Falling Angels

by Barbara Gowdy

Three sisters and their alcoholic father find their lives changed after the unexpected death of the girls' mother.

Genres: Fiction, Canada, Novels, Contemporary, Literature, Literary Fiction, Canadian Literature

199 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1989

About the author

Barbara Gowdy is the author of seven books, including Helpless, The Romantic, The White Bone, Mister Sandman, We So Seldom Look on Love and Falling Angels, all of which have met with widespread international acclaim. A three-time finalist for The Governor General’s Award, two-time finalist for The Scotia Bank Giller Prize, The Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, winner of the Marian Engel Award and The Trillium Book Prize, Gowdy has been longlisted for The Man Booker Prize. She has been called “a miraculous writer” by the Chicago Tribune, and in 2005 Harper’s magazine described her as a “terrific literary realist” who has “refused to subscribe to worn-out techniques and storytelling methods.” Born in Windsor, Ontario, she lives in Toronto.

Reviews

[Linden]

Travmatik anne, baba ve cocuklarinin korkutucu gerceklikteki oykusu. Cevirmenin jargonlara uzak olmasi yazik olmus