John Lent

John Lent has been publishing poetry, fiction, and non-fiction nationally and internationally for the past thirty years. His work has appeared in various literary journals including Matrix, This Magazine, Grain, and The Malahat Review. Lent’s last novel, So It Won’t Go Away (Thistledown Press), was short-listed for a 2005 BC Book Prize. In his thirty-year writing career, Lent has presented his work across Canada, in the United States, and in numerous Western European countries. He is one of the founders of Kalamalka Press and the Kalamalka Institute for Working Writers, and served as the Regional Dean at North Okanagan College. Lent lives in Vernon, BC, with his wife, artist Jude Clarke, and plays in The Lent/Fraser/Wall Trio, a jazz and roots group.

 

  


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264 pages/trade paper

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So It Won't Go Away
 

ISBN: 978-1-894345-86-6

John Lent

Lent continues to explore the spatial viewpoints of the unique, often funny, dysfunctional Connelly family, to whom readers were first introduced in his previous experimental fiction, Monet’s Garden. Then, as now, we get to hear and see Neil, Rick and Jane dissect their own thinking, second-guess their destinies, and generally revel in and reinvent their relationships with each other as they confront their addictions, dreams, and failures. Throughout the ride, Lent’s humour and Lent himself transcends the page to join us through the read. While sharing such intimacy, he engages us in another dialogue, one that has a lot to do with fiction’s relationship to reality, one that rearranges our fixed perception of the writer’s place in the written work.

“I can think of no Canadian writer who so thoroughly positions us in front of the mirror that might offer us at once both reality and the imagined...” — Robert Kroetsch

“I think what I most love in Lent’s writing is the way it lifts ordinary speech toward lyric without sacrificing its ordinariness.” — Don McKay

  • Nominated for the 2006 Ethel Wilson BC Book Prize for Fiction


 


 

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