Biblioasis – serie
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14 produkter
From Sarajevo With Sorrow
Av Goran Simic
Häftad, 2005
297 kr
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When Sprinting from the Graveyard was published in 1997, Goran Simic's poems were severely altered out of the fear that they might offend "Western sensibilities." These newly translated poems restore all that is offensive, despairing and necessary to our understanding of war by capturing the poems' …
They Call Me George
The Untold Story of The Black Train Porters
Av Cecil Foster
Häftad, 2019
252 kr
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A CBC BOOKS MUST-READ NONFICTION BOOK FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTHNominated for the Toronto Book AwardSmartly dressed and smiling, Canada’s black train porters were a familiar sight to the average passenger—yet their minority status rendered them politically invisible, second-class in the social …
My Town
Faces of Windsor
Häftad, 2006
255 kr
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My Town brings together more than 70 snapshots of the people and places that have called Windsor home. More than this, they have made Windsor, for better and for worse, the city it is today. Some of these faces you will recognize; others will have slipped beneath the radar. Marty has sought them …
Selected Essays
Av Clark Blaise, John Metcalf m. fl.
Häftad, 2009
348 kr
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Clark Blaise's Selected Essays brings together another aspect of his tremendous and courageous oeuvre: belle lettres, essays and occasional pieces which range over autobiography, his French-Canadan heritage, the craft of fiction, American fiction, Australian fiction, and the work of such individual …
Attack of the Copula Spiders
Essays on Writing
Häftad, 2012
276 kr
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A GLOBE & MAIL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR 2012 "Glover is a master of narrative structure." --Wall Street Journal In the tradition of E.M. Forster, John Gardner, and James Wood, Douglas Glover has produced a book on writing at once erudite, anecdotal, instructive, and amusing. Attack of the Copula …
Psychology and Other Stories
Av C. P. Boyko
Häftad, 2012
259 kr
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FINALIST FOR THE ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE FINALIST FOR THE VICTORIA BUTLER BOOK PRIZE "C.P. Boyko's second offering is brilliantly bold. Playful and dire and scholarly all at once, Psychology may well be the most audaciously original collection of Canadian fiction, ever. Mr. Mustard alone is …
Cape Breton is the Thought-Control Centre of Canada
Av Ray Smith
Häftad, 2006
217 kr
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First published in 1969, Ray Smith's Cape Breton is the Thought-Control Centre of Canada remains as refreshing, innovative and important today as it has in every previous incarnation. Sophisticated, playful, crafted, sly, self-referential and extremely funny, it marks the beginning of a long and …
Fail Better
Why Baseball Matters
Häftad, 2017
166 kr
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"Mark Kingwell is a beautiful writer, a lucid thinker and a patient teacher ...His insights are intellectual anchors in a fast-changing world. " --Naomi Klein "[Mark Kingwell] illuminates on almost every page. " --Los Angeles Times "Kingwell's musings on angling inevitably lead to in-depth essays …
Going Down Slow
Av John Metcalf
Häftad, 2007
231 kr
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First published in 1972, Going Down Slow is an intense and very funny novel about one mans attempt to maintain his sanity, and his sense of humour, in the face of mounting odds. Metcalf's young hero, David Appleby, a young school teacher just over from Britain, is pitted against small-mindedness, …
Three Balconies
Stories and a Novella
Inbunden, 2008
257 kr
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In the foreword to his "The Collected Short Fiction", Bruce Jay Friedman wrote: 'In her late years, my mother confessed to me that she had dropped me on my head when I was two. As I've grown older, I've come to believe that her presumably innocent mistake resulted in the 'tilted' quality I've been …
Idler's Glossary
Av Joshua Glenn, Mark Kingwell
Häftad, 2008
131 kr
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"Dawdler." "Layabout." "Shit-heel." "Loser." For as long as mankind has had to work for a living, which is to say ever since the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, people who work have disparaged those who prefer not to. Mark Kingwell's introductory essay offers a playful defence of …
Lily Pond
A Memoir of Madness, Memory, Myth and Metamorphosis
Av Mike Barnes
Häftad, 2008
188 kr
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A memoir that chronicles unflinchingly the destructiveness of bipolar disorder - an illness that infiltrates thinking, feeling and acting in ways that change the very fabric of identity, of the life story one is telling oneself; however, The Lily Pond is equally searching in its exploration of the …
Once
Häftad, 2008
190 kr
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Rebecca Rosenblum's Once is a fiercely original and assured debut, a collection of sixteen stories portraying the constricted and confused lives of the rootless twenty-somethings -- students, office techies, waitresses, warehouse labourers, street hustlers -- who inhabit them. These are stories …
