Wresting the Giller Down to Earth
The big guns were overlooked, but oh, what wonderful pistols have gone off. Celebrate Canada’s writers, folks, with the 2015 Giller Prize longlist:
- Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis (Coach House Books)
- Arvida by Samuel Archibald; Donald Winkler, trans. (Biblioasis)
- If I Fall, If I Die by Michael Christie (McClelland & Stewart)
- Outline by Rachel Cusk (HarperCollins)
- Undermajordomo Minor by Patrick deWitt (House of Anansi Press)
- Close to Hugh by Marina Endicott (Doubleday Canada)
- A Beauty by Connie Gault (McClelland & Stewart)
- All True Not a Lie In It by Alix Hawley (Knopf Canada)
- The Winter Family by Clifford Jackman (Random House Canada)
- Daydream of Angels by Heather O’Neill (HarperCollins Canada)
- Martin John by Anakana Schofield (Biblioasis)
- Confidence by Russell Smith (Biblioasis)