Johanna Skibsrud





Johanna Skibsrud

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Johanna Skibsrud is the author of two collections of poetry. The Sentimentalists, her first novel, won the 2010 Scotiabank Giller Prize, Canada’s most prestigious literary award. She lives in Tucson, Arizona.


Average rating: 2.68 · 171 ratings · 40 reviews · 4 distinct works
The Sentimentalists
2.61 of 5 stars 2.61 avg rating — 986 ratings — published 2009 — 14 editions
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2.81 of 5 stars 2.81 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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Late Nights With Wild Cowboys
3.33 of 5 stars 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2008
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“I had thought in those years, I suppose, having learned the lesson from my mother well, that it was foolish to ask for too much out of life, afterwards only to live in the wake of that expectation, an irreducible disappointment. But what pain, I thought now, could be greater than to realize that even the practical reality for which you had assumed to settle upon, did not hold – that even that was illusory? Would it not be better, then, to set your sights on some more fantastic and rare dream from which even in failing you might take some comfort in having once aspired?”
Johanna Skibsrud, The Sentimentalists

“...the most-the best-we can do: answer the questions that pose themselves to us, and describe, if only to ourselves, the things that we have loved, and believed in, and the actions that we have or would have liked to have taken, and will take now, and do take, over and over again, in the quiet part of our minds.”
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