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22 produkter
Right to Be Wrong
Häftad, 2026
258 kr
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Religious or secular, fundamentalism is not unique to any particular political persuasion. To those in narrow-minded pursuit of ideological purity, disagreement is tantamount to treason and punishable by censure, ostracism, or cancellation. But how does this attitude shape how we engage with …
Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)
Thirteen Outsiders Who Changed Modern Music
E-bok, 2016
204 kr
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The days of poets moping around castle steps wearing black capes is over. The poets of today are amplified.” LEONARD COHENPicking up where Samuel Johnson left off more than two centuries ago, Ray Robertson’s Lives of the Poets (with Guitars) offers up an amplified gathering of thirteen portraits …
How to Die
A Book About Being Alive
Häftad, 2020
149 kr
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A radical revaluation of how contemporary society perceives death—and an argument for how it can make us happy.“He who would teach men to die would teach them to live,” writes Montaigne in Essais, and in How to Die: A Book about Being Alive, Ray Robertson takes up the challenge. Though contemporary …
How to Die
A Book About Being Alive
E-bok, 2020
172 kr
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A radical revaluation of how contemporary society perceives death—and an argument for how it can make us happy. “He who would teach men to die would teach them to live,” writes Montaigne in Essais , and in How to Die: A Book about Being Alive , Ray Robertson takes up the challenge. Though …
1979
A Novel
E-bok, 2018
137 kr
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It’s 1979 and Tom Buzby is thirteen years old and living in the small working- class city of Chatham, Ontario. So far, so normal. Except that Tom’s dad is the local tattoo artist, his mother is a born-again former stripper who’s run off with the minister from the church where the pet store used to …
Estates Large and Small
Häftad, 2022
156 kr
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Winner of Georgian Bay Reads 2025Profound, perceptive, and wryly observed, Estates Large and Small is the story of one man’s reckoning and an ardent defense of the shape books make in a life.What decades of rent increases and declining readership couldn’t do, a pandemic finally did: Phil Cooper has …
Estates Large and Small
E-bok, 2022
244 kr
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Profound, perceptive, and wryly observed, Estates Large and Small is the story of one man’s reckoning and an ardent defense of the shape books make in a life. What decades of rent increases and declining readership couldn’t do, a pandemic finally did: Phil Cooper has reluctantly closed his …
All the Years Combine
The Grateful Dead in Fifty Shows
Häftad, 2023
177 kr
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A Grateful Dead concert, Ray Robertson argues, is life. Like life, it can be alternately compelling and lackluster; familiar and foreign; occasionally sublime and sometimes insipid. Although the Grateful Dead stopped the day Jerry Garcia’s heart did, what the band left behind is the next best thing …
All the Years Combine
The Grateful Dead in Fifty Shows
E-bok, 2023
212 kr
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A Grateful Dead concert, Ray Robertson argues, is life. Like life, it can be alternately compelling and lackluster; familiar and foreign; occasionally sublime and sometimes insipid. Although the Grateful Dead stopped the day Jerry Garcia’s heart did, what the band left behind is the next best thing …
Dust
More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)
Häftad, 2025
177 kr
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“Robertson offers the whole picture, warts and all. In doing so, he honors the music of artists who have enriched his life—and opens the door for his readers to experience the same magic.”—Blues Blast MagazineIn Dust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars), Ray Robertson digs deep, offering up an …
Dust
More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)
E-bok, 2025
254 kr
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Robertson offers the whole picture, warts and all. In doing so, he honors the music of artists who have enriched his lifeand opens the door for his readers to experience the same magic.Blues Blast MagazineIn Dust: More Lives of the Poets (with Guitars), Ray Robertson digs deep, offering up an …
Moody Food
E-bok, 2012
107 kr
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From critically acclaimed novelist Ray Robertson comes a rollicking Great Gatsby of the 60s – a sex, drugs, and rock’n’roll-suffused modern tragedy. As Bill Hansen recounts the rise and fall of Thomas Graham and his musical vision, he simultaneously tells the story of frustrated idealism and the …
Why Not?
Fifteen Reasons to Live
E-bok, 2011
172 kr
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Featured on The Hour with George Stroumboulopoulos. SHORTLISTED FOR THE $60,000 HILARY WESTON WRITERS'' TRUST PRIZE FOR NONFICTION Longlisted for the $25,000 Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction. "Clear-eyed ... Robertson is no stranger to confronting unsavoury truths."—Steven Beattie, …
David
E-bok, 2012
259 kr
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Set in nineteenth-century Chatham, David ''s rebellious hero breaks us in to a little-known place and time in black history.
I Was There the Night He Died
E-bok, 2014
253 kr
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A drug-foggy, record-flipping novel about mental illness, mid-life loss, music, suburban loneliness, and weird-ass friendship.
Heroes
Häftad, 2000
160 kr
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Heroes tells the story of Peter Bayle - heavy drinker, philosopher, scholar, and anemic lover - as he visits a town in Kansas to write a story for Toronto Living magazine about the newfound love of middle-America for the quintessential Canadian game of hockey. During his research Bayle encounters a …
Lives of the Poets (with Guitars)
Thirteen Outsiders Who Changed Modern Music
Häftad, 2016
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
142 kr
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"The days of poets moping around castle steps wearing black capes is over. The poets of today are amplified." -- LEONARD COHEN Picking up where Samuel Johnson left off more than two centuries ago, Ray Robertson's Lives of the Poets (with Guitars) offers up an amplified gathering of thirteen …
1979
A Novel
Häftad, 2018
159 kr
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It’s 1979 and Tom Buzby is thirteen years old and living in the small working- class city of Chatham, Ontario. So far, so normal. Except that Tom’s dad is the local tattoo artist, his mother is a born-again former stripper who’s run off with the minister from the church where the pet store used to …
Heroes
Häftad, 2015
184 kr
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"Ray Robertson is an irrepressible voice, with brass balls and a heart of gold."-Jonathan Evison Peter Bayle-heavy drinker, philosopher, scholar, anemic lover-is in Kansas, writing a feature on middle America's newfound love for hockey. There he meets a morphine-injecting reverend, a reviled …
