Hellgoing

Hellgoing
First edition cover
Author	Lynn Coady
Country	Canada
Language	English
Genre	fiction
Publisher	House of Anansi Press
Publication date	2013
Media type	Print (paperback)
ISBN	9781770893085
OCLC	854899663

Hellgoing is a short story collection by Canadian writer Lynn Coady. Published in 2013 by House of Anansi Press, the book was the winner of the 2013 Scotiabank Giller Prize,^[1] and was a shortlisted nominee for the 2013 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.^[2]

The book gained renewed attention in 2014, when broadcaster Jian Ghomeshi cited the story "An Otherworld", which contained some BDSM themes, in his public statement denying allegations of sexual harassment against him.^[3]

Stories

"Wireless"
"Hellgoing"
"Dogs in Clothes"
"Take this and Eat It"
"An Otherworld"
"Clear Skies"
"The Natural Elements"
"Body Condom"
"Mr. Hope"

References

↑ "Lynn Coady wins 2013 Giller Prize for Hellgoing". National Post, November 5, 2013.
↑ "Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize nominees: Lynn Coady". Maclean's, November 18, 2013.
↑ "The Canadian short story referenced in Ghomeshi’s Facebook post". The Globe and Mail, October 27, 2014.

Recipients of the Giller Prize

1990s	M. G. Vassanji, The Book of Secrets (1994) Rohinton Mistry, A Fine Balance (1995) Margaret Atwood, Alias Grace (1996) Mordecai Richler, Barney's Version (1997) Alice Munro, The Love of a Good Woman (1998) Bonnie Burnard, A Good House (1999)

2000s	Michael Ondaatje, Anil's Ghost / David Adams Richards, Mercy among the Children (2000) Richard B. Wright, Clara Callan (2001) Austin Clarke, The Polished Hoe (2002) M. G. Vassanji, The In-Between World of Vikram Lall (2003) Alice Munro, Runaway (2004) David Bergen, The Time in Between (2005) Vincent Lam, Bloodletting & Miraculous Cures (2006) Elizabeth Hay, Late Nights on Air (2007) Joseph Boyden, Through Black Spruce (2008) Linden MacIntyre, The Bishop's Man (2009)

2010s	Johanna Skibsrud, The Sentimentalists (2010) Esi Edugyan, Half-Blood Blues (2011) Will Ferguson, 419 (2012) Lynn Coady, Hellgoing (2013) Sean Michaels, Us Conductors (2014) André Alexis, Fifteen Dogs (2015) Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing (2016)

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