Marina Endicott

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Marina Endicott


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Golden, BC, Canada
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Marina Endicott was born in Golden, BC, and grew up with three sisters and a brother, mostly in Nova Scotia and Toronto. She worked as an actor and director before going to England, where she began to write fiction. After London she went west to Saskatoon, where she was dramaturge at the Saskatchewan Playwrights Centre for many years before going farther west to Mayerthorpe, Alberta; she now lives in Edmonton. Her first novel, Open Arms, was short-listed for the Amazon/Books In Canada First Novel award in 2002. Her second, Good to a Fault, was a finalist for the 2008 Giller Prize and won the 2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book, Canada/Caribbean region. The Little Shadows, her latest book, longlisted for the 2011 Giller Prize, was ...more

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Good To A Fault

3.58 avg rating — 3,863 ratings — published 2008 — 19 editions
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The Little Shadows

3.32 avg rating — 906 ratings — published 2011 — 12 editions
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The Voyage of the Morning L...

3.62 avg rating — 675 ratings — published 2019 — 8 editions
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The Difference

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The Observer

3.80 avg rating — 365 ratings3 editions
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Close to Hugh

3.23 avg rating — 377 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions
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Strange Heaven

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Open arms

3.64 avg rating — 105 ratings — published 2001 — 2 editions
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New Year's Eve

3.06 avg rating — 49 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions
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Good to a Fault

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“Everybody was dying, or already dead, or leaving other people, and the year was dying into winter, and the only thing to do was make some noise.”
Marina Endicott, Good To A Fault

“Fear is always with us: that we are not good enough or strong enough, and so will fail; that we will be hurt. Fear that what we love will be taken from us. Fear of dying, even fear of God, or of no God. But God surprises us by giving us strength to bear what we must; by giving us joy when we think that nothing but sadness is possible.”
Marina Endicott, Good To A Fault

“She drove down the street, talking to herself furiously. I loved them too much. God is punishing me for loving people the way I should love God. Something was wrong there, too, that God would punish her, but she could not be bothered to think it through, because she was tired of God. Demand, demand, demand, and never any good to come of it except loneliness and despair, it was all--Enough. She'd had enough of all this. She would have revenge. She would go to movies by herself again, and go out for dinner wherever she wanted, and she would have a tidy house and a little job.”
Marina Endicott, Good To A Fault

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