The Immaculate Conception Photography Gallery Paperback by Katherine Govier

Product Details

• Publisher: Vintage Canada (2000-04-11)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 272 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780679310341
• Item Weight: 307.6 grams
• Dimensions: 7.97 x 5.13 x 0.75 cm

In this eclectic and intriguing collection of short stories, Govier blurs the boundaries between seemingly disparate worlds and highlights the human desire to rationalize life experiences. Two cottagers mistake the brilliance of a search party's flares for an alien invasion. A photographer rewrites the past to suit the present by altering his client's photographs. The Immaculate Conception Photography Gallery is extraordinary and absorbing fiction, with ideas that resonate in the mind.

About the Author

Katherine Govier is an acclaimed novelist, short-story writer and journalist, born and raised in Alberta and currently living in Toronto. She is the author of eight novels and three short story collections, and is the editor of two collections of travel essays. She is the winner of the Marian Engel Award (for a woman writer in mid-career) among other honours.