All the Voices Cry

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Set in the woods and rural areas outside Montral, New Zealander Alice Peterson's stories sparkle with down-under merriment and Qubecois charm. Her themes are simplelove, family, deathbut rendered so precisely that their inner complexities shine clear, and their most improbable beauties emerge. All the Voices Cry is a romantic and whimsical debut from a not-to-be-missed young author.

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"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

Author Bio

Alice Petersen is a writer and critic whose work has been shortlisted for the Journey Prize, the Canada Broadcast Corporation Literary Awards, and the Writers' Union of Canada Short Story Competition. She was born in New Zealand and now lives and works in Montreal.