Books by Lynn Coady
  • The Antagonist
    The Antagonist
    by Lynn Coady
  • Strange Heaven
    Strange Heaven
    by Lynn Coady
  • Mean Boy
    Mean Boy
    by Lynn Coady
  • The Saints of Big Harbour: A Novel
    The Saints of Big Harbour: A Novel
    by Lynn Coady
  • Play the Monster Blind
    Play the Monster Blind
    by Lynn Coady
  • Victory Meat: New Fiction from Atlantic Canada
    Victory Meat: New Fiction from Atlantic Canada
    by Lynn Coady
  • The Anansi Reader: Forty Years of Very Good Books
    The Anansi Reader: Forty Years of Very Good Books
    House of Anansi Press
  • Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English
    Oxford Book of Stories by Canadian Women in English
    Oxford University Press, USA
  • Penguin Book of Canadian Women's Short Stories
    Penguin Book of Canadian Women's Short Stories
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Only a writer as wonderfully gifted as Lynn Coady could elicit such extraordinary sympathy for a man as full of self-destructive rage as Rank, her main character. You won't soon forget this haunting novel. 

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Lynn Coady is a Canadian novelist, editor and journalist, originally from Cape Breton Island, NS, now living in Edmonton, Alberta.

Her most recent novel is called The Antagonist, was shortlisted for the 2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize. It will be published by Alfred A. Knopf in the USA in January, 2013.

Lynn Coady is also Senior Editor and co-founder of the magazine Eighteen Bridges. She is working on a new collection of short stories called Hellgoing to be published in 2013 with House of Anansi

Follow her on Twitter @Lynn_Coady