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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

    $12.99 USD

  • 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

    $10.99 USD

  • 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

    $12.99 USD

  • 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

    $14.99 USD

  • 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 USD

  • 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 USD

  • 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

    $11.99 USD

  • The Stockton Saga 3

    A Man to Reckon With

    by Steven Douglas Glover ...
    The Stockton Saga continues. Deputy U.S. Marshal Cole Stockton must escort a fugitive who fled to Canada to avoid a murder warrant back to Judge Wilkersons court in Denver. With prisoner in tow, he discovers that his lady friend, horse rancher Laura Sumner, is overdue to deliver remounts to Fort Laramie in the Wyoming Territory.Stockton comes upon devastation. Three of Lauras men are dead, the ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Stockton Saga 2

    Star of Justice

    by Steven Douglas Glover ...
    The Stockton Saga continues. Cole Stockton, renowned gunfighter, swears in as Deputy United States Marshal; however, it takes more than a badge and a fast gun to deal with lawless elements in the wild Colorado Territory. It takes skill and steadfast determination in the face of overwhelming odds to enforce justice. Texas born Laura Lynne Sumner inherits her Uncle Jesses ranch after he is murdered ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • 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

    $14.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Gideon's Sword

    by Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child ...
    Narrated by John Glover ...
    Series series Gideon Crew Series

    Unabridged

    9 hours 58 min

    New York Times bestselling authors Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child pair up to present the unforgettable character Gideon Crew: trickster, prodigy, master and thief.At twelve, Gideon Crew witnessed his father, a world-class mathematician, accused of treason and gunned down.At twenty-four, summoned to his dying mother's bedside, Gideon learned the truth: His father was framed and deliberately ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • six@sixty

    by Alden Nowlan, Douglas Glover, Lynn Coady, Shauna Singh Baldwin, Kathryn Kuitenbrouwer, Mark Anthony Jarman ...
    To mark Goose Lane Editions's 60th anniversary, the editors at Goose Lane selected six tiny perfect stories for your reading pleasure. Authored by some of Canada's finest writers, they come from the sweep of Goose Lane's publishing history. Each story is part of this collection or they may be purchased individually in eBook singles. Here's what you can expect to find in this sexagenarian sextet ... Read more

    $8.99 USD