Westminster, Canada. She is a Professor at the UBC School of Creative Writing and was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2006. Additionally, her work has received support from the Wallace Stegner Fellowship (Stanford University), the Bunting Fellowship (Radcliffe), two National Endowment for the Arts Awards in Fiction, and a NYSCA\/NYFA Artist Fellowship. Her short fiction has appeared in the\u003ci\u003e Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eBest Canadian Stories, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003ethe \u003ci\u003ePEN\/O. Henry Prize Stories\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003eand the\u003ci\u003e Norton Anthology of Short Fiction\u003c\/i\u003e, among others.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 144\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 20, 2026\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67914541990195,"sku":"9798337207124","price":24.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/1lOHfHcwRG9798337207124.webp?v=1793738830","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/marine-life-stories-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}