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  • The Life of John Metcalf, Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough

    Anecdotes of his exploits in hunting, card-playing, during the expedition against the rebels in 1745

    par John Metcalf ...
    In "The Life of John Metcalf, Commonly Called Blind Jack of Knaresborough," John Metcalf masterfully intertwines autobiography and biography, offering a vivid account of his remarkable journey through a world largely shaped by his blindness. Written in an engaging, accessible style, Metcalf'Äôs narrative reflects the resilience of the human spirit, capturing both the travails and triumphs of his ... En savoir plus

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  • The life of John Metcalf commonly called Blind Jack of Knaresborough

    par John Metcalf ...
    The narrative begins with Metcalf's early life in Knaresborough, England, where he adapted to his blindness with remarkable determination. Despite his disability, Metcalf led an active childhood, excelling in physical activities like swimming, horse riding, and playing the violin. He later found work as a musician and adventurer, but it was his work as a civil engineer that earned him lasting fame ... En savoir plus

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  • The Canadian Short Story

    par John Metcalf ...
    No other person has done more to celebrate and encourage the short story in Canada than John Metcalf. For more than five decades he has worked tirelessly as editor, anthologist, writer, critic, and teacher to help shape our understanding of the form and what it can do. The long-time editor of the yearly Best Canadian Stories anthology, as well as a fiction editor at some of the pre-eminent ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Best Canadian Stories

    Modifié par John Metcalf ...
    Now in its 47th year, Best Canadian Stories has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many of the writers, throughout their respective careers, who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Caroline Adderson, Margaret Atwood, Clark Blaise, Lynn Coady, Mavis Gallant, Zsuzsi Gartner, Douglas Glover, Steven Heighton, Isabel Huggan, Mark Anthony Jarman, Norman ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • Going Down Slow

    par John Metcalf ...
    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, prejudice, and temptations that are generations old. The writing is, as one would expect of anything ... En savoir plus

    $11.99 CAD

  • An Aesthetic Underground

    A Literary Memoir

    par John Metcalf ...
    Collections series Biblioasis Renditions Series
    "John Metcalf has written some of the very best stories ever published in this country."—Alice MunroThe Argus-eyed editor; the magisterial prose stylist; the waggish, inflammatory cultural critic; the mentor and iconoclast. John Metcalf is a literary legend whose memoir maps the underground he labored tirelessly to establish. ... En savoir plus

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Museum at the End of the World

    par John Metcalf ...
    Set in Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans, and Ottawa, Ontario, the stories in The Museum at the End of the World span the life of writer Robert Ford and his wife Sheila. Playing with various forms of comedy throughout, author John Metcalf paints a portrait of 20th century literary life with levity, satire, and unsuspecting moments of emotional depth. ... En savoir plus

    $15.99 CAD

  • Vital Signs

    The Collected Novellas

    par John Metcalf ...
    Vital Signs brings together the collected novellas by a modern master of the form, by a writer who Alice Munro has said "often comes as close to the baffling comedy of human experience as a writer can get." Elegant, wry, compassionate and mischievous, Vital Signs will pierce both funny bone and heart. ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • Finding Again the World

    Selected Stories

    par John Metcalf ...
    Collections series reSet Series
    Finding Again the World brings together a dozen of the best stories by John Metcalf, a modern master of the form. Spanning more than fifty years and ranging from some of his earliest published stories, such as “Dandelions” and “The Eastmill Reception Centre,” to his latest, with “Ceazer Salad” and “The Museum at the End of the World,” this current gathering shows a writer whose voice, at every ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Paving Our Ways

    A History of the World’s Roads and Pavements

    par John Metcalf, Kieran Sharp, Maxwell Lay ...
    Paving Our Ways covers the international history of road paving in an interesting, readable and technically accurate way. It provides an overview of the associated technologies in a historical context.It examines the earliest pavements in Egypt and Mesopotamia and then moves to North Africa, Crete, Greece and Italy, before a review of pavements used by the Romans in their magnificent road system. ... En savoir plus

    $83.99 CAD

  • Light Shining Out of Darkness

    And Other Stories

    par Hugh Hood ...
    Collections series ReSet
    Like the paintings of Jan Vermeer and Edward Hopper, Hugh Hood’s short fiction looks hard at what some might call the surface of things. Like the finely wrought realism of those canvases, Hood’s super-realist style doesn’t just see—it sees into. While his early publications prompted his reputation as an originator of Canadian modernism, Hood’s work taken as a whole reveals a philosophy far older: ... En savoir plus

    $9.99 CAD

  • Temerity & Gall

    par John Metcalf ...
    “[Metcalf’s] talent is generous, hectoring, huge, and remarkable.”—Washington PostIn Temerity & Gall, Metcalf looks back on a lifetime spent in letters; surveys, with no punches pulled, the current state of CanLit; and offers a passionate defense of the promise and potential of Canadian writing.In a 1983 editorial letter to the Globe and Mail, celebrated Canadian novelist W.P. Kinsella railed that ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD