Casino and Other Stories
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Acknowledgments
I am grateful to the following publications in which some of these stories appeared in an earlier form: “Crush” in NeWest Review (1984), Double Bond (1984), Worlds Unrealized (1991), Kitchen Talk: Contemporary Women’s Prose and Poetry (1992); “Patsy Flater’s Brief Search for God” in Grain (1992), Lodestone: Stories by Regina Writers; “Casino” in Best Canadian Stories (1992); “Deer Heart” in Best Canadian Stories (1989), Soho Square III (1990), Kunapipi (1991); “Figurines” in Beyond Borders (1992).
“Casino” also aired on “Ambience” (CBC Regina).
The author would like to thank the Saskatchewan Arts Board and the Canada Council for their support of this manuscript.
About the Author
Bonnie Burnard is a writer, editor and reviewer whose work has been widely anthologized and dramatized on the CBC. She won the Commonwealth Best First Book Award for Women of Influence and has also won several Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild Awards. She was the fiction editor for Grain magazine from 1982 to 1986 and has given readings throughout Canada, the U.S.A., England, Europe, South Africa and Australia. Bonnie Burnard lives in Ontario.
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“…beautifully written and shaped: a subtle substantial achievement.”
—Books in Canada
“Readers who enjoyed Women of Influence (1989), Bonnie Burnard’s first collection of stories, will, with her second, experience a jolt of familiar delight; in the powerful, quietly polished prose of Casino and Other Stories the old trademark tone—confident, a little wry—is honed to a fine-pointed edge.”
—Quill & Quire
“Like Munro and Svendsen, Burnard demonstrates the continued vitality of the realist tradition in Canadian literature.”
—Toronto Star
“Casino deserves to win prizes…These stories are resonantly detailed, with startling, even shocking twists…”
—Globe and Mail
Copyright
CASINO & OTHER STORIES
Copyright © 1994 by Bonnie Burnard.
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Burnard, Bonnie
Casino & other stories
1st HarperPerennial Canada ed.
“A Phyllis Bruce book.”
I. Title.
II. Title: Casino and other stories.
PS8553.U65C3 2000 C813’.54 C00-930154-2
PR9199.3.B87C27 2000
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