For Goose Lane’s diamond anniversary — an array of six scintillating stories, gems mined from sixty years of Canada’s finest publishing and polished to the brightest hues. This multi-volume collection includes the following:

 

Famed poet Alden Nowlan’s A Boy’s Life of Napoleon, adapted from his first novel, The Wanton Troopers, posthumously published by Goose Lane in 1988

 

Douglas Glover’s strange and affecting

Woman Gored by Bison Lives

 

The Three Marys, a Christmas story with a bite, adapted by Lynn Coady from her debut novel, Strange Heaven

 

Simran, a twisting tour-de-force by

Shauna Singh Baldwin

 

Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer’s stunning

What Had Become of Us

 

Knife Party, a wild tale of an Italian vacation gone off the rails, from Mark Anthony Jarman’s highly anticipated new collection, forthcoming in 2015