Vancouver Short Stories

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Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780774802284
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (22 download)

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Book Synopsis Vancouver Short Stories by : Carole Gerson

Download or read book Vancouver Short Stories written by Carole Gerson and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In a sense, we haven’t got an identity until somebody tells our story. The fiction makes us real."--Robert Kroetsch in Creation Spanning a period of nearly eighty years, the stories in this collection present the experience of living in Vancouver as filtered through the imagination of many of Canada’s most famous writers. The romantic attitude of some of the early writers is balanced by the more sombre version of many later authors, some of whom show the city as a place of loneliness and corruption. In tone, the stories range from the grimness of Dorothy Livesay’s account of Depression misery, to the irony of Ethel Wilson’s narrative of an evening garden party, to the playfulness of George Bowering’s ellipticla story of student life. Other well-known atuhors include Pauline Johnson, Emily Carr, Malcolm Lowry, Audrey Thomas, Alice Munro, and Joy Kogawa--as well as some who have been undeservedly consigned to obscurity--M.A. Grainger, Bertrand Sinclair, Jean Burton, and William McConnell. The more prolific among the younger writers--Frances Duncan, Cynthia Flood, and Kevin Roberts--are in the process of achieving national recognition. The stories evoke a strong sense of place, of Vancouver’s essential relation to its natural setting--forest, mountains, and sea--and its existence as a modern urban centre. Individual episodes recall the great fire of 1886, turn-of-the-century loggers on Cordova Street, rum-running in the twenties, the internment of Japanese-Canadians after Pearl Harbor, the hippie era, and the modern sub-culture of beer parlours and drugs. Particular locales include downtown streets, the east end, the North Shore, U.B.C, Stanley Park, Kitsilano, and the Vancouver Aquarium. Stories of the city’s social and cultural life describe the process of growing up and growing old, family and marital matters, the Chinese community, and the legends and reality of Native Americans. Vancouver Short Stories indicates some of the ways that a particular locality has been transformed into art that, in turn, enriches our understanding of its reality and enhances our sense of identity.

People Like Frank

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ISBN 13 : 9781777010164
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (11 download)

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Book Synopsis People Like Frank by : Jenn Ashton

Download or read book People Like Frank written by Jenn Ashton and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the edge of normal, challenges take many forms--the everyday can be an adventure and the ordinary a triumph. In this uplifting collection, award-winning artist, poet and author Jenn Ashton explores the world through the eyes of protagonists whose perspectives are informed by the challenges they face.

Vancouver Noir

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Publisher : Akashic Books
ISBN 13 : 1617756849
Total Pages : 185 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (177 download)

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Book Synopsis Vancouver Noir by : Linda L. Richards

Download or read book Vancouver Noir written by Linda L. Richards and published by Akashic Books. This book was released on 2018-11-06 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “excellent anthology” of noir fiction set in Canada’s City of Glass features all-new stories by Linda L. Richards, Sam Wiebe, Yasuko Thanh and more (Quill & Quire, starred review). For many people, Vancouver is a city of affluence, athleisure, and craft beer. But if look a little closer at this gentrified paradise, you’ll find the old saying holds true: behind every fortune there’s a crime. Hidden beneath Vancouver’s gleaming glass skyscrapers are shadowy streets where poverty, drugs, and violence rule the day. These fourteen stories of crime and mayhem in the Pacific Northwest offer an entertaining “mix of wily pros, moody misfits, bewildered bystanders, and a touch of the supernatural” (Kirkus). Vancouver Noir features the Arthur Ellis Award-winning story “Terminal City” by Linda L. Richards, and the Arthur Ellis Award-finalist “Wonderful Life” by Sam Wiebe. It also includes entries by Timothy Taylor, Sheena Kamal, Robin Spano, Carleigh Baker, Dietrich Kalteis, Nathan Ripley, Yasuko Thanh, Kristi Charish, Don English, Nick Mamatas, S.G. Wong, and R.M. Greenaway.

Vancouver for Beginners

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ISBN 13 : 9781771665346
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (653 download)

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Book Synopsis Vancouver for Beginners by : Alex Leslie

Download or read book Vancouver for Beginners written by Alex Leslie and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 Western Canada Jewish Book Awards, The Lohn Foundation Prize for Poetry In Vancouver for Beginners, the nostalgia of place is dissected through the mapping of a city where readers are led past surrealist development proposals, post-apocalyptic postcards, childhood landmarks long gone and a developer who paces at the city's edge, shoring it up with aquariums. In these poems you will traverse a city lined with rivers, not streets. Memory traps and tourist traps reveal themselves, and the ocean glints, elusive, in the background. Here there are many Vancouvers and no Vancouver, a city meant for elsewhere after the flood has swept through. This place of the living and the dead has been rewritten: forests are subsumed by parks, buildings sink and morph, and the climate has changed. Vancouver for Beginners is a ghost story, an elegy, a love song for a city that is both indecipherable and a microcosm of a world on fire. Praise for Alex Leslie: Alex Leslie is a tremendously gifted and compassionate writer. This bold and searing collection is a wonder. --Madeleine Thien, Scotiabank Giller Prize winning author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing A magnetic collection that must be read over and over. --Kirkus Reviews

Vancouver

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Publisher : HarperFlamingo
ISBN 13 : 9780002006583
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (65 download)

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Book Synopsis Vancouver by : David Cruise

Download or read book Vancouver written by David Cruise and published by HarperFlamingo. This book was released on 2003 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating cast of characters populate the city of Vancouver in a story that stretches from the last Ice Age to the present day.

The Jade Peony

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Publisher : D & M Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1926706765
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (267 download)

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Book Synopsis The Jade Peony by : Wayson Choy

Download or read book The Jade Peony written by Wayson Choy and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2009-12-01 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three siblings tell the stories of their very different childhoods in Vancouver's Chinatown before and during World War II.

The Last Gang in Town

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Publisher : Arsenal Pulp Press
ISBN 13 : 1551526727
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (515 download)

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Book Synopsis The Last Gang in Town by : Aaron Chapman

Download or read book The Last Gang in Town written by Aaron Chapman and published by Arsenal Pulp Press. This book was released on 2016-11-21 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of a year-long confrontation in 1972 between the Vancouver police and the Clark Park gang, a band of unruly characters who ruled the city’s east side. Corrupt cops, hapless criminals, and murder figure in this story that questions which gang was tougher: the petty criminals, or the police themselves. This publication meets the EPUB Accessibility requirements and it also meets the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG-AA). It is screen-reader friendly and is accessible to persons with disabilities. A Simple book with few images, which is defined with accessible structural markup. This book contains various accessibility features such as alternative text for images, table of contents, page-list, landmark, reading order and semantic structure.

Bad Endings

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ISBN 13 : 9781772140767
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (47 download)

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Book Synopsis Bad Endings by : Carleigh Baker

Download or read book Bad Endings written by Carleigh Baker and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carleigh Baker likes to make light in the dark. Whether plumbing family ties, the end of a marriage, or death itself, she never lets go of the witty, the ironic, and perhaps most notably, the awkward. Despite the title, the resolution in these stories isn't always tragic, but it's often uncomfortable, unexpected, or just plain strange. Character digressions, bad decisions, and misconceptions abound.

Vancouver Kids

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Publisher : Brindle and Glass
ISBN 13 : 1897142528
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (971 download)

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Book Synopsis Vancouver Kids by : Lesley McKnight

Download or read book Vancouver Kids written by Lesley McKnight and published by Brindle and Glass. This book was released on 2011-03 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collects twenty-two stories in which children explain the history and culture of Vancouver.

The Vancouver Stories

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Publisher : Raincoast Books
ISBN 13 : 9781551927954
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book The Vancouver Stories written by and published by Raincoast Books. This book was released on 2005 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The city of Vancouver means different things to different people, but it is as revered and beloved by its residents as it is by the millions of people who visit every year. It's a diverse, thrumming metropolis and a calm and beautiful recreation destination; it's a young city still striving for identity and a storied settlement rich in legend. And it has been both the inspiration and setting for some of Canada's most interesting fiction.Framed by an incisive introduction from West Coast literary doyen Douglas Coupland, the wide array of short fiction collected in Vancouver Stories reveals just how varied Vancouver really is. Discover this great city through the stories of Pauline Johnson and Emily Carr, through the eyes of such 20th-century literary giants as Alice Munro, Ethel Wilson and Malcolm Lowry, and through the words of more contemporary writers such as William Gibson, Timothy Taylor, Zsuzsi Gartner and Madeline Thien.Spanning a period of nearly 80 years, the 15 stories in this collection present the experience of Vancouver-living here, visiting or just passing through-filtered through the imaginations of some of Canada's most famous fiction stylists."Sooner or later, everyone in the country came to this city by the mountains and the sea. Some just to ogle, many to stay. People here liked it with something that bordered on religious fervour." -from "City of My Dreams" by Zsuzsi Gartner

Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth

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Publisher : House of Anansi
ISBN 13 : 1487010346
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (87 download)

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Book Synopsis Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth by : Christopher Evans

Download or read book Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth written by Christopher Evans and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 2022-02-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In stories both absurd and all-too-real, Christopher Evans paints a portrait of the uncanniness of modern life. The president of a holistic dog food company is haunted by a pop song from her past. Nine siblings band together to raise themselves after parental abandonment. A domestic argument reveals a woman’s supernatural gift. A failing musician finds his calling soundtracking another man’s life. Christopher Evans's stories are people with strays — those who fall for the allure of nostalgia, grapple with male fragility, deny family trauma, and acquiesce to authority. For these characters, resignation and reinvention are only a breath apart. Nothing Could Be Further from the Truth is a bold debut collection that sits at the threshold of expectation and reality.

Legends of Vancouver

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Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Book Synopsis Legends of Vancouver by : E. Pauline Johnson

Download or read book Legends of Vancouver written by E. Pauline Johnson and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1922 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "These legends (with two or three exceptions) were told to me personally by my honored friend, the late Chief Joe Capilano, of Vancouver, whom I had the privilege of first meeting in London in 1906, when he visited England and was received at Buckingham Palace by their Majesties King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra. To the fact that I was able to greet Chief Capilano in the Chinook tongue, while we were both many thousands of miles from home, I owe the friendship and the confidence which he so freely gave me when I came to reside on the Pacific coast. These legends he told me from time to time, just as the mood possessed him, and he frequently remarked that they had never been revealed to any other English-speaking person save myself."--Author's pref.

Generation X

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Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312054366
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (543 download)

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Book Synopsis Generation X by : Douglas Coupland

Download or read book Generation X written by Douglas Coupland and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1991 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three twenty-something young adults, working at low-paying, no-future jobs, tell one another modern tales of love and death.

U Girl

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ISBN 13 : 9781772010404
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis U Girl by : Meredith Quartermain

Download or read book U Girl written by Meredith Quartermain and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's 1972 in Vancouver, a city crossed between love-in hip and forest-corp square.

The Two Sisters

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ISBN 13 : 9780994999719
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (997 download)

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Book Synopsis The Two Sisters by : Emily Pauline Johnson

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West Vancouver Stories

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Publisher : Shongololo Books
ISBN 13 : 9780981350844
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (58 download)

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Book Synopsis West Vancouver Stories by : Lindy Pfeil

Download or read book West Vancouver Stories written by Lindy Pfeil and published by Shongololo Books. This book was released on 2021-02-17 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written during the COVID-19 pandemic by 23 'ordinary' West Vancouver citizens, these stories celebrate the courage, kindness and resilience of the human spirit. West Vancouver Stories: The Pandemic Project is a celebration of hope and resilience. It ensures that our stories will never be lost. "The pandemic of 20/21 has impacted us all in ways none of us could have imagined. While we are united in fighting this common enemy, how each of us experiences it is unique. And I believe that to develop empathy as a society, we need to hear the stories of others. That's why the West Vancouver Stories initiative is so important. It's an opportunity for a diverse and courageous cross-section of our community to share compelling and intimate reflections on life during this extraordinary time; and for the rest of us to understand and appreciate those insights." Mary-Ann Booth, Mayor of West Vancouver Contributing writers: Anne Baird, Annie Hill, Brenda Morrison, Chris Stringer, Deanna Regan, D. Higgins, Domenica Mastromatteo, Elizabeth Wooding, Elke Babicki, Fay Mehr, Jennifer (Lutes) Hill, Joanne Singleton, Julie Flynn, Karen Hoffman, Karen Tidball, Kimberley Clarke, Lindy Hughes Pfeil, L. Noel, Melody Noble, Rose Lepin, Sharon Selby, Sharon Thompson, Wendy Wilkins Winslow. Deep gratitude to the West Vancouver Foundation for funding this project and to the Coast Salish peoples on whose unceded traditional territories we live, work and write.For additional information about the book and its writers, please visit www.westvanstories.com.

Vancouver After Dark

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ISBN 13 : 9781551527833
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book Vancouver After Dark written by Aaron Chapman and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the music entertainment venues in Vancouver, British Columbia.