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Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for Sitting Practice
Monday May 3, 2004 - Caroline Adderson has been awarded the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize for her novel Sitting Practice (Thomas Allen Publishers). The award was presented Saturday night at the Lieutenant Governor's BC Book Prize Gala Dinner at Government House, Victoria. The BC Book Prizes, established in 1985, celebrate the achievements of British Columbia writers and publishers. Finalists for the 2004 Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize were:
Caroline Adderson, Sitting Practice (Thomas Allen Publishers)
Claudia Casper, The Continuation of Love by Other Means (Penguin)
Steven Galloway, Ascension (Knopf Canada)
Kevin Patterson, Country of Cold (Vintage Canada)
Janet Warner, Other Sorrows, Other Joys: The Marriage of Catherine Sophia Boucher and William Blake (St. Martin's Press)
In Sitting Practice, Ross Alexander is driving home from a tennis game with his new bride when a wayward tennis ball rolls under his feet. As his wife Iliana removes her seatbelt to retrieve the ball, a truck slams into the car, and she ends up paralyzed and in a coma. With this extraordinary novel of love and desire, loss, betrayal and redemption, Adderson shows us how entire lives can be changed forever because of one fateful moment. Following the devastating car accident, Ross struggles with his guilt over the consequences of his wife's paralysis and for the imagined life that is now forever lost. He turns to an exploration of Buddhist principles to ease his pain. He must also contend with his co-dependent twin sister, Bonnie, mother of his adored nephew, who is jealous of the other woman in her brother's life. Iliana must deal with her new existence as a wheelchair-bound wife, her husband's feelings of alienation, and their aching and growing lack of intimacy. An unexpected twist in the story will surprise.
Caroline Adderson, Sitting Practice (Thomas Allen Publishers)
Claudia Casper, The Continuation of Love by Other Means (Penguin)
Steven Galloway, Ascension (Knopf Canada)
Kevin Patterson, Country of Cold (Vintage Canada)
Janet Warner, Other Sorrows, Other Joys: The Marriage of Catherine Sophia Boucher and William Blake (St. Martin's Press)
In Sitting Practice, Ross Alexander is driving home from a tennis game with his new bride when a wayward tennis ball rolls under his feet. As his wife Iliana removes her seatbelt to retrieve the ball, a truck slams into the car, and she ends up paralyzed and in a coma. With this extraordinary novel of love and desire, loss, betrayal and redemption, Adderson shows us how entire lives can be changed forever because of one fateful moment. Following the devastating car accident, Ross struggles with his guilt over the consequences of his wife's paralysis and for the imagined life that is now forever lost. He turns to an exploration of Buddhist principles to ease his pain. He must also contend with his co-dependent twin sister, Bonnie, mother of his adored nephew, who is jealous of the other woman in her brother's life. Iliana must deal with her new existence as a wheelchair-bound wife, her husband's feelings of alienation, and their aching and growing lack of intimacy. An unexpected twist in the story will surprise.
Submitted on May 3, 2004 in By David.
