Barbara Gowdy

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June 25, 1950 in Windsor, Canada

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http://www.barbaragowdy.ca/

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Barbara Gowdy is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. Born in Windsor, Ontario, she is the long-time partner of poet Christopher Dewdney and resides in Toronto.

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Books by Barbara Gowdy

Average rating: 3.67 · 2,866 ratings · 357 reviews · 10 distinct works

	The White Bone 3.75 avg rating — 979 ratings — published 1999 — 16 editions	My rating:
	The Romantic 3.59 avg rating — 505 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions	My rating:
	Helpless: A Novel 3.27 avg rating — 461 ratings — 11 editions	My rating:
	We So Seldom Look on Love: Stories 4.13 avg rating — 313 ratings — published 1992 — 7 editions	My rating:
	Mister Sandman 3.64 avg rating — 376 ratings — published 1995 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Falling Angels 3.74 avg rating — 231 ratings — published 1989 — 13 editions	My rating:
	Through the Green Valley 3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 1988	My rating:
	We So Seldom Look on Love 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating:
	Helpless 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	We So Seldom Look on Love: Stories 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:

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“On the one hand, Sylvie loves the feeling of being like everybody else... on the other hand when she feels most like a freak is when shes getting away with not being one.”
― Barbara Gowdy

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“And then came months of memories connected to nothing and telling me nothing, and in this ambiguous atmosphere I stopped thinking of him as doomed. The memories themselves were generally pleasant. For at least a week I kept reliving the time he removed a splinter from my foot using surgical tweezers. Strangely, during this same week, a black Labrador retriever was accompanying me around town, appearing out of nowhere and trotting alongside me to the subway or or the grocery store. As with the splinter memory, I had a sense of information being conveyed but through a medium too opaque to be grasped.”
― Barbara Gowdy, The Romantic

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“Life is oblivion erupting, for a brief moment, into nonoblivion in order so that oblivion may proclaim... "I am." The assumption being, that living things are aware enough to make such a proclamation. Let us suppose that they are. Let us suppose that they are, to a degree, self-aware. This makes for the possibility of life recognizing itself, yes, but not as oblivion, only as life. In order for life to recognize itself as a fleeting pulse of oblivion, self-awareness, must be refined into pure awareness, which is observation unimpaired by either ego or preconceptions.”
― Barbara Gowdy, The Romantic

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