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Summary:

"Meet Sylvie -- funny, sly, sensual and flawed. She can't always count on herself to make good choices. She may or may not recognize a life-or-death moment, may or may not cancel her own wedding with a day to spare, might just try to walk past store security with a little something in her pocket. Like all of us, Sylvie must make decisions that have reverberations for years to come. Unlike the rest of us, Sylvie gets to live more than one life. In airy prose imbued with humour, this book asks the big questions: is there a right path and a wrong path, or does each possibility hold its share of pleasure and pain? Does a person have an immutable self, or is her essence dependent on circumstance? In this energetic and innovative book, Leona Theis creates a world without the usual limits and a protagonist who is conflicted, charismatic, brave, and full of curiosity. If Sylvie had Nine Lives is for everyone who has ever asked, What if . . . ?"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: June 1974
• High Beams
• July-August 1974
• How Sylvie Failed to Become a Better Person through Yoga
• 1979
• Last Days of Disco
• Three Mothers
• 1984
• Naked Bodega
• 1989
• Our Lady of Starting Over
• 1994
• Honestly
• May Zeus Strike You with a Lightning Bolt
• 1999
• What Erik Saw
• Game Face
• 2004
• Nekyia
• Things He Will Not Tell Her Daughter

• 2009
• Philosophies
• 2014.

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Author/Creator:

Theis, Leona, 1955- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

If Sylvie had nine lives: a novel in stories [by Theis, L.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: If Sylvie had nine lives [by Theis, L.] (Calgary, Alberta : Freehand Books, 2020 — ISBN 1988298717; ISBN 9781988298719)

Subjects:

Reincarnation — Fiction

General Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 22, 2021).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

PR9199.3.T4444 I32 2020eb

ISBNs:

9781988298726 (EPUB)
9781988298733 (electronic book)
1988298725 (EPUB)
1988298733 (electronic book)

OCLC Numbers:

1148172993

Other Control Numbers:

EBC6335232 (source: MiAaPQ)
[Unknown Type]: ybp16939327