All Times Have Been Modern Paperback by Elisabeth Harvor

Product Details

• Publisher: Penguin Canada (2005-08-23)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 352 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780143016175
• Item Weight: 317.52 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

Vibrant and illuminating, All Times Have Been Modern tells the story of an education of the heart that becomes an education in the world. After Kay marries Alexander Oleski, a Polish émigré she meets the summer she turns twenty, she travels to Europe and writes a slim novel, igniting grand dreams for herself as a writer. But fallow years follow. When her marriage comes to an end in the 1980s, she decides to move to Montreal and dedicate herself to writing. But in Montreal the life she has planned for herself is interrupted when she falls in love with an architect. Liberating, unpredictable, All Times Have Been Modern is a virtuoso novel that explores the confounding ways that life and fiction collide and overlap. It also raises unsettling questions about the conflicts between love and identity, intimacy and solitude, emotional intensity and what endures.

About the Author

ELISABETH HARVOR's first novel, Excessive Joy Injures the Heart, was named one of the ten best books of the year by the Toronto Star in 2000. Her most recent story collections are If Only We Could Drive Like This Forever and Let Me Be the One, a finalist for the Governor General's Award. Her fiction and poetry have appeared in many periodicals and anthologies, among them The Malahat Review, PRISM International, and The New Yorker. She won the Alden Nowlan Award in 2000 and is the 2003 winner of the Marian Engel Award.