Ebook {Epub PDF} Far to Go by Alison Pick

7 rows ·  · Alison Pick, acclaimed author of The Sweet Edge, delivers the moving and suspenseful story of an Brand: HarperCollins Publishers.  · This idea is very much at the centre of Toronto writer Alison Pick's second novel, Far to Go. Anneliese, our narrator, is a Holocaust researcher; she is anti-social, friendless and alone. She Estimated Reading Time: 7 mins.  · Alison was the winner of the Bronwen Wallace Award for the most promising writer in Canada under Currently on Faculty at the Humber School for Writers and the Banff Centre for the Arts, she lives and writes in Toronto. ALISON PICK'S best-selling novel FAR TO GO was nominated for the Man Booker Prize and won the Canadian Jewish Book Award. It was a Top 10 Book of at /5.

Alison Pick is the author of three novels (The Sweet Edge, Far to Go, and Strangers With the Same Dream), two poetry collections and one memoir (Between Gods). She was born in Toronto, Ontario and grew up in Kitchener. In , she graduated from the University of Guelph with a B.A. in psychology. The strength of Far to Go lies in Pick's ability to show precisely why one person could turn on another, how a single word spoken on impulse could have devastating results." -- MontrealGazette Alison Pick, acclaimed author of The Sweet Edge, delivers the moving and suspenseful story of an affluentJewish family in Czechoslovakia at. Inspired by the harrowing five-year journey Alison Pick's own grandparents embarked upon from their native Czechoslovakia to Canada during the Second World War, Far to Go is an epic historical novel that traces one family's journey through these tumultuous and traumatic events. A layered, beautifully written, moving, and suspenseful story by.

Inspired by the harrowing five-year journey Alison Pick’s own grandparents embarked upon from their native Czechoslovakia to Canada during the Second World War, Far to Go is an epic historical novel that traces one family’s journey through these tumultuous and traumatic events. I am somewhat troubled by how under whelmed I was by Far to Go by Alison Pick.. This really should be a book that I have strong feelings about – it was, after all, a book I was quite excited to read, so much so that I requested a copy from the publisher; when have I ever been able to refuse a book about Czechoslovakia, never mind one set in the exciting years of 19and written by. Title: Far To Go Author: Alison Pick Date Published: May ISBN: Publisher: Harper Perennial Pages: Genre: Historical Fiction; Contemporary Fiction Rating: out of 5 Publisher’s Book Summary: When Czechoslovakia relinquishes the Sudetenland to Hitler, the powerful influence of Nazi propaganda sweeps through towns and villages like a sinister vanguard of the Reich's advancing army.