All the Voices Cry: 112.00 (American Poets Continuum (Paperback)) - Softcover

"Finely crafted and pared down to their bare essentials ... These are stories that work on multiple levels, and continue to divulge their secrets after several rereadings."--Quill & Quire "Among the book's pleasures are bursts of descriptive panache."--Globe and Mail "All the Voices Cry has to be counted one of the most assured short story debuts in recent years."--goodreports.net "Alice Petersen writes as eloquently about the natural world as she does about the world of human emotion and desire. This is a wise and impressive collection of stories."--David Bezmozgis, author of The Free World "Alice Petersen's All the Voices Cry is masterful and potent--incredibly satisfying for a reader."--Kathleen Winter, author of Annabel "The story is balanced between this sense of nostalgia and acceptance, and sustained by the narrator's charming voice and her gift for physical description."--David Bezmozgis, on "After Summer" "These stories are lively, immediate ... the metaphorical eye and the ear for voice are strong here."--David Adams Richards Prize, Winner's Citation (2009) "All the Voices Cry announces itself early on as something of a gift...The authorial voice, far from being elusive, is sharply, poetically present." -- Landfall

WINNER OF THE QWF FIRST BOOK PRIZE "Alice Petersen writes as eloquently about the natural world as she does about the world of human emotion and desire. This is a wise and impressive collection of stories."--David Bezmozgis, author of The Free World Alice Petersen's All the Voices Cry is masterful and potent--incredibly satisfying for a reader. -- Kathleen Winter, author of Annabel An academic's wife, struggling to keep up with her husband's quest to find a long-dead author's Tahitian love-garden, realizes that her own idea of paradise no longer includes her husband. An architect dreams of slender redheads, Champlain's astrolabe, and a brush with mortality--and finds at least the latter at Danseuses 7 Jours. An elderly man boards a trans-Pacific flight in an attempt to elude the prediction of a psychic, only to understand too late how the prophecy has shaped his actions. In All the Voices Cry, modern life collides with all the old pushes and pulls: city and country, the global and the local, the ideal and the real. Petersen's characters chase the mirage of escape, and are brought up hard by reality. This is a book rooted in landscape, tangled in the brambles of personal history, and it introduces in Alice Petersen a wondrous new voice that is yours to discover. Alice Petersen is a writer and critic whose work has been shortlisted for numerous Canadian prizes and awards. She was born in New Zealand and now lives and works in Montreal, Quebec.