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  • Attack of the Copula Spiders

    Essays on Writing

    by Douglas Glover ...
    appropriate for both academics and general readersuseful as a teaching tool for creative writing instructors (university or advanced high school groups)written by a professional writer who has taught creative writing for over 20 yearsexamples of bad student writing may amuse teachers of Englishby the author of the bestselling Elle (2003), shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award and winner ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Erotics of Restraint

    Essays on Literary Form

    by Douglas Glover ...
    Why do we read? What do we cherish in a book? What is the nature of a masterpiece? What do Alice Munro, Albert Camus, and the great Polish experimentalist Witold Gombrowicz have in common? In the tradition of Nabokov, Calvino, and Kundera, Douglas Glover’s new essay collection fuses his long experience as an author with his love of philosophy and his passion for form. Call it a new kind of ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD

  • The Life and Times of Captain N.

    by Douglas Glover ...
    Douglas Glover's acclaimed novel The Life and Times of Captain N. is now available in a GLE Library edition. Originally published by McClelland & Stewart, the novel was acclaimed by the most respected critics in Canada and the US, and compelled The Toronto Star's Philip Marchand to call Glover "one of the most important Canadian writers of his generation." Set on the Niagara frontier in the final ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • A Guide to Animal Behaviour

    by Douglas Glover ...
    Shortlisted, Governor General’s Award for FictionA Guide to Animal Behaviour is a stunning collection of stories by an author who is fast becoming one of the great, innovative story writers of his generation. Following on the heels of his widely acclaimed comic novel, The South Will Rise at Noon, Douglas Glover’s new collection smashes all the fictional moulds. Urbane, stylish, and off-beat, the ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Savage Love

    by Douglas Glover ...
    Savage Love marks the long-awaited literary return of one of Canada’s most lauded and stylistically brilliant authors. Slyly holding forth with subversive wit, Glover skewers every conventional notion we’ve ever held about that cultural/emotional institut ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Precious

    by Douglas Glover ...
    Douglas Glover's raucous first novel was a finalist for the Books in Canada First Novel Award and sold out its first and only print run in just one month. Now mystery fans and readers of literary fiction alike can once again enjoy this witty post-modern detective tale by the author of Elle. The eponymous central character in Precious is a boozy, burned-out reporter with an embarrassing nickname ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Elle

    by Douglas Glover, Lawrence Mathews ...
    A 16th-century belle turned Robinson Crusoe, a female Don Quixote with an Inuit Sancho Panza — this is the heroine of the novel that won the 2003 Governor General’s Award. Elle is a lusty, subversive riff on the discovery of the New World, the moment of first contact. Based on what might be a true story, the novel chronicles the ordeals and adventures of a young French woman marooned on the ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The South Will Rise at Noon

    by Douglas Glover ...
    Hot on the heels of Douglas Glover's Governor General's Award for fiction for his riotous novel, Elle, Goose Lane brought back into print Glover's hilarious novel, The South Will Rise at Noon, originally published in 1988. At the centre of this story of a modern-day knight errant is Tully Stamper, a bankrupt, a liar, a tippler of corn juice and a deadbeat husband who has abandoned his wife and ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Woman Gored by Bison Lives

    by Douglas Glover ...
    The beguiling "Woman Gored by Bison Lives" is from Douglas Glover's 1991 Governor General Award-nominated story collection, A Guide to Animal Behaviour. Published on the occasion of Goose Lane Editions's 60th anniversary, it is also part of the six@sixty collection. ... Read more

    $2.99 CAD

  • Reflections of a Heart

    Pot Liquor for the Soul

    by Waymond Douglas Glover AKA "Wayne ...
    This is a novel based on a true story about a teenager who took his father's car joyriding one night just for fun. He was pulled over and arrested and sent to a detention center for fifteen months and twenty-three days. Unbeknown to him at this time, that his life would never be the same. The punishment would leave him bitter for a very long time and his parents absences during his months of ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Stockton Saga 5

    Stockton’s Law

    by Steven Douglas Glover ...
    The Stockton Saga continues. It is 1879 and lands west of the Mississippi are still the Wild West and rife with lawlessness. Colorado, within the infancy of statehood, is alive with gold discoveries, open range for cattle, and new settlers. Wealthy, powerful men are looking to take over and control the state their own way. Gangs of outlaws harass settlers, stagecoaches are being robbed, and range ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD

  • The Stockton Saga

    Dawn of the Gunfighter

    by Steven Douglas Glover ...
    Flint Stockton served gallantly at San Jacinto and afterward moved northward intent on gathering stray cattle and horses to start a ranch. He meets Johanna McKenna on a westward wagon train; they marry and strike out on their own to build a family along the Comanche Trace, the ancient Comanche war trails.Their first son, Cole, seems born to the gun. It is a wild, untamed, lawless land in an era ... Read more

    $5.99 CAD