{"id":3558,"date":"2018-01-30T17:44:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-31T00:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2018\/01\/30\/featured-reviews-and-awards-of-rising-abruptly\/"},"modified":"2019-01-02T15:03:51","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T22:03:51","slug":"featured-reviews-and-awards-of-rising-abruptly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.library.ualberta.ca\/ualbertapressblog\/2018\/01\/30\/featured-reviews-and-awards-of-rising-abruptly\/","title":{"rendered":"Featured Reviews and Awards of &quot;Rising Abruptly&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"product_reviews_text\">&#8220;The seven quirky stories in Gis\u00e8le Villeneuve\u2019s new collection, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uap.ualberta.ca\/titles\/824-9781772122619-rising-abruptly\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Rising Abruptly<\/em><\/a>,all have mountains at their heart&#8230;. The characters\u2019 relationship with mountains evolves throughout the stories, creating an arc that models a romantic relationship: infatuation, the conflict between independence and commitment, and the acceptance of love coupled with death. <em>Rising Abruptly<\/em> is a literary ode to climbers and the mountains that captivate them, and presents a fascinating portrait of passion for the high peaks.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"product_reviews_author\">Karen Ackland,\u00a0<em>Foreword Magazine<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"product_reviews_text\">&#8220;Sept nouvelles impressionnantes, \u00e9crites dans une langue irr\u00e9prochable,\u00a0qui donnent \u2014 ou ne donnent pas \u2014 envie d\u2019affronter les toits du\u00a0monde.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"product_reviews_author\"><em>Lettres qu\u00e9b\u00e9coises<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"product_reviews_text\"># 5 on Edmonton Fiction Bestsellers list, April 23, 2017<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p class=\"product_reviews_text\">&#8220;Mountain climbing is a metaphor in the stories found in her new collection, <em>Rising Abruptly<\/em>, which use form, language, and narrative to deal with raw emotions like fear, love, and passion&#8230; Villeneuve&#8217;s stories convey to readers a sense of the dual nature of the mountains, which are at once hard, difficult, and intimidating, but also fragile. In fact, it is precisely the juxtaposition of two opposites that often fuels Villeneuve&#8217;s writing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"product_reviews_author\">Paula F. Kirman,\u00a0<em>Prairie Books Now<\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Georges Bugnet Award for Fiction<\/b>, Canada<br \/>\nWinner<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Banff Mountain Book Competition &#8211; Mountain Fiction &amp; Poetry<\/b>, Canada<br \/>\nWinner<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><b>Alberta Book Publishing Awards, Trade Fiction<\/b>, Canada<br \/>\nWinner<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-8845 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/holeinthebucket.files.wordpress.com\/2017\/11\/9781772122619.jpg?w=175\" alt=\"\" width=\"152\" height=\"260\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The seven quirky stories in Gis\u00e8le Villeneuve\u2019s new collection, Rising Abruptly,all have mountains at their heart&#8230;. 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