A treasure chest of exceptional stories by one of Canadas classic authorsall now available in one volume. Ernest Buckler, best known as the author of the Canadian classic, The Mountain and the Valley, never achieved the lasting fame he deserved. His first story was...

Editeur : Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Parution : 2011-04-07

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Bertram Brooker won the country's first Governor General's Award for literature in 1936 for his novel Think of the Earth, and his explosive, experimental paintings hang in every major gallery in the country. He was Canada's first multidisciplinary avant-gardist,...

Editeur : University of Ottawa Press
Parution : 2010-07-01

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Butterfly Tears is a collection of seventeen pieces of short fiction that depict the experiences of Chinese immigrant women facing the challenges of life in a new country. The stories are set in different parts of China, Canada, and to a lesser extent in the United...

Editeur : Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution : 2009-11-01

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Butterfly Tears is a collection of short fiction that depicts the experiences of Chinese immigrant women facing the challenges of life in a new country. The stories are set in different parts of China, Canada, and the United States and examine Chinese women’s...

Editeur : Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution : 2009-11-01

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Bertram Brooker won the country's first Governor General's Award for literature in 1936 for his novel Think of the Earth, and his explosive, experimental paintings hang in every major gallery in the country. He was Canada's first multidisciplinary avantgardist,...

Editeur : University of Ottawa Press
Parution : 2009-09-19

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Finalist, Trillium Book Award The stories in Animal depict people on the brink of major life change. Often at a crossroads they are oblivious to, Leggat?s characters seem to be captured in a cinematic slo-mo, teetering on the edge of something unknown, heroically...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2009-03-20

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Drinkin’ rye and water with Grandma. Guns in False Creek. Frat boy homies from the North Delta ghetto. Samuel L. Jackson. Phantom Lord & Metallica. A kid who’s got the hots for his mom… Hunh? That’s right. It’s all here in this collection of immediate, lean and visceral...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2008-12-13

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Pamela Stewart is a self-described ?literary proctologist,? and her writing often looks into places that people generally don?t want to look. The stories in Elysium are about the difficulties of life we all encounter as human beings, the fragility of life?the physical,...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2008-05-01

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Finalist, ReLit Awards (shortlist) Black Rabbit & Other Stories is a debut collection of great intensity and versatility. The stories range from the fantastic to the gritty, from urban dystopias to worlds of dreamlike possibility. Even in their frequent explorations of...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2007-07-08

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One Day It Happens is an eclectic collection of short stories by Mary Lou Dickinson, which deal in myriad forms with communication or lack thereof in the lives of the characters.One of the universal factors in human existence is the need to connect with one another....

Editeur : Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution : 2007-05-01

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One Day It Happens is an eclectic collection of short stories by Mary Lou Dickinson, which deal in myriad forms with communication or lack thereof in the lives of the characters.One of the universal factors in human existence is the need to connect with one another....

Editeur : Inanna Poetry and Fiction Series
Parution : 2007-05-01

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Fiction Pick, Broken Pencil Magazine Suburban Pornography is contemporary literature, which documents Canadian urban life in a raw and naked manner. The prose is stripped--minimalist, direct, urgent, unflinching. The stories revolve around ordinary characters and...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2006-10-25

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From the author of the bestselling FarFrom Home comes an unforgettable volume of Christmas stories and poetry set in modern-day Newfoundland. While drawing on her own memories of growing up in outport Newfoundland, Nellie Strowbridge recaptures sights and sounds of the...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2006-10-18

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Longlisted for a ReLit Award (2007) Alcuin Society Citation for Excellence in Design The stories in Sugar Bush & Other Stories deal with gender relations, love, and sex in a frank way. Most of the pieces feature female protagonists who navigate their young adult years...

Editeur : Anvil Press
Parution : 2006-10-15

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Pigeon Inlet is the setting for Ted Russell’s stories, written for radio between 1953 and 1961. Here you will meet not only Uncle Mose, but other characters whose names have become synonymous with traditional outport life: Grampa and Grandma Walcott, Skipper Joe, Aunt...

Editeur : Flanker Press
Parution : 2006-03-15

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Shortlisted for the Danuta Gleed Literary Award The innocence and clarity of Teri Vlassopoulos’s narrative voice reveals new and unexpected layers. The characters in these stories look for signs and omens as they attempt to understand events in their lives by framing...

Editeur : Invisible Publishing
Parution : 1999-12-31

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Stories Subversive offers a selection of Nellie McClung's best short fiction, which includes depictions of difficult rural living conditions in Western Canada as well as "consciousness-raising" stories reflecting the undue restrictions on women and the anti-female laws...

Editeur : University of Ottawa Press
Parution : 1997-10-17

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This is a collection of the published and previously unpublished short stories by Thomas Murtha, a Canadian writer born and raised in Ontario. Murtha was one of the notable experimental writers of the 1920s, but his work has been largely ignored by literary historians....

Editeur : University of Ottawa Press
Parution : 1980-01-01

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This is a collection of the published and previously unpublished short stories by Thomas Murtha, a Canadian writer born and raised in Ontario. Murtha was one of the notable experimental writers of the 1920s, but his work has been largely ignored by literary historians....

Editeur : University of Ottawa Press
Parution : 1980-01-01

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Known primarily as a poet, Isabella Valancy Crawford's short stories represent the best of early English-Canadian prose. In her stories, as in her poetry, her power lies in her use of imagery. In this collection her fictional portrayals of Canadian life give us glimpses...

Editeur : University of Ottawa Press
Parution : 1975-01-01

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