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Fall 2002 Titles |
The Deep |
The DeepMary SwanThe year is 1918. Esther and Ruth, identical twins, leave their life of privilege to embark on a journey to France that will profoundly affect their relationship with each other, those they leave behind and those they have yet to meet. sewn paper, 6x9, 96 pages
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The Stand-In |
The Stand-InDavid HelwigThe reader of The Stand-In is cast as a member of the audience for three meandering lectures on `The Music of No Mind' delivered by the stand-in for a better-known colleague found dead in his hotel room. Though the speaker rambles, we begin to suspect there is method - and perhaps motive - in his unconventional address. sewn paper, 6x9, 96 pages
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Planet Earth |
Planet EarthP. K. PagePoet and essayist Eric Ormsby has selected for this volume the best of the poems that Page has written over the course of a career spanning more than five decade. Says Ormsby, `One of the finest and most distinctive Canadian poets, P. K. Page is no provincial. She is a citizen not merely of the world, but of the earth.' sewn paper, 6x9, 208 pages
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The Understanding |
The UnderstandingJane Barker WrightIn a story that ranges from a Seventies' commune to the image-conscious Vancouver of the Nineties, Jane Barker Wright brings to life the misadventures of the large, eccentric Whitechapel family as they reconcile themselves to becoming the flavour of the month. sewn paper, 6x9, 192 pages
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A Tourist's Guide to Glengarry |
A Tourist's Guide to GlengarryIan McGillisA Tourist's Guide to Glengarry presents us with a day in the life - and in the voice - of nine-year-old Neil McDonald. The cast includes Neil's friend Keith and his gnome-like baba, a budding Black Power advocate, the heavy-smoking son of anti-war activists, and a very small boy wielding a very large axe in a public park. sewn paper, 6x9, 192 pages
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The Syllabus |
The SyllabusMike BarnesPrompted by a questionnaire sent to him by an old friend turned psychologist, the narrator of The Syllabus - M - digresses, fantasizes, catalogues and invents. First friend, first love, first sex, inklings of vocation: all of the elements of the Bildungsroman are here, but put in a high-speed blender that tracks the hallucinatory smears they leave on the mind. sewn paper, 6x9, 216 pages
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Uncomfortably Numb |
Uncomfortably NumbSharon EnglishA city suburb, 1980. The front of propriety, the freakish stillness and the bush parties. This is the home of Germaine Stevens, the teenage narrator of Uncomfortably Numb. In a voice that ranges from tough to achingly vulnerable, English conveys the anger, lust and absurdity that spiral into one girl's growing fight against the tuned-out numbness of her world. sewn paper, 6x9, 200 pages
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