EDITORIAL REVIEW: Selected from the span of Simak's writing career, this collection demonstrates the wide-ranging possibilities of the science fiction story. Frank Lyall introduces the book and gives a general appraisal of Simak's work, the first to be published since his death in 1988.
The View From the Lane and Other Stories
β Scribed by Deborah-Anne Tunney
- Publisher
- Great Plains Publications;Enfield & Wizenty
- Year
- 2015;2014
- Tongue
- en-CA
- Weight
- 122 KB
- Category
- Fiction
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β¦ Synopsis
Spanning the twentieth century to the beginning of the twenty-first, this masterful collection of linked stories follows the life of Amy, through tales stretching back to her youth in 1950s Ottawa, her experiences as a young wife and mother in a small Ontario town, and her later years back in the city. Through a collage of unique voices and points of view β including a dog that introduces us to the neighborhood where Amy lived as a child β The View from the Lane examines the authenticity of memory and the brimming life in the everyday.
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