Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • Discover millions of ebooks, audiobooks, and so much more with a free trial

    Only $11.99/month after trial. Cancel anytime.

    The Caroline Adderson Library: Pleased to Meet You / The Sky is Falling
    The Caroline Adderson Library: Pleased to Meet You / The Sky is Falling
    The Caroline Adderson Library: Pleased to Meet You / The Sky is Falling
    Ebook575 pages9 hours

    The Caroline Adderson Library: Pleased to Meet You / The Sky is Falling

    By Caroline Adderson

    3.5/5

    ()

    Read preview

    About this ebook

    This special bundle unites two books, one of short stories and one novel, by one of Canada’s premier short fiction writers. The Sky Is Falling deftly intertwines themes of first love, sexual confusion, and the dread of nuclear disaster with the comical infighting of a cast of well-meaning political activists, and the timelessness of the great Russian classics. A story for our own age of paranoia and terror, Caroline Adderson’s witty, accomplished novel returns the reader to another fearful era, when the world teetered on the brink of nuclear annihilation and the end of world seemed inevitable.

    Pleased to Meet You collects nine razor-sharp stories. Stylistically varied and linguistically confident, these are compulsively readable stories that plumb the complexities of the human heart. A dying Finn, a philandering photographer recovering from an emergency splenectomy, a young woman heavy with an hysterical pregnancy - these are just some of the surprising characters that people these pages.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDundurn
    Release dateDec 10, 2014
    ISBN9781459730908
    The Caroline Adderson Library: Pleased to Meet You / The Sky is Falling
    Author

    Caroline Adderson

    Caroline Adderson has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize longlist, the Governor General's Literary Award, the Rogers' Trust Fiction Prize and the Commonwealth Writers' Prize. She lives in Vancouver, British Columbia with her family.

    Read more from Caroline Adderson

    Related to The Caroline Adderson Library

    Related ebooks

    Literary Fiction For You

    View More
    View More

    Related podcast episodes

    Related articles

    • Article

      The Other Side Of THE FENCE

      Mar 1, 2023

      The Other Side Of THE FENCE
      6 min read

    • Article

      Philip Roth

      Jun 4, 2018

      Philip Roth
      25 min read

    • Article

      How Postcards From My Mother Helped Me Survive Childhood

      Mar 3, 2017

      For years, my mother wrote to me every day. I’d been sent away to boarding school and for the first weeks was forbidden to call home­. I was eleven. This was just before mobile phones came beeping and clicking into the lives of everyday people. I di

      4 min read

    • Article

      La Bohème

      Mar 1, 2022

      ON A SATURDAY or Sunday afternoon in the cold early months of 1988, I sat alone at a table for two in a Greenwich Village diner, twenty-four years old, hopelessly young, my notebook open in front of me. At the table next to mine were three people, al

      13 min read

    • Article

      The Other Side Of THE FENCE

      Mar 1, 2023

      The Other Side Of THE FENCE
      6 min read

    • Article

      You Just Don't Like It

      Sep 1, 2023

      You Just Don't Like It
      15 min read

    • Article

      Love Story

      Apr 22, 2022

      ‘She looked into his handsome, craggy face, his black hair blowing in the cold wind. He smiled at her, tracing his finger lightly down her arm. She shivered and, misunderstanding, he took off his jacket and put it around her shoulders, holding it clo

      3 min read

    • Article

      The heartbeat OF PARIS

      Apr 24, 2024

      The heartbeat OF PARIS
      9 min read

    • Article

      Mathematics, under Which Is Love, Whose Bed Is Language

      Jun 8, 2021

      And so it goes, God created the heavens and the earth. And the earth was formless and empty; and on its deep face was darkness. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters. And God said, Let there be light, and there was light. And God sa

      7 min read

    • Article

      The Turn

      Aug 14, 2019

      HERE’S a story. In college I entered the spring semester of my freshman year on academic probation. There wasn’t one reason this happened. There were many. I had signed up for a computer science class called Digital Security with no programming knowl

      5 min read

    • Article

      Diary, 1988

      Mar 15, 2022

      On November 16, 1989, I phoned the Soviet embassy in Paris and asked to speak to Mr. S. The switchboard operator did not reply. After a long silence, a woman’s voice said: “You know, Mr. S. returned to Moscow yesterday.” I immediately hung up. I felt

      17 min read

    • Article

      Not That Story

      Oct 28, 2017

      Not That Story
      7 min read

    • Article

      I’ll Bet You Think This Story’s about You: When People Keep Finding Themselves in Your Fiction

      Nov 28, 2018

      My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying. —Anton Chekhov 1. A Phone Call from Mom “Do you know what your brother did when he finished rea

      5 min read

    • Article

      Meet the Writer

      May 27, 2023

      Meet the Writer
      4 min read

    • Article

      Perfection

      Jun 9, 2020

      For years I could barely write a page. I thought I was becoming a virtuoso of smallness while the grief, which is wordless, occupied an ever-greater volume. My friend lived in the estates on the bad side of town. Let’s go to the forest, she said when

      9 min read

    • Article

      ‘Want’: Featured Fiction from Lynn Steger Strong

      Jul 8, 2020

      The novel won praise from Kirkus, which called it "wise, unflinching, and compelling," and Vulture, which hailed it as "a defining novel of our age of left-behind families." The post ‘Want’: Featured Fiction from Lynn Steger Strong appeared first on

      7 min read

    • Article

      Too BAD

      Aug 30, 2022

      Too BAD
      6 min read

    • Article

      Sleeper Hit

      Feb 5, 2024

      Sleeper Hit
      17 min read

    • Article

      The Gas Station

      Mar 15, 2019

      Mary believed there were two kinds of people in the world. There were those who were seen and those who were not. Mary considered herself the latter. She hadn’t lived in the town for long, only a few months. It was known for its beaches. It swelled w

      10 min read

    • Article

      The Music Of Angels

      Sep 1, 2018

      The Music Of Angels
      7 min read

    • Article

      A Year in Reading: Ayşe Papatya Bucak

      Dec 2, 2019

      I guess I believe reading generates empathy. I feel pretty sure it offers readers experiences they would not otherwise have. But does it change how we act? The post A Year in Reading: Ayşe Papatya Bucak appeared first on The Millions.

      6 min read

    Related categories

    Reviews for The Caroline Adderson Library

    3.5/5

    3 ratings1 review

    What did you think?

    Tap to rate

    Review must be at least 10 words

    • 3/5
      Please to Meet You by Caroline Adderson was a difficult read for me. First off I am not a fan of the short story and chose to read this book mostly because it fit a couple of reading challenges that I needed to complete. Although there were a couple of stories in this collection that I liked, for the most part I was put off by the author’s writing style and her decision to fill her stories with such unsympathetic, flawed people.There were nine stories in this collection and I liked Petit Mal about a mother who fears her son has become involved in Satanism, I also found Knives to be creepy but interesting but the overall slyness, the feeling that the author and her characters are superior to everyday people made me quite uncomfortable.I am certainly not judging the quality of this author’s writing but I doubt very much that I would pick something up by her again, we are obviously not on the same wavelength, and I felt very much out of my comfort zone with these stories.

    Book preview

    The Caroline Adderson Library - Caroline Adderson

    1^book_preview_excerpt.html}ےF寠kƬy^KNTک-c z臝/Y?=m($@_z4?~%?SO7߹ Q~z歯ݜ|5|5/cg.Tn`jJnxI8)4ڍZ_ B~+'Wˠ*}=I~V. }zq_yuS;ǵJt|uvSur{}e|ane|UkLQ#w,k6N쇩)E~Vǹ@|)cPi trsZXn+)j /x b',t1ߟtTݜ:vC""xf7 Ү┵϶:*>Vk)7 U}5Fػ}ô/"sy>a]})P`ys{G6O!L >ɗ2r_].$#6ƾllUN|LqX_D2zLM&aC'|ߋd>0D}ĵ˟k5:ѕK#ʲcv8^o.Q^ګt|z(6lw$$j nOKhXۡzJY>.0M̩t##/}ZOd(IM0<ݯeePv\鄹^no/ [(_6YSoGg J;lKE&{Q>Iԋ9ΪzU?O.el|E6|;̣`.dW|{,'w]h]Z)~7 heCkX}>]9_gQlG?#wރZam&2 P= #/FwiU{خt&<K_fN(#D4lZW+tly{|e-t*Ӏe^IJ(%| 3$}~ P;`n Vo2);#f7p]J2F?}]?Mħ),"Y +&~s /:t*=;v4@!=>r$~B+ߐJΔ;+u^jfɖ'6c c^(#(߶^&a*xrK9Hǵ,aX~QXs:/,ܺ"HeL蟇Sv dqz1bd|G۷ nZ8jU-#ɺ²oQ|i- xUؠi9f⺨z{nY@d "܁e x_1%w Ł nz >?T7!^_=GUUXD5T LGSǴd|~Wg 1RD'b :|#)9%]O# o?Oub:屻!~X4sǬeK<@)r*4?/B.0}]`z{,?BQ'cLŝ`do٫ oWV[S#s9X2NVJl8:ȳkM%@1]]FU|$מe4/Z^ U.ol\uh0n'sqi8L_"/\omY^DЬJNn8 MEG^cn&+iM6}Wq;g}0ё44$#8v4 Y/y(; &Q,3߉7~o#UkŒb@ēcHނ,iD5HBj4͊TIM//d |;u0Cf 4dw[^NiX< dgD4 Bm|/}LROч|]v!cSoРO\dv*6&N_o^~=\-KBfZ(ɟ=N6طW|Dtڳغ1N˥>َˋ Jse)`?Slķo7yrQS,P*b!:Ӟ=C>ej1X_v9],;H?*<&BF0erT4F'?"-x0l`(ثMnP@ѹ ċLק;jxq='gUpX:LTOyA5'GR`&TcȨIqP^EJ]!7SԘ("AIdl5ؙknF(~ ?;{m'Q.Rx[17R/+QrJ"84{O.YTx-bo_@\s3I' SqdWAZ d%5ֿd-²Ŕ2wm 5E-kh6\%9E'1TW‘ntI,5%)DM-& ;ig#jod˜j4g׉US:N߅G;N۫bxZw=OPgO'Qۄp.P9bn̏(ڍgYNlT|7[4}? 3Wd-2xQ^FhYڢ6 u<iY3Eqe%Ǜ~C'_/{+b":ӈxY9pu%/;3 F2 ZZr=j*8f)K ~*BBռfWqE-yÊ&!'&i@+?EGT S4Xn=Ϊ3A@\CuuFN|EXCq181zpzE^:{fUU8p-oDU I[W(pZ?!A!}8&R:J4,o'gWa N$g(K,~}AzEQbLs sDpdDA?E1 0]G#PLس="su\׉[C%WaZ.qUw}<`EJi~ _}uBszZ2EV ; .bJ-M`GpW,g2h YE5xAi"S׶%⺁%>-K/*dG꞉Me- 6tHTOiRŰjI*Cu ;RL(3vn"Θup#UWO35^b0 Hl *ouĠB퀕<0{ɡgQ%C(g{&xs{ a>%/1NdWh6 C&r6qwMs}uXe;|0׶Sl0dR Ĵluwj7Ee/\#V٫Z5L:d0C0mT"{kLT.SMTK@A|qDhT_3 ˰Ƚ# 8LŃqR&S~, ,RV8R 'b WkQ|E@cԭ{/KІY]!7b0Y"DQ3?*:m%&[Cے}f95,v gKp~0TK$`Y;r&ey2Fj4"L*lؖtc^OYţҖ-hh(6sP0Z!b!]$Fg,+*L| D4[6/hxpjܦVrK,U/lg0:Kr+J!.qCv zTVk?1OYk7W;꧋W4#41܃/#A#ƌ \M0m]h_"G7N7~^[A B[Iq6B̩"@AZb~Rk8)bF ]S%˛*ɽ+0LxJ7Lmn;0SUpCZ^}'Yrⰷ1N'w(yÐNj87Gq(~392-q0G6R|>ݨ^ٜf߁-J' FDXy4s)ȰrwYVڙl2Om* e>NjBӴv h /J~ ᪺r`q0pm;MX(gd{E)( %cfI-hqzXlxwS&tVSE 6"q]gb4@F8!b䂌 iԚGUy9⿴ڝ9e'w.j, 8X%&jlMEe&nC-'B| \ ̤o7+3rlEH4XSbK5A]Qߙ U>;*R`xuVr " <\FȉI!c He #ʈzU9fՀ fc3Ȍ͂*DT%Oxj^$d)\n~XMAֲǖ~|J9|ܺBcq [fKrG%[U]!_72ߓ w c[BJ? ImFD 7;電PBIYśs^'E@1i-󽙓Po45Ru- gZp5^vt$c^X2)w gzQ4/F8T4QikI  &4ekpSO-oDxOxյhAW43Dї"m3Ʌt-E`e(-mQkyȰQG '.Ow2 Zu'oE|:3ϮCή*7N1Fœ4sf Q泪nO ;MN2\П$/؂?. N_Y~ru&Ǻ 1 wʢ*\g]ЈQ\Q\8&Yo;, zE\I\=)UF1, UE%yЌ3>xChp>rn 3} .FjSz/7*'i]0ƫ`Α1ZNWbg ?a#,ˤ~:ali?gQlh%H)ː&XQ|IlWۤ{%rN.QwRLo!9I<c,8$S RnOSZJ N |NB;[{@5Vb$,o4mU?c߶tIp kz8~lqd ETg7X VrqhIkq>]c9" +5%n5u:=Z'^ |Z<28 Kts?v Us{ų묒?cCE4 ԼXQ6|%~SP3sNaO+#!/"m94˪rl+ADÔ cΞA$b$BQk8#;L^'wMUQXge;Lw8Ĺ sYG2!TqiU$pͭm`:䟔t% c$f2!9`,hhD#YwZ*Kl5'|eR}(y"OԍZY$Hc!VxVHPI`zXXN' >f;1 ŤGh c Tᒛ;,!?%۪[rF@_.scM5, ͭUNdrьW?ndZH*`+5?z+dIFb3ЌEi0è~ۃjdٴ3xu_[5/l7n>eИ^OpAzM*G%.6xF!Z5(tZ/9̟@W @ƿj r6ՖB$[72aY}(C:ΜW0NE+x3ofk;e ^bI}$Q6{Ra$ s|2V_T|b "o[p X)/ :z9vCޡ֨OR0 fI6U;:%IgX!ahM7ZzDŽZtT[NW"sYDF 6P$*Q '݋2&L *Ytc)bpcGZj-A=)X0 KwMA$h vbYov|7k9'cQwl\l`-AN1z/,Hv5aC_[R4B,7ɛXy=Vo DO'PE"{Ti ~J FTJθ؍EQx(wtR~fQ4We6\*oCJcЃOFF=E[QblleywHsor-Z`ש zdl,(C: I#5?.ƶ~]u y= 6Yhy=oPۮeA0˿gƹGFhgӊmw[0IɊK*4ԥ~Mi^umb9OZQz6]‚a/ה8{~,Ka,leq8\6Dep琫/s[ ߝFdb@12oWпWźA Mr)mv ?{` %*Yqk@ '%OEE5[\kq3kAU}K[ +ɥ\G'\l'5%4XWfbQZ.kF6.kU؈ŵZQ-Z죛 oeS~,vmyshՕ?s;aw( һةv9ڙCuO[g)đ8]EdT0w '[.Y TLTZexep 6\iBTHkyMVfSa^>-oZदc*J֝:jiLӍV| vm\*C^?&xUy|MFT:9O4ַze-%u>Y<3QcdihMU`>'wƽ=oZr?e=M;wHWk1^͛sŊ~NT' ΥbR0" ؚZՐ(k|)yQY,c倪7ƙqZ>B7n.P(43/uzB ݣJpGU.6BdS- tk:jsȔ**|`'X3RPE`V;mOђW)h-Du^p> <ݸ4fnr }>|(rWɣ䭋&N(i/YG h:fU:PQ>9esT9y|ԝeCMIqs?h3sDcgVmR2>"^ia%G MTٰ֔N{i@VGKóFK| Z06\% mPIXkbcYRscQ7~RᡎTp2#(4[g ggS[]Xn2 HL&n8(M KȅYE7Q{4:w{s鲬t/LNTjNZ+H6ݹ[c>,R\SY@Z5=}-lz"Cb㬎UmFQ@Ă|YfdсiNΕeckҹޠŝ}+?yQE^\ax +yeW&u^r۽~҄u4R1O5밌0[&V77Q[)xeBʠ)NtZ.v-.jhsOm؊O`vbUnЪ_IHلeF#=xG Gyš4Pt6wrCDPlKg-Ş:*ZCWON (f7zwyłg8= >pCɲ8LRKMkn-`fҴO/EDMPigS#-mਕhlڴZzxDv',V0yDUYY 4b^;%xRG^r?Po-_ 0̖V|B(BGǖ )x9ۓ!KLA=j܈+xV (Rpso*v Ő5#pDSo,>ಟ9,^hssL-4$"XqoaBLQߧXKJ¤A)Ո]RCϗɫ ɾNpNxR!¤Ez؎&\ϱd>L]i[@O`@E+]0n[:S1~ O4W; s6sr4%.2mb̈CO9vzp6}g9T.NDZUum=eZkT&>wHzm07iim#g;u%r&%4LB)$Z`O+}\}RƠdp3娓c\-촯~t׽y<4E=p1TWq xv$L =6ߴgP_>JR Ԩ0Zz׃8ꫛ۠%/-/ y"?7*L' I;FUdHmS? x,M-`CV+P-ψ"yjt>ܿKE{D=m \}ۥ_Е²`?\̖V\EQ٘LMDѣ* cA,"g)#HƣVv/_b*rvr3ZÙ׭2Ա=11m\`5n ŇA'΋\zN=&|R#r47ʰ&}yz֞@񭐼ݩfA)pGV|՗065TsZpxG@j0F-Yj1 8 w4^n'[*Wý_Uu[C}rvyZFrC)oiրTҕ*?oQ"6ۈd\E}Ւ. &d<=6@:2ZQxQP=Ћhs/0( wMK<.ױEYdQJ? -SV7g:jVVy/MDM^bN8oh0+eF U"L> 2)W5r=>V\y {Y̬Gٛ ?*6QBcx {˦-|9e(|#5u,͇F!(;܆lP*B&unZՇ\sorQ56fi"uF?4 ?l,O=&O~l9.3xgj"WVy8Vcڒ S3bNOZhHUyCcse2&vB_&v?=녹]vO >`Vjd\nMK2-pC^ CztPQP(cfQ𩳄N ~9E DҜzW,Dž$ߋE߁Ùٵͯ{.U+i>'?$ECi% U|r AqޓsYJg&ZʝZ`sͳnu0Ros0HqR9zYd1! j49ZM9ug,:nM?隻Ѿv%wzRuDJ1; 8wT)PUrB4tL"3#.иW/*D.qdɇN$`wZjXkDS1W0Gx&\=x2*\j}yZʩ9S^fu$, u1;oT&5Iҍ i!B}jȽ:Z 'wfl z]5bXOj~щ؀¾?p3'HF]@ c`͕u;SEU(mr彴r0` ȱ|Ǵn:d?E#^S珞+AIMXu<-TI0HICwew"gqQrî pl!k,rR,s?qdA(5(ohm(i$8'M+ 0 H>1<hɮ.y(Z*`өp_r?]D|R=Uz !rTl(^kD=Ͻd eӦ*(_KL|(jH[)~ڞZ-a}wJO~ >e2Nn5~ۋۋfYyY0x7цD\]cRh{)+܂Mv'x ~??CÍER8^S$:2Jȱ-׼*7g&X=,KW0Ȅy߳[BT) y{|o'bjiXomJ5Ҷ%{'XAYQl<9%$,l%cb j6-OVFv I*=' x@1{턝: 9LIP'R2"R6kh.Qe0?/BYp`iMKZ>E/F:^H5nuW ӬEvJLn?JPG!!Z}M[|UQ9JȈ)(Fk&8BY6كY'F2A$k2z8Tvu] n;YXfO`ɋB,)s#"$VeMڽ6f(DHJcAÌ5 )͞ \ϔM;EZ!-\ FZ ϾshT,Xy$49R3+ˌl)ԠZ+ǭ*{Ì̆ Wj&ʐA .3lNhp=3N$b/xLi^Kf+GcluAY޾@Ӑs;)TȤRl =]ѹn="DИI["cT5kv1XҸx|0C/8苟Fݎ4ݎ$Jͧ v_Z"[];?t[ ,g-bPld-oݜj B (ԆVlmjse׾na,ă~ѣLz oJtM,N7bK9|C+\o5B7'UG@\>W T* MTA ]`-/}&{}})|fxQ}OYΝgۿa),d5rsɥZ%qחP $WB=zʮONgkR2nzJzRoUj]ZtF} Z6ЙΛN+DZI^$nŲWi|60݅~ÂFn0Hvߒnhxxmu<ω}L@} UUV:K1!h6\P<~^ dGꕒa7X,UdI' Mı{zt2 8v`SHlm]N?i<pb 0VWLU_n9L-àH2)S=A%uQ[|^,$r=I9
    Enjoying the preview?
    Page 1 of 1