Theory
| Category: | Book |
| By (author): | Brand, Dionne |
| Subject: | FICTION / Canadian |
| FICTION / Contemporary Women | |
| FICTION / General | |
| FICTION / Literary | |
| Awards: | OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Literature (2019) Long-listed |
| Publisher: | Knopf Random Vintage Canada |
| Published: | August 2019 |
| Format: | Book-paperback |
| Pages: | 240 |
| Size: | 8.00in x 5.18in |
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Additional Notes
| From The Publisher* | A smart, sensual and witty novel about what happens when love and intellect are set on a collision course. This compact tour de force affirms Dionne Brand's place as one of Canada's most dazzling and influential artists. By effortlessly telling this short, intense tale in the voice of an unnamed, ungendered (and brilliantly unreliable) narrator, Dionne Brand makes a bold statement not only about love and personhood, but about race and gender--and what can and cannot be articulated in prose when the forces that inhabit the space between words are greater than words themselves. A gorgeous, profoundly moving, word- and note-perfect novel of ideas that only a great artist at the height of her powers could write. |
| Review Quote* | SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2019 OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR CARIBBEAN LITERATURE (all genres) WINNER IN THE FICTION CATEGORY: 2019 OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR CARIBBEAN LITERATURE "After reading this book I realized that a novel can trace and map the inner markings inside one's mind. A beautiful book that forever changed the way I approach writing, reading, and teaching." -Chelene Knight, author of Dear Current Occupant, CBC Books "Dionne Brand's ingenious meditation on academic angst is a heady, pleasure-filled ride." -Susan G. Cole, NOW "Full of wry humour and biting critique, Theory is a masterful work from a writer who still knows how to have fun." -The Globe and Mail "What Brand does so adeptly in this book is reveal how the many layers of power and personality destroy romantic partnerships, stress familial bonds and muzzle intellectual potential. . . . Theory is a book for those who are intrigued by how a brilliant thinker approaches lost love, unmet potential and unreliable narration. But if none of that appeals to you, Brand's gorgeous prose and sly humour will definitely win you over." -Toronto Star "Theory is a novel for the ages, a pirouetting inquiry into how we struggle, weep, deny, and love our way towards each other and into the arms of knowledge. Full of wit and unsettling acuity, driven by intellectual and physical passions, Dionne Brand's new novel is a masterpiece." -Madeleine Thien, author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing, winner of the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize "Theory marks Dionne Brand's latest accomplishment in exquisitely attuning both thought and language to the sublime of everyday life. ‘There's no reference for what I want to do,' the narrator states; and herein begins a bold new story . . . By turns wry, passionate, and sensuously intellectual, Theory is a book of singular power from one of our greatest living writers." -David Chariandy, author of Brother and I've Been Meaning to Tell You |
| Biographical Note | DIONNE BRAND's literary credentials are legion. Her most recent book of poetry, Ossuaries, won the Griffin Poetry Prize; her nine others include winners of the Governor General's Literary Award, the Trillium Book Award and the Pat Lowther Memorial Award. Her novel In Another Place, Not Here was selected as a NYT Book Review Notable Book and a Best Book by the Globe and Mail; At the Full and Change of the Moon was selected a Best Book by the LA Times and What We All Long For won the Toronto Book Award. In 2006, Brand was awarded the Harbourfront Festival Prize for her contribution to the world of books and writing, and was Toronto's Poet Laureate from 2009 to 2012. In 2017, she was named to the Order of Canada. Brand is a Professor in the School of English and Theatre Studies at the University of Guelph. She lives in Toronto. |