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  • Caprice

    par George Bowering ...
    Collections series Bowering's BC History Trilogy
    It's the mid 1890s in Kamloops, British Columbia. Two men argue over a bottle of whisky and in the struggle Frank Spencer, an American outlaw-turned-farmhand, kills Pete Foster, a French-Canadian and fellow farmhand.Enter Caprice: a vision and a brain. Almost six feet tall, with flaming red hair and long legs, and toting a lethal bullwhip, she sets out to avenge her brother's murder. Travelling ... En savoir plus

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  • Swamp Angel

    Collections series New Canadian Library
    Walking out on a demoralizing second marriage, Maggie Lloyd leaves Vancouver to work at a fishing lodge in the interior of British Columbia. But the serenity of Maggie’s new surroundings is soon disturbed by the irrational jealousy of the lodge-keeper’s wife. Restoring her own broken spirit, Maggie must also become a healer to others. In this, she is supported by her eccentric friend, Nell ... En savoir plus

    Prix courant $15.99 CAD Maintenant $12.99 CAD

  • The Hockey Scribbler

    par George Bowering ...
    Hockey forms the backdrop of our lives. For many Canadians, the big moments — births, deaths, marriages, moves — are all mixed up with the wins and losses of our teams. The voices of Hockey Night in Canada sportscasters are our soundtrack, and visions of skates scraping across the ice lull us to sleep.George Bowering, Canada’s former poet laureate, is no different. Growing up in Oliver, BC, ... En savoir plus

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  • Burning Water

    par George Bowering ...
    Collections series Bowering's BC History Trilogy
    First published in 1980 to high acclaim, Burning Water won a Governor General's Award for fiction that year. A rollicking chronicle of Captain Vancouver's search for the Northwest Passage, the book has over its career been mentioned in recommended lists of postmodern fiction, BC historical fiction, gay fiction and humour. This gives you some idea of the scope of what has been called Bowering's ... En savoir plus

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  • Shoot!

    par George Bowering ...
    Collections series Bowering's BC History Trilogy
    Cowboys and Indians, sometimes one and the same, occupy the rugged landscape of the late nineteenth-century British Columbia interior in George Bowering's Shoot! Meet the McLean Gang — brothers Allan, Charlie, and Archie — and their sidekick Alex Hare. Halfbreeds who grew up bitter outcasts, rejected by both white and Indian worlds, they roam the ranch country around Kamloops on a wild spree of ... En savoir plus

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  • The Dad Dialogues

    A Correspondence on Fatherhood (and the Universe)

    George Bowering: George Bowering is a novelist, poet, editor, professor, and historian; at age 80, has written more than 80 books, including poetry, fiction, autobiography, biography, and young-adult fiction. He was the first Poet Laureate of Canada, and has twice won the Governor General’s Literary Award in Canada.Charles Demers: Charles Demers is an author, stand-up comedian, and creative ... En savoir plus

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  • Soft Zipper

    Object, Food, Rooms

    par George Bowering ...
    With an introduction by Lisa Robertson"There is no there there" Gertrude Stein's famous phrase about the Oakland she grew up in, applies to the Oliver, BC of George Bowering's youth. What is to be found there, as Stein demonstrated, are objects, and rooms, and food.George Bowering's newest book delights in the thing-iness of memory. Understanding himself as an object among objects, Bowering ... En savoir plus

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  • No One

    par George Bowering ...
    A risqu autobiographical novel that fictionalizes the sexual adventures of the authors younger daysIn 2012, acclaimed writer George Bowering published Pinboy, a fictional memoir of his teenage sexual awakening. With No One, Bowering returns to play with form and fact in this autobiographical novel that continues the narrators journey in a quest story full of further sexual awakenings as that ... En savoir plus

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  • Writing and Reading

    Essays

    par George Bowering ...
    George Bowering has been provoking and inspiring writers and readers for half a century. While he may be better known for his poetry and fiction, the essay holds an equally important place in his work.Writing and Reading includes discussions of writers (ranging from Michael Ondaatje and Alice Munro to Oana Avasilichioei and Robert Kroetsch), difficult poetry and close reading (from Gerard Manley ... En savoir plus

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  • The Heart Does Break

    Canadian Writers on Grief and Mourning

    A book in which some of our best writers address their own losses — and help us endure our own…A heartbreaking, comforting and beautiful collection of true stories about grief and mourning from some of Canada’s best known writers.When Jean Baird’s daughter, Bronwyn, died suddenly, Jean’s deep instinct was to turn to books to help her in her time of sudden loss. Although she found that the thoughts ... En savoir plus

    $13.99 CAD

  • Mirror on the Floor

    par George Bowering ...
    Reissued as part of Anvil Press's Lost BC Literature seriesSet in Vancouver in the mid-1960s, Mirror on the Floor focuses on one summer in the life of UBC grad student Bob Small and his roommate, George Delsing.They spend their time carousing the downtown eastside and engaging in conversations with the old-timers—dockworkers, unemployed loggers, and retired seamen. They study, smoke cigarettes, ... En savoir plus

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  • Barefoot Gringo

    par George Bowering ...
    Bringing a seasoned and highly regarded Canadian voice to the travel writing tradition, George Bowering unveils a deep love of life, food, and all things Mexico. Drawing on his time spent as a foreigner in Latin America, Bowering traces his footsteps to linger on the joy found in the little things.Barefoot Gringo, set against a Mexican backdrop, ventures beyond travel and into engaging discussions ... En savoir plus

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