Canadian Literature Books

Burnaby, B.C.: Simon Fraser University, 1989. Minimal edgewear, scuffing on front cover, bump on side. Features George Bowering (short story and interview), Gerry Gilbert, Stan Dragland.. Soft Cover. Very Good. (more information)

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CTR Publications. Moderate edgewear; otherwise excellent unread condition. Contents: The View from Edmonton; Realizing A Dream Play; Andre on Theatre Training; The Playwrights Unite; Script - Saskatoon's Paper Wheat.. Soft Cover. Good. (more information)

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Montreal: Conseil Des Arts et Des Lettres Du Quebec, 1999. Extremely minimal edgewear; otherwise brand new. Scarce.. Soft Cover. As New. (more information)

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Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Quarry Pr, 1994. SHIPPING WILL BE SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED ON THIS SMALLER-SIZED BOOK - INQUIRE FOR DETAILS. Brand new with no remainder mark! . Soft Cover. As New. (more information)

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Porcupines Quill, 1993. AUTOGRAPHED BY AUTHOR (and inscribed to previous owner); minimal edgewear; otherwise brand new. "`Caroline Adderson's imaginings are about as far from bad as imaginings can get. The stories in her debut collection are powerfully conceived, subtly constructed, and amazingly diverse in tone. Adopting the perspectives of a wildly eclectic group of characters, her prose is always fresh: Adderson is as comfortable in the boots of a 19th-century gold miner as she is in the crocheted slippers of a sad and embittered grandmother. And despite some very poignant moments, she is never sentimental. ... A finalist for the Governor General's Award, Bad Imaginings is the work of a young writer with confidence and style.'" . Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Very Good. (more information)

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Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Quarry Pr, 1995. No dustjacket as issued. Brand new - no remainder mark - NO SHELF WEAR! "Set in the late 18th century at the time of the American Revolution, Honor Bound tells the gripping story of the Avery family who are forced to flee their home in Philadelphia because they support the British King." A young adult novel.. Hard Cover. As New/No Jacket. (more information)

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Rexdale, Ontario, Canada: Macmillan of Canada, 1977. Dustjacket in very good condition except for one 1/4-inch closed tear at top of front cover, one 1/4-inch closed tear at top of back cover, faint smudge at bottom of front cover, and one tiny chip at bottom of spine. Previous owner's gift inscription on inside page. "The world that Robert Thomas Allen grew up in--the east end of Toronto around 1920--is described very precisely, in detail, so that you never lose sight of the time and the place.". Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. (more information)

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New York, New York, U.S.A.: Doubleday, 1993. Signed by Atwood on pastedown on title page. No dustjacket. Minimal edgewear; moderate edgewear to top and bottom of spine. One faint (coffee?) stain on bottom of book. . Signed by Author. First Edition. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. (more information)

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Agincourt, Ontario, Canada: Gage Distribution Co, 1973. Moderate edgewear; 1/2 inch closed tear at top of spine; otherwise excellent unread condition. . Soft Cover. Very Good. (more information)

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Winnipeg: Turnstone Press, 2000. Previous owner's name on inside page; autographed by author (and inscribed to previous owner) on inside page. Like new! "As Bruce Lee once said, "To know oneself is to study oneself in action with another person." After suffering a trauma that would eventually shape his outlook on life, jeremy Little finishes high school and leaves for Boston to study drama. He drops out in his first year and becomes obsessed with martial arts training. Eventually he owns his own school, finds a girlfriend, and things seem to be looking up until one of his students kills a gay man. The resulting publicity destroy's Jeremy's business and he returns home to the small Alberta town of Seymour where he is forced to confront his old demons. Jeremy struggles with his fear as he learns to open himself up to his family and the possibilities of love. Choke Hold is an original, quirky novel that follows the life of a young man who feels torn between the need to defend himself and the desire to stop fighting." . Signed by Author. First Edition. Soft Cover. As New. (more information)

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Gutter Press, 1998. Brand new - no remainder mark! "Channel Surfing in the Sea of Happiness is a funny, stylish, poetic, rude first collection of eight short stories. These tallish tales offer a been-there flip through a contemporary society most people access on remote. How does the human heart stay afloat in a North America entertaining, informing and networking itself to death? Channel Surfing in the Sea of Happiness sets sail on a pop culture exploration of this question. In "The Hidden History of Gangsters", two down and out queers escape recession-riddled Toronto and hightail it to post-Gulf War Chicago, where they encounter serial killers, architecture, the Shriner Circus and love. "The Food Chain" sees the same two maladroits trying to smuggle typewriters across the Detroit/Windsor border, until one of them falls head over heels for a border guard with a dark secret. "Why God Forgives Our Sins" is set in a conservative Vancouver suburb, where a good Catholic woman and her Reform Party husband host Easter supper for their nephew dying of AIDS. Art, politics, the nature of friendship and being a gay teenager in 1974 Vancouver are the subjects of "Mao Tse-tung and The Spiders From Mars". A computer geek Trekkie visits a gay bath house in Seattle, in "Cubes". Some characters in Channel Surfing in the Sea of Happiness are gay, some are straight, some are shamelessly transparent vehicles for the author's skewed take on life. All are dancing on the edge of a volcano. But at least they're dancing. The stories here are for readers who like their iconoclasm served up with wit and metaphor. They're not postmodern, they're postmaudlin; postmodernism with a facelift so fresh the scalpel hasn't dried yet." . Soft Cover. As New. (more information)

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Ottawa: Fides, 1960. French-language book. No dustjacket. Slight spotting on front cover; minimal edgewear; otherwise very good condition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket. (more information)

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada: HarperCollins Publishers Canada, Limited, 2004. SHIPPING WILL BE SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED ON THIS SMALLER-SIZED BOOK - INQUIRE FOR DETAILS. Extremely minimal edgewear; otherwise brand new unread condition. "Jacqueline Baker's ostensible subjects in A Hard Witching, her first short story collection, are the beaten and colourless human types that inhabit rural Saskatchewan, but the true central characters in these stories are the Sand Hills, the remarkable dunes in the province's southwest corner. The dunes are home to distinctive flora and fauna as well as many dinosaur fossils. Not only are they invisible except at close quarters, they move imperceptibly each year. All eight of the stories in this collection deal with the ambivalent relationship of settler society to its environment. Sometimes there's a hint of nostalgia for a simpler rural life, but it quickly dissipates. And always the Sand Hills are there, pointing to a desert that's not only physical, it's emotional, and either unbearably hot or impossibly cold. The bleak ambiance of loveless marriages and failed adolescent sexuality subtly link to a location in which the characters are unwelcome or, at best, irrelevant. Nowhere is this shown more clearly than in the first story, "Cherry"; it describes, from a child's perspective, eccentric Uncle Aloetius, who torments his niece and nephew with trips to "the hoodoo-like hills" looking for "vossles." But their uncle's sinister allure, compounded by tales of his beautiful runaway wife, Cherry, evaporates on his death. An ugly old woman wearing too much makeup turns up, calling herself Auntie Geraldine. "'Cherry,' she said, 'is how they used to say Gerri.... All those Germans.'" Even her name is a mirage. These stories, dominated by mostly youthful narrators and lies told about sex and family, suggest Baker as a rural J.D. Salinger--a most promising start to a literary career." . Soft Cover. As New. (more information)

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Victoria, BC, Canada: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, 2004. SHIPPING WILL BE SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED ON THIS SMALLER-SIZED BOOK - INQUIRE FOR DETAILS. Remainder mark at top; minimal edgewear, including one creased page inside; otherwise excellent unread condition. Includes contributions by Canadian writers Alistair Macleod, Michael Crummey, and Audrey Thomas.. Soft Cover. Very Good. (more information)

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Prince George, BC: Caitlin Press, 1997. Extremely minimal shelfwear - otherwise like new! "The reflective poems in Threadbare Like Lace comment on the world as Jacqueline Baldwin has experienced it. She is an expatriate New Zealander who has lived and worked in such far-flung places as Montreal and the remote Robson Valley in the Canadian Rockies. Her poems are a mediation between the private and public worlds and are reminiscent of many of the Black Mountain poets. Her work is fuelled by her love of the natural world and her abhorrence of violence. She is one of those rare poets who is both intensely readable and popular. Threadbare Like Lace is her first book, although she has had individual poems published in many journals and her work is well received at readings." . Soft Cover. As New. (more information)

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Tsar Pubns, 2001. Extremely minimal edgewear; otherwise brand new unread condition. . Soft Cover. As New. (more information)

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Toronto: Domestic Bliss, 1982. SHIPPING WILL BE SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED ON THIS SMALLER-SIZED BOOK - INQUIRE FOR DETAILS. SIGNED BY AUTHOR (and inscribed to previous owner); minimal edgewear; otherwise excellent condition.. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. Very Good. (more information)

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Lemeac, 1972. SHIPPING WILL BE SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED ON THIS SMALLER-SIZED BOOK - INQUIRE FOR DETAILS. Extremely minimal edgewear - otherwise like-new condition with no remainder mark! French language book.. Soft Cover. Very Good. (more information)

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Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Quarry Pr, 1995. SHIPPING WILL BE SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED ON THIS SMALLER-SIZED BOOK - INQUIRE FOR DETAILS. Brand new with no remainder mark! . Soft Cover. As New. (more information)

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Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 2005. Minimal edgewear; otherwise excellent unread condition. "Set in the 1960s, Judy Fong Bates’s much-talked-about debut novel is the story of a young girl, the daughter of a small Ontario town’s solitary Chinese family, whose life is changed over the course of one summer when she learns the burden of secrets. Through Su-Jen’s eyes, the hard life behind the scenes at the Dragon Café unfolds. As Su-Jen’s father works continually for a better future, her mother, a beautiful but embittered woman, settles uneasily into their new life. Su-Jen feels the weight of her mother’s unhappiness as Su-Jen’s life takes her outside the restaurant and far from the customs of the traditional past. When Su-Jen’s half-brother arrives, smouldering under the responsibilities he must bear as the dutiful Chinese son, he forms an alliance with Su-Jen’s mother, one that will have devastating consequences. Written in spare, intimate prose, Midnight at the Dragon Café is a vivid portrait of a childhood divided by two cultures and touched by unfulfilled longings and unspoken secrets." . Soft Cover. Very Good. (more information)

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Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Quarry Pr, 1995. Brand new with no remainder mark! . Soft Cover. As New. (more information)

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East Lawerence Town, Nova Scotia, Canada: Pottersfield Pr, 2002. Extremely minimal edgewear; otherwise brand new unread condition with no remainder mark! . Soft Cover. As New. (more information)

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Rexdale, Ontario, Canada: Macmillan of Canada, 1973. Brodart-protected dustjacket shows moderate edgewear including a 1/2-inch closed tear at top of spine; book itself in excellent condition.. Hard Cover. Very Good/Good. (more information)

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Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Quarry Press, 1996. SHIPPING WILL BE SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED ON THIS SMALLER-SIZED BOOK - INQUIRE FOR DETAILS. Brand new with no remainder mark! . Soft Cover. As New. (more information)

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Kingston, Ontario, Canada: Quarry Press, 1996. SHIPPING WILL BE SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED ON THIS SMALLER-SIZED BOOK - INQUIRE FOR DETAILS. Brand new with no remainder mark! . Soft Cover. As New. (more information)

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Scranton, Pennsylvania, U.S.A.: Harpercollins, 1995. SHIPPING WILL BE SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED ON THIS SMALLER-SIZED BOOK - INQUIRE FOR DETAILS. Brand new with no remainder mark! . Soft Cover. As New. (more information)

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Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada: Broken Jaw Pr, 2001. SHIPPING WILL BE SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED ON THIS SMALLER-SIZED BOOK - INQUIRE FOR DETAILS. Extremely minimal edgewear; otherwise brand new unread condition. "In the course of promoting and discussing the 50 books he's written or edited, George (formerly known as Douglas) Fetherling, once called "our ranking man-of-letters" by Books in Canada, has found himself interviewed about writers, trends and issues, as he's observed them from his extraordinary insider/outsider perspective. By scouring sources from The Globe and Mail and Queen's Quarterly to defunct magazines and the archives of community radio stations, Joe Blades has pulled together highlights from three decades of commentary on Canada's writing life." . Soft Cover. As New. (more information)

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Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Vehicule Pr, 1984. Minimal edgewear; previous owner's name inside; corner bump on bottom right corner on front; otherwise very good unread condition. "Veiled Countries/Lives are the two discrete series of poems (published in French in 1964) which form the complete poetic oeuvre of Marie-Claire Blais, the prize-winning fiction writer. This is the first time they have appeared in English. "Highly recommended for literature collections. Lovers of contemporary poetry will want their own copies, for these poems should be read with reflection and time." - Choice" . Soft Cover. Very Good. (more information)

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Toronto, Ontario, Canada: Penguin Books Canada, Limited, 1986. Minimal edgewear - 1 spine crease and slight reading curve to spine - otherwise excellent gently-used condition. . Soft Cover. Good. (more information)

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Westminster, Maryland, U.S.A.: McClelland & Stewart Ltd, 1999. SHIPPING WILL BE SUBSTANTIALLY REDUCED ON THIS SMALLER-SIZED BOOK - INQUIRE FOR DETAILS. Extremely minimal edgewear; otherwise brand new unread condition. "The poems of Stephanie Bolster’s second collection move with delicacy and power, whether focussing on a flock of snow geese on a flooded plain, on the paintings of Jean Paul Lemieux, or on two wasps in a Pepsi can on the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. These intimate acts of language create a space infused with stillness and an edgy expectation. Here is a poetry of engagement and mystery, in which truth is found in seepage and reversal: the bowls of milk the colour of milk; the two facing human profiles forming between them the shape of a vase. This volume sketches a clear, unwavering arc through poems sometimes raw and painful, but always exquisite, and, ultimately, transformative. Two Bowls of Milk confirms Stephanie Bolster as one of the most gifted new poets in Canada today." . Soft Cover. As New. (more information)

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