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  • Caprice

    de George Bowering ...
    Series series Bowering's BC History Trilogy
    It's the mid 1890s in Kamloops, British Columbia. Two men argue over a bottle of whisky and in the struggle Frank Spencer, an American outlaw-turned-farmhand, kills Pete Foster, a French-Canadian and fellow farmhand.Enter Caprice: a vision and a brain. Almost six feet tall, with flaming red hair and long legs, and toting a lethal bullwhip, she sets out to avenge her brother's murder. Travelling ... Leer más

    $9.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Soft Zipper

    Object, Food, Rooms

    de George Bowering ...
    With an introduction by Lisa Robertson"There is no there there" Gertrude Stein's famous phrase about the Oakland she grew up in, applies to the Oliver, BC of George Bowering's youth. What is to be found there, as Stein demonstrated, are objects, and rooms, and food.George Bowering's newest book delights in the thing-iness of memory. Understanding himself as an object among objects, Bowering ... Leer más

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  • The Hockey Scribbler

    de George Bowering ...
    Hockey forms the backdrop of our lives. For many Canadians, the big moments — births, deaths, marriages, moves — are all mixed up with the wins and losses of our teams. The voices of Hockey Night in Canada sportscasters are our soundtrack, and visions of skates scraping across the ice lull us to sleep.George Bowering, Canada’s former poet laureate, is no different. Growing up in Oliver, BC, ... Leer más

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Shoot!

    de George Bowering ...
    Series series Bowering's BC History Trilogy
    Cowboys and Indians, sometimes one and the same, occupy the rugged landscape of the late nineteenth-century British Columbia interior in George Bowering's Shoot! Meet the McLean Gang — brothers Allan, Charlie, and Archie — and their sidekick Alex Hare. Halfbreeds who grew up bitter outcasts, rejected by both white and Indian worlds, they roam the ranch country around Kamloops on a wild spree of ... Leer más

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  • Mirror on the Floor

    de George Bowering ...
    Reissued as part of Anvil Press's Lost BC Literature seriesSet in Vancouver in the mid-1960s, Mirror on the Floor focuses on one summer in the life of UBC grad student Bob Small and his roommate, George Delsing.They spend their time carousing the downtown eastside and engaging in conversations with the old-timers—dockworkers, unemployed loggers, and retired seamen. They study, smoke cigarettes, ... Leer más

    $10.99 USD

  • Baseball Love

    de George Bowering ...
    Having written books in practically every genre, George Bowering is often introduced as someone who adores baseball, yet ironically he did not begin this book about the game until he was appointed Canada’s first Poet Laureate for 2002–04. This picaresque memoir of a road trip with his fiancée through the storied ballparks of a poet’s youthful dreams is built on the bargain of fiction—that the ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

  • Burning Water

    de George Bowering ...
    Series series Bowering's BC History Trilogy
    First published in 1980 to high acclaim, Burning Water won a Governor General's Award for fiction that year. A rollicking chronicle of Captain Vancouver's search for the Northwest Passage, the book has over its career been mentioned in recommended lists of postmodern fiction, BC historical fiction, gay fiction and humour. This gives you some idea of the scope of what has been called Bowering's ... Leer más

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  • Writing and Reading

    Essays

    de George Bowering ...
    George Bowering has been provoking and inspiring writers and readers for half a century. While he may be better known for his poetry and fiction, the essay holds an equally important place in his work.Writing and Reading includes discussions of writers (ranging from Michael Ondaatje and Alice Munro to Oana Avasilichioei and Robert Kroetsch), difficult poetry and close reading (from Gerard Manley ... Leer más

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  • No One

    de George Bowering ...
    A risqu autobiographical novel that fictionalizes the sexual adventures of the authors younger daysIn 2012, acclaimed writer George Bowering published Pinboy, a fictional memoir of his teenage sexual awakening. With No One, Bowering returns to play with form and fact in this autobiographical novel that continues the narrators journey in a quest story full of further sexual awakenings as that ... Leer más

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  • Writing the Okanagan

    de George Bowering ...
    George Bowering was born in Penticton, where his great-grandfather Willis Brinson lived, and Bowering has never been all that far from the Okanagan Valley in his heart and imagination. Early in the twenty-first century, he was made a permanent citizen of Oliver. Bowering has family up and down the Valley, and he goes there as often as he can. He has been asked during his many visits to Okanagan ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

  • 10 Women

    de George Bowering ...
    “Literary escapades enlighten and entertain in this boundary-pushing collection.” (Foreword Reviews)“The maestro is at it again” (The Vancouver Sun)Ten Women is a new collection of short fiction from one of Canada’s preeminent writers. Each of these stories offers us a portrait of a woman with whom the author may or may not have had either an intimate and/or a meaningful relationship. You can’t ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    The Hockey Scribbler

    de George Bowering ...
    Narrado por Paul Hecht ...

    Completo

    7 hora 2 minutos

    Canada's former poet laureate looks back at a life lived in literature and hockey fandom Hockey forms the backdrop of our lives. For many Canadians, the big moments - births, deaths, marriages, moves - are all mixed up with the wins and losses of our teams. The voices of Hockey Night in Canada sportscasters are our soundtrack, and visions of skates scraping across the ice lull us to sleep. George ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

    Disponible también en: eBook

    Disponible también en: eBook