num_pages: 240
description: Fifteen stories about life in rural Ontario deal with adolescence, loneliness, broken hearts, an abandoned wife, family relations, blind dates, and an aspiring writer
language: English
title: Dance of the Happy Shades: And Other Stories
titlecomplete: Dance of the Happy Shades: And Other Stories
genres: Fiction, Short Stories, Canadian Literature, Canada, Literature, Classics, Nobel Prize, Contemporary, 20th Century, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 3953
places: Canada
awards: awardedAt: 126259200000
name: Great Lakes Colleges Association New Writers Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: -63129600000
name: Governor General's Literary Awards / Prix littéraires du Gouverneur général
category: Fiction
publisher: Viking Pr