Poignantly capturing the sorrow and torment of the dispossessed, this collection of stories focuses on the contemporary experiences of urban dwellers longing for a place to call home. Private lives and intimate pains are made public, and the rawness of the moment is redeemed by the elegance of Clarke's prose and the innate sympathy of his eye.
Poignantly capturing the sorrow and torment of the dispossessed, this collection of stories focuses on the contemporary experiences of urban dwellers ...
Exploring contemporary life and the penetrating energy of youth, this novel follows Anna, an introspective, alienated teenager without hope. Anna and her friend Michelle have experienced what life today has to offerthey have experimented with drugs and sex and have taken dance and music lessons in an attempt to find some meaning in their existenceand yet they have rejected its premise and insteadremain alone and empty.Chilling and often terrifying, this chronicle portrays two young women whoare not bored butare instead without hope of finding peace or even living long enough to begin the...
Exploring contemporary life and the penetrating energy of youth, this novel follows Anna, an introspective, alienated teenager without hope. Anna and ...
Set in the early 1950s in Montreal, this is the story of enigmatic Peggy Sandersona woman who has become a socially awkward presence due to her open and casual association with black musicians in Lower Town nightclubs. White and black men assume she must be involved sexually with the musicians, white women are perplexed by her, and black women both fear and loathe her. Yet Peggy s almost guileless sense of ease is at complete variance with these assumptions and attitudes. When Jim McAlpine, a writer and journalistically engaged intellectual, falls in love with her, lives are ruined and...
Set in the early 1950s in Montreal, this is the story of enigmatic Peggy Sandersona woman who has become a socially awkward presence due to her open a...
Both touchingly comical and extremely provocative, thisnovel deals with ennui in Quebec and the intellectual alienation of a disenchanted hero, Herve Jodoin. Jodoin has come to Saint Joachim to work in the town s only bookstore. The proprietor, Leon Chicoine, is a seemingly respectable man who claims to be the secret agent of free thought and liberty, keeping a collection of books for specific customers only. However, when Jodoin sells a book by a well-known, subversive author, the resulting crisis within the town involves not only Chicoine, but also the town priest and our hero s lonely...
Both touchingly comical and extremely provocative, thisnovel deals with ennui in Quebec and the intellectual alienation of a disenchanted hero, Herve ...
Presenting the most comprehensive selection of the famed Canadian writer s verse, this anthology brings together all of Raymond Knister s known poems many of them in print for the first time along with numerous letters and prose pieces. From pastoral compositions and alternate poetic versions to selected stories and essays, this collection demonstrates why the author was a truly influential personality in the modernist canon. The compilation contains works specifically chosen for their relevance to questions surrounding modernism, shedding light on a significant literary movement. A...
Presenting the most comprehensive selection of the famed Canadian writer s verse, this anthology brings together all of Raymond Knister s known poems ...
Eighty-five stories by one of Canada s greatest writers are collected in this four-volume anthology. Several pieces of Morley Callaghan s short fiction are collected here for the first time, while some which have been out of print for decades are now made available. Each volume contains a section providing the year of publication for each story, a question-and-answer section, and comprehensive editorial notes. As a whole, this series is essential reading for understanding the growth and importance of Canadian literature."
Eighty-five stories by one of Canada s greatest writers are collected in this four-volume anthology. Several pieces of Morley Callaghan s short fictio...
Eighty-five stories by one of Canada s greatest writers are collected in this four-volume anthology. Several pieces of Morley Callaghan s short fiction are collected here for the first time, while some which have been out of print for decades are now made available. Each volume contains a section providing the year of publication for each story, a question-and-answer section, and comprehensive editorial notes. As a whole, this series is essential reading for understanding the growth and importance of Canadian literature."
Eighty-five stories by one of Canada s greatest writers are collected in this four-volume anthology. Several pieces of Morley Callaghan s short fictio...
Chronicling the struggle to put into words the horrors, insights, and tribulations that ultimately shaped a nation's character, this new/expanded edition (based on the original edition of 2001) presents both the major and "unknown" Canadian voices of World War I. Also contains a Preface, Foreword, Introduction, Afterword, Biographies, "Tommy's Dictionary of the Trenches" (A Lexicography), A Glossary, Selected Bibliography, and Questions for Discussion and Essays.
Chronicling the struggle to put into words the horrors, insights, and tribulations that ultimately shaped a nation's character, this new/expanded edit...
It was the fabulous summer of 1929 when the literary capital of North America moved to La Rive Gauche--the Left Bank of the Seine River--in Paris. Ernest Hemingway was reading proofs of "A Farewell to Arms," and a few blocks away F. Scott Fitzgerald was struggling with "Tender Is the Night." As his first published book rose to fame in New York, Morley Callaghan arrived in Paris to share the felicities of literary life, not just with his two friends, Hemingway and Fitzgerald, but also with fellow writers James Joyce, Ford Madox Ford, and Robert McAlmon. Amidst these tangled relations, some...
It was the fabulous summer of 1929 when the literary capital of North America moved to La Rive Gauche--the Left Bank of the Seine River--in Paris. Ern...
Forty years after Pablo Neruda s death, this compilation of his sonnets, unlike previous translations, captures the true spirit and verbal dexterity of his lesser-known genre. Pablo Neruda is still one of the most widely read, influential and beloved 20th-century poets. He was a Nobel Laureate, famous for his politically engaged lyrics, who also wrote these bold and sensual sonnets. In this new edition, the poems are followed by three essays on reading Neruda and his poetic effect by the notable poets and translators A. F. Moritz, Beatriz Hausner, and Toronto s Poet Laureate (2012 2015)...
Forty years after Pablo Neruda s death, this compilation of his sonnets, unlike previous translations, captures the true spirit and verbal dexterity o...