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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

    by 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 ... Read more

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

    by 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 ... Read more

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  • Going Down Slow

    by 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 ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • The Canadian Short Story

    by 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 ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • An Aesthetic Underground

    A Literary Memoir

    by John Metcalf ...
    Series 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. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Best Canadian Stories

    Edited by 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 ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Paving Our Ways

    A History of the World’s Roads and Pavements

    by 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. ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • The Museum at the End of the World

    by 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. ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Vital Signs

    The Collected Novellas

    by 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. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Finding Again the World

    Selected Stories

    by John Metcalf ...
    Series 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 ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Off the Record

    by Caroline Adderson, Kristyn Dunnion, Cynthia Flood, Shaena Lambert, Elise Levine, Kathy Page ...
    Editor John Metcalf has inspired, challenged, and championed countless writers over his long career. In Off the Record, he encourages six to reveal what one rarely discusses in polite society: how they became writers instead of radio announcers or cabinet makers. The essays collected here, each accompanied by a short story, offer fascinating insight into the relationships between writers, their ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Temerity & Gall

    by 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 ... Read more

    $15.89 USD