Open Arms
- Publisher
- Freehand Books
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2009
- Subjects
- Literary, Coming of Age, Family Life
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781990601446
- Publish Date
- Sep 2008
- List Price
- $10.99
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About the author
Marina Endicott’s second novel, Good to a Fault, was winner of the regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize Best Book Award, Canada and the Caribbean, a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and one of The Globe and Mail’s Top 100 Books of 2008. Her debut novel, Open Arms, was a finalist for the 2001 Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award and broadcast on CBC Radio’s Between the Covers. Endicott’s stories have been featured in Coming Attractions and shortlisted for the Journey Prize and the Western Magazine Awards. She was born in Golden, BC and grew up in Vancouver, Nova Scotia and Toronto. She has been an actor, director, playwright and editor, and was Dramaturge of the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre for many years. She lives in Edmonton.
Awards
- Short-listed, Amazon/Books in Canada First Novel Award