Fables Of Brunswick Avenue

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Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
ISBN 13 : 1554689643
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (546 download)

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Download or read book Fables Of Brunswick Avenue written by Katherine Govier and published by HarperCollins Canada. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Everyone lives on Brunswick Avenue sooner or later." So begins Fables of Brunswick Avenue, Katherine Govier’s first collection of short stories, which found her an audience that has expanded with each subsequent book. The 16 stories in this collection capture turning points in the lives of characters who have migrated to the city, and ended up -- as everyone inevitably does -- on Brunswick Avenue. A restaurateur in "The Garden" collects look-alike waitresses but discovers that, as one, they resist his advances. In "Responding to Pain," a woman rescues a suicidal friend, only to realize that she is angry enough to kill her. And in "Brunswick Avenue," a writer comes to understand that her neighbourhood is provisional, and in its draft stages, like her life. Infused with Govier’s magical ability to conjure time and place, Fables of Brunswick Avenue is about starting out, and starting over.

Fables of Brunswick Avenue

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Total Pages : 0 pages
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Katherine Govier Three-Book Bundle

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Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 1443442178
Total Pages : 1778 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Katherine Govier Three-Book Bundle written by Katherine Govier and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2014-12-16 with total page 1778 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oei is the daughter of the great Japanese printmaker Hokusai. Long consigned to a minor role as gloomy sidekick, she is barely a footnote in the historical record. In The Ghost Brush, Oei recounts her life with one of the great eccentrics of the 19th century. Dodging the Shogun’s spies, she and Hokusai live amongst actors, novelists, tattoo artists and prostitutes, making the exquisite pictures that define their time. Wielding her brush, Oei defies all expectations of womanhood but one—she is dutiful until death to the exasperating father who created her and, ultimately, steals her future. Vera Lowinger Drew is the last of a pearling dynasty. When she is left motherless, her only refuge is in Japan with her grandfather’s young mistress, among the legendary ama women divers. With their age-old strength to guide her, Vera comes into her own—until World War II turns her friends into “the enemy.” Three Views of Crystal Water crosses generations and continents with a story of love, war and the quest for the lustrous, elusive pearl. "Everyone lives on Brunswick Avenue sooner or later." So begins Fables of Brunswick Avenue, a collection of sixteen short stories that capture turning points in the lives of characters who have migrated to the city, and ended up—as everyone inevitably does—on Brunswick Avenue.

Toronto

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Publisher : arsenal pulp press
ISBN 13 : 9781551521466
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book Toronto written by Howard Akler and published by arsenal pulp press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unspoken treasures and hidden skeletons of Canada's largest city.

Creation

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Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307369315
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Creation written by Katherine Govier and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2010-08-13 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In a life so well-documented, these next few months form a rare gap. It is as if the dark cloud and fog Audubon sails into transcends mere weather, and becomes a state of mind. As if Labrador itself (or its weather) swallows the story.” His need to capture the fugitive colours of birds pushed John James Audubon into impossible places, none more dangerous than the fog-ridden coast of Labrador in the summer of 1833. In mesmerizing prose, novelist Katherine Govier explores this fateful summer in the life of a man as untamed as his subjects. Running two steps ahead of the bailiff, alternately praised and reviled by critics, John James Audubon set himself the audacious task of drawing, from nature, every bird in North America. The result was his masterpiece, The Birds of America, which he and his family published and sold to subscribers on both sides of the Atlantic. In June 1833, he enlisted his son and a party of young gentlemen to set sail for nesting grounds no ornithologist had ever seen, in the treacherous passage between Newfoundland and Labrador. Fogbound at Little Natashquan, he encounters Captain Henry Wolsey Bayfield of the Royal Navy, whose mission is to chart the labyrinthine coast to make it safe for sea traffic. Bayfield is an exacting and duty-bound aristocrat; the charismatic Audubon spins tales to disguise his dubious parentage and lack of training. Bayfield is a confirmed bachelor; Audubon is a married man in love with his young assistant. But the captain becomes the artist’s foil and his measuring stick, his judge and, oddly, the recipient of his long-held secrets. In this atmospheric and enthralling novel, Katherine Govier recreates the summer in which “the world’s greatest living bird artist” finally understood the paradox embedded in his art: that the act of creation was also an act of destruction.

Seen Reading

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Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1554810795
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Seen Reading written by Julie Wilson and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Selected as one of the Globe & Mail’s “Top 100 Books of 2012.” Seen Reading is the exciting and unique debut collection of microfictions by Julie Wilson, Canada’s pre-eminent literary voyeur. Based on the award-winning and critically acclaimed online movement of the same name, Seen Reading catalogues over a hundred reader sightings—brief descriptions of individuals Wilson has spied reading books in public, on Toronto’s transit system. Wilson then imaginatively expands on each sighting, re-inventing the seen reader in a poetic piece of short fiction. Tender and poignant, these fictions are love letters to the reader and, gathered together, form a beautifully inspired fictional map, joyfully charting an urban centre’s cultural commitment to books and literature in an era that continually predicts the demise of both.

Quarry

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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This Is My Country, What's Yours?

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Publisher : McClelland & Stewart
ISBN 13 : 1551994178
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Book Synopsis This Is My Country, What's Yours? by : Noah Richler

Download or read book This Is My Country, What's Yours? written by Noah Richler and published by McClelland & Stewart. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2007 B.C. Award for Canadian Non-fiction A Globe and Mail Best 100 Book (2006) National Post Best Books (2006) A bold cultural portrait of contemporary Canada through the work of its most celebrated novelists, short story writers, and storytellers. Stories are the surest way to know a place, and at a time when the fabric of the country seems daily more uncertain, Noah Richler looks to our authors for evidence of the true nature of Canada. He argues why fiction matters and seeks to discover — in the extra-ordinary diversity of communities these writers represent — what stories, if any, bind us as a nation. Over two years, Richler has criss-crossed the country and interviewed close to one hundred authors — a who’s who of Canadian literature, including Wayne Johnston, Michael Crummey, Alistair MacLeod, Gil Courtemanche, Jane Urquhart, Joseph Boyden, Miriam Toews, Yann Martel, Fred Stenson, Douglas Coupland, and Rohinton Mistry — about the places and ideas that are most meaningful to their work. The result is a journey through the reality of Canada and its imagination at a critical point in the country’s evolution. Within thematic chapters he exposes our “Myths of Disappointment” and considers the stories of our native peoples, the rise of the city, and how our history as a colony shapes our society and politics even today. This Is My Country, What's Yours? is an impassioned literary travelogue and a vivid portrayal of our society, the work of Canadian authors, and the idea of writing itself. This Is My Country, What's Yours? is based on Noah Richler’s ten-part documentary of the same name originally broadcast on CBC Radio’s flagship Ideas program in spring 2005.

Lifelines

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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773565582
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Book Synopsis Lifelines by : Christl Verduyn

Download or read book Lifelines written by Christl Verduyn and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1995-08-28 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christl Verduyn analyses Engel's work from a feminist literary perspective, examining Engel's concern with women's experiences and perception of the world, female identity and the social constraints on its development, female subjectivity and self, the mother-daughter relationship, and forces opposing women's artistic self-expression. Verduyn presents in-depth readings of both the novels and Engel's reflections on her experiences as a woman and a writer as found in her personal journals and other writings. Verduyn demonstrates the extent to which Engel's work not only deserves to be ranked with the best of Canadian literature but also enriches our understanding of women's experiences and broadens our view of women's worlds. Lifelines makes an important contribution to Canadian literature, women's studies, and the growing genre of life writing.

New York and Toronto Novels after Postmodernism

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Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 1571134891
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (711 download)

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Book Synopsis New York and Toronto Novels after Postmodernism by : Caroline Rosenthal

Download or read book New York and Toronto Novels after Postmodernism written by Caroline Rosenthal and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cities are material and symbolic spaces through which nations define their cultural identities. The great cities that have arisen on the North American continent have stimulated the imaginations of the United States and Canada in very different ways. This first comparative study of North American urban fiction starts out by delineating the sociohistorical and literary contexts in which cities grew into diverging symbolic spaces in American and Canadian culture. After an overview of recent developments in the cultural conception of urban space, the book takes New York and Toronto fiction as exemplary for exploring representations of the urban after postmodernism. It analyzes four twenty-first-century novels: two set in New York - Siri Hustvedt's What I Loved and Paule Marshall's The Fisher King - and two set in Toronto - Carol Shields's Unless and Dionne Brand's What We All Long For. While these texts continue to echo the specific traditions of nation building and canon formation in the United States and Canada, they also share certain features. All of them investigate the affective crossroads of the city while returning to a more realistic mode of representation. Caroline Rosenthal is Professor of American Literature at the Friedrich-Schiller University in Jena, Germany.

Canadian Literature Index

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Literature Index written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Ghost Brush

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Publisher : HarperPerennial
ISBN 13 : 9781554686445
Total Pages : 422 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (864 download)

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Book Synopsis The Ghost Brush by : Katherine Govier

Download or read book The Ghost Brush written by Katherine Govier and published by HarperPerennial. This book was released on 2011-07-18 with total page 422 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oei is the daughter of the great Japanese printmaker Hokusai. Long consigned to a minor role as gloomy sidekick, she is barely a footnote in the historical record. Here, Oei recounts her life with one of the great eccentrics of the 19th century. Dodging the Shogun's spies, she and Hokusai live amongst actors, novelists, tattoo artists and prostitutes, making the exquisite pictures that define their time. Disguised, they escape the city gates to view waves and Mount Fuji. But they return to enchanting, dangerous Edo (Tokyo), the largest city in the world. Wielding her brush, Oei defies all expectations of womanhood-- all but one. She is dutiful until death to the exasperating father who created her and, ultimately, steals her future. A breathtaking work of imagination, The Ghost Brush illuminates the most tender and ambiguous love of all--that between father and daughter.

Manufacturers Record

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Total Pages : 1914 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (126 download)

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Download or read book Manufacturers Record written by and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 1914 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A History of Canadian Fiction

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108304702
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book A History of Canadian Fiction written by David Staines and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of Canadian Fiction is the first one-volume history to chart its development from earliest times to the present day. Recounting the struggles and the glories of this burgeoning area of investigation, it explains Canada's literary growth alongside its remarkable history. Highlighting the people who have shaped and are shaping Canadian literary culture, the book examines such major figures as Mavis Gallant, Mordecai Richler, Alice Munro, Margaret Atwood, Michael Ondaatje, and Thomas King, concluding with young authors of today whose major successes reflect their indebtedness to their Canadian forbearers.

Creation

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Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1468303937
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (683 download)

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Download or read book Creation written by Katherine Govier and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2003-06-09 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable book about Audubon’s voyage to capture Birds of America is a “brilliantly insightful and ravishingly sensuous tale of adventure.” (Booklist) In this atmospheric and enthralling novel, Katherine Govier tells the story of the world's greatest living bird artist as he finally understands the paradox embedded in his art: that the act of creation is also an act of destruction. Running two steps ahead of the bailiff, alternately praised and reviled, John James Audubon set himself the audacious task of drawing, from nature, every bird in North America. The result was his masterpiece, The Birds of America. In June 1833, partway through his mission, he enlisted his son, Captain Bayfield of the Royal Navy, and a party of young gentlemen to set sail for nesting grounds no ornithologist had ever seen, in the treacherous passage between Newfoundland and Labrador. Creation explores the short, stormy summer throughout which the captain became the artist's foil, measuring stick, and the recipient of his long-held secrets. It is an exploration of that fateful expedition, a probing and imaginative narrative that fills in a gap in the visionary naturalist's well-documented life. “Carefully crafted and deeply thoughtful.” —Kirkus Reviews

Stories about Us

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Publisher : Nelson
ISBN 13 : 9780176414566
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (145 download)

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Book Synopsis Stories about Us by : Geri Dasgupta

Download or read book Stories about Us written by Geri Dasgupta and published by Nelson. This book was released on 2004 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diverse, inclusive, and multicultural, Stories about Us presents 43 engaging short stories from around the world. Offering a medley of readings in translation, this anthology includes stories written by authors from a variety of language backgrounds. Engaging and accessible, the editors' chose short fiction selections that would affect all readers irrespective of the writer's cultural or linguistic background.Prefaces place each selection in its cultural, historical, and literary context together with a brief biography of its author. Integrating reading and writing pedagogy, certain stories illustrate literary elements such as plot, character, setting, point of view, literary devices, theme and interpretation. Comprehension, analysis, and discussion questions follow.

The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521668132
Total Pages : 708 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (681 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English by : Lorna Sage

Download or read book The Cambridge Guide to Women's Writing in English written by Lorna Sage and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-30 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An alphabetized volume on women writers, major titles, movements, genres from medieval times to the present.