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Published by Brand: New Canadian Library, 1990
ISBN 10: 0771098677ISBN 13: 9780771098673
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprint. A harrowing pathology of the soul, Mad Shadows centres on a family group: Patrice, the beautiful and narcissistic son; his ugly and malicious sister, Isabelle-Marie; and Louise, their vain and uncomprehending mother. These characters inhabit an amoral universe where beauty reflects no truth and love is an empty delusion. Each character is ultimately annihilated by their own obsessions.Acclaimed and reviled when it exploded on the Quebec literary scene in 1959, Mad Shadows initiated a new era in Quebec fiction.
Published by Brand: New Canadian Library, 1989
ISBN 10: 0771099851ISBN 13: 9780771099854
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Softcover. Condition: Good. One of Canadas most accomplished authors combines the best qualities of both the short story and the novel to create a lyrical evocation of the beauty, pain, and wonder of growing up.In eight interconnected, finely wrought stories, Margaret Laurence recreates the world of Vanessa MacLeod - a world of scrub-oak, willow, and chokecherry bushes; of family love and conflict; and of a girls growing awareness of and passage into womanhood. The stories blend into one masterly and moving poignant, compassionate, and profound in emotional impact.In this fourth book of the five-volume Manawaka series, Vanessa MacLeod takes her rightful place alongside the other unforgettable heroines of Hagar Shipley in The Stone Angel , Rachel Cameron in A Jest of God , Stacey MacAindra in The Fire-Dwellers , and Morag Gunn in The Diviners .
Published by Brand: New Canadian Library, 1989
ISBN 10: 077109969XISBN 13: 9780771099694
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. The stories of The Lost Salt Gift of Blood are remarkably simple - a family is drawn together by shared and separate losses, a childs reality conflicts with his parents memories, a young man struggles to come to terms with the loss of his father.Yet each piece of writing in this critically acclaimed collection is infused with a powerful life of its own, a precision of language and a scrupulous fidelity to the reality of time and place, of sea and Maritime farm.Focusing on the complexities and abiding mysteries at the heart of human relationships, the seven stories of The Lost Salt Gift of Blood map the close bonds and impassable chasms that lie between man and woman, parent and child.
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Published by Brand: New Canadian Library, 1993
ISBN 10: 0771098898ISBN 13: 9780771098895
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Softcover. Condition: used. Product DescriptionThe 15 sketches that make up Glengarry School Days look back affectionately on childhood in Ontario at the time of Confederation. Yet behind Connors delightful account of boyhood enthusiasms - and his clear desire for a more orderly and courageous world - lie glimpses of the moral rigidity that also characterized homesteading life in early Canada.Wildly popular when first published in 1902, Glengarry School Days still captivates readers with its detailed portrait of children and their misadventures.From the Inside FlapThe 15 sketches that make up Glengarry School Days look back affectionately on childhood in Ontario at the time of Confederation. Yet behind Connor's delightful account of boyhood enthusiasms - and his clear desire for a more orderly and courageous world - lie glimpses of the moral rigidity that also characterized homesteading life in early Canada.Wildly popular when first published in 1902, Glengarry School Days still captivates readers with its detailed portrait of children and their misadventures.About the AuthorRalph Connor was born Charles William Gordon in Indian Lands, Glengarry County, Canada West (later Ontario) in 1860. He graduated from the University of Toronto in 1883 and received his B.D. from Knox College in Toronto in 1887. Three years later he was ordained in Calgary a minister of the Presbyterian Church, and then moved to Banff where he served as missionary to the lumbercamps and mining villages of the area. In 1894 he moved to Winnipeg's Saint Stephen's Church, where he was pastor for the rest of his life.Seeking financial assistance for his missionary work, the Revered Charles William Gordon wrote fictional sketches for the Presbyterian magazine The Westminster. Under the pseudonym of Ralph Connor, he soon became Canada's bestselling author both at home and abroad. His earliest sketches were collected as Black Rock (1898), and this novel, along with his next two novels, The Sky Pilot (1899) and The Man from Glengarry (1901), sold five million copies.Connor's fiction originated in his "outdoor" Christianity. His heroes are often churchmen, among other representatives of established civilization, who minister to the needs of a frontier society.Ralph Connor died in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in 1937.Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.The Spelling-MatchThe "Twentieth" school was built of logs hewn on two sides. The cracks were chinked and filled with plaster, which had a curious habit of falling out during the summer months, no one knew how; but somehow the holes always appeared on the boys' side, and being there, were found to be most useful, for as looking out of the window was forbidden, through these holes the boys could catch glimpses of the outer world - glimpses worth catching, too, for all around stood the great forest, the playground of boys and girls during noon-hour and recesses; an enchanted land, peopled, not by fairies, elves, and other shadowy beings of fancy, but with living things, squirrels, and chipmunks, and weasels, chattering ground-hogs, thumping rabbits, and stealthy foxes, not to speak of a host of flying things, from the little gray-bird that twittered its happy nonsense all day, to the big-eyed owl that hooted solemnly when the moon came out. A wonderful place this forest, for children to live in, to know, and to love, and in after days to long for.It was Friday afternoon, and the long, hot July day was drawing to a weary close. Mischief was in the air, and the master, Archibald Munro, or "Archie Murro," as the boys called him, was holding himself in with a very firm hand, the lines about his mouth showing that he was fighting back the pain which had never quite left him from the day he had twisted his knee out of joint five years ago, in a wrestling match, and which, in his weary moments, gnawed into his vitals. He hated to lose his grip of himself, for then he knew he should have to grow stern and terrifying.
Published by Brand: New Canadian Library, 1974
ISBN 10: 0771091966ISBN 13: 9780771091964
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprinted. One of Canadas most accomplished authors combines the best qualities of both the short story and the novel to create a lyrical evocation of the beauty, pain, and wonder of growing up.In eight interconnected, finely wrought stories, Margaret Laurence recreates the world of Vanessa MacLeod - a world of scrub-oak, willow, and chokecherry bushes; of family love and conflict; and of a girls growing awareness of and passage into womanhood. The stories blend into one masterly and moving whole: poignant, compassionate, and profound in emotional impact.In this fourth book of the five-volume Manawaka series, Vanessa MacLeod takes her rightful place alongside the other unforgettable heroines of Manawaka: Hagar Shipley in The Stone Angel, Rachel Cameron in A Jest of God, Stacey MacAindra in The Fire-Dwellers, and Morag Gunn in The Diviners.
Published by Brand: New Canadian Library, 1994
ISBN 10: 0771098715ISBN 13: 9780771098710
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Product Description Then, Donal Keneally, an Irish giant who thought he could invent the world, led a band of faithful followers from rural Ireland to Vancouver Island in search of Eden. In the course of his search, he founded the Revelations Colony of Truth.Now, Maggie Kyle runs an extraordinary boarding house on the original site of the Colony, and she and her irrepressible boarders search out Keneallys story as a key to their own roots and even the possibility of love.Originally published in 1977, The Invention of the World is Jack Hodgins first novel. From the Inside Flap Then, Donal Keneally, an Irish giant who thought he could invent the world, led a band of faithful followers from rural Ireland to Vancouver Island in search of Eden. In the course of his search, he founded the Revelations Colony of Truth.Now, Maggie Kyle runs an extraordinary boarding house on the original site of the Colony, and she and her irrepressible boarders search out Keneally?s story as a key to their own roots and even the possibility of love.Originally published in 1977, The Invention of the World is Jack Hodgins? first novel. About the Author Jack Hodgins was born and raised on Vancouver Island. He taught Creative Writing at a number of Canadian universities, and retired from the University of Victoria in 2002.He is the author of seven novels, including The Invention of the World; The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne, winner of the Governor Generals Award; The Macken Charm; Broken Ground, winner of the Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction; and Distance; and three books of short stories, Spit Delaneys Island, a finalist for the Governor Generals Award; The Barclay Family Theatre; and Damage Done by the Storm. He is also the author of A Passion for Narrative: A Guide for Writing Fiction. Hodgins has been awarded the Canada-Australia Prize, among many others, has received three honorary degrees, and has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.From the Hardcover edition.
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Published by Brand: New Canadian Library, 1970
ISBN 10: 0771091702ISBN 13: 9780771091704
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Reprinted. The ten stories gathered together in The Tomorrow-Tamer are Margaret Laurences first published fiction. Set in raucous and often terrifying Ghana, where shiny Jaguars and modern jazz jostle for eminence against fetish figures, tribal rites, and the unchanging beat of jungle drums, the stories tell of individuals, European and African, trying to come to terms with the frightening world brought about by the countrys new freedom.With the same compassion and understanding she would bring to her later fiction set in Canada, Laurence succeeds brilliantly in capturing the atmosphere of a continent and of individual men and women struggling for survival under the impact of the wind of change.
Published by Brand: New Canadian Library, 2010
ISBN 10: 0771094248ISBN 13: 9780771094248
Seller: Ergodebooks, Houston, TX, U.S.A.
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Product DescriptionIn The Road Past Altamont, Roy daringly returns to the same characters and the nearly identical timespan of Street of Riches, but by looking at her subjects with an entirely fresh vision, she creates a wholly new and deeply personal story of young Christines decision to become a writer.This haunting and poignant tale weaves a delicate but substantial network of impressions, emotions, and human relationships.About the AuthorGABRIELLE ROY -- author of The Tin Flute, Where Nests the Water Hen, The Road Past Altamont, The Cashier, Children of My Heart, and many other books - was a three-time winner of the Governor General's Award; she also won the Prix Femina, the Prix David, the Prix Duvernay, the Molson Award, and the Canada Council Medal for outstanding cultural achievement.Excerpt. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.OneI was six years old when my mother sent me to spend part of the summer with my grandmother in her village in Manitoba.I balked slightly at going. My old grandmother frightened me a little. She was known to be so devoted to order, cleanliness, and discipline that you couldnt leave the tiniest thing lying about at her house. With her, it seemed, it was always, Pick up after yourself, put away your things, as the twig is bent . . . and other admonitions of the sort. As well, nothing exasperated her so much as the tears of children, which she called mewling or caterwauling. That was another thing: her rather curious way of speaking, partly invented by herself and often far from easy to figure out. Later, however, I found several of my grandmothers expressions in my old Littré and realized they must date back to the time when the first settlers came to Canada from France.Yet she must have found time heavy on her hands, for it was her own idea that I should spend part of the summer in her company. Send the little sickly one to me, she wrote in a letter my mother showed me as proof that I would be welcome at Grandmothers.Those words little sickly one had already made me feel none too well-disposed toward my grandmother; so it was in a more or less hostile frame of mind that I set out for her house one day in July. I told her so, moreover, the moment I set foot in her house.Im going to be bored here, I said. Im sure of it. Its written in the sky.I didnt know that this was precisely the sort of language to amuse and beguile her. Nothing irritated her as much as the hypocrisy that is natural to so many children-wheedling and coaxing, she called it.So at my dark prediction I saw something that in itself was unusual enough. She was smiling faintly.Youll see. You may not be as bored as all that, she said. When I want to, when I really set my mind to it, I know a hundred ways to keep a child amused.But, for all her proud words, it was she herself who was often bored. Almost no one came to see her any more. She had swarms of grandchildren, but she seldom saw them, and her memory was failing, so it was difficult for her to tell one of them from another.From time to time a car full of young people would slow down at the door, perhaps stop for an instant; a bevy of young girls would wave their hands, calling, Hello, Mémre. How are you?Grandmother would just have time to run to the doorstep before the girls disappeared in a whirlwind of fine dust.Who were they? she would ask. Cléophass daughters? Or Nicolass? If only Id had my spectacles I would have recognized them.That, I would inform her, was Berthe, Alice, Graziella and Anne-Marie.Ah! she would say, struggling to remember whether these particular girls were the daughters of Nicolas, of Cléophas, or of Alberic.The next moment she would begin to argue with herself. But no. What am I thinking? Most of Nicolass children are boys.She would go to sit for a moment in her rocking chair beside the window to try to settle the matter once for all and make a complete.
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Published by Brand: New Canadian Library, 1989
ISBN 10: 077109860XISBN 13: 9780771098604
Seller: Books of the Smoky Mountains, Del Rio, TN, U.S.A.
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Published by Brand: New Canadian Library, 2007
ISBN 10: 077103489XISBN 13: 9780771034893
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Published by Brand: New Canadian Library, 1990
ISBN 10: 0771089554ISBN 13: 9780771089558
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Softcover. Condition: Good. Precocious in childhood, irrepressible in old age, Miss Topaz Edgeworths singular accomplishment is to live out an entire century in unflagging - and mostly oblivious - optimism. At once outmoded and unconventional, tyrannical and benign, Topaz leads a largely unexamined life. But the magical quality of her consciousness, revealed through stunning narrative technique, makes her into one of the most delightful characters in Canadian literature. Published in 1949, The Innocent Traveller is Ethel Wilsons most original literary achievement.
Published by Brand: New Canadian Library, 1994
ISBN 10: 077109891XISBN 13: 9780771098918
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Published by Brand: New Canadian Library, 1989
ISBN 10: 0771098510ISBN 13: 9780771098512
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Published by Brand: New Canadian Library, 1989
ISBN 10: 0771099975ISBN 13: 9780771099977
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Published by Brand: New Canadian Library, 2010
ISBN 10: 0771094132ISBN 13: 9780771094132
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Softcover. Condition: used. Sinclair Ross 1941 novel As For Me and My House is a masterpiece of Canadian literature, a stunning evocation of the Prairies and their inhabitants during the Depression of the Thirties. With The Lamp at Noon and Other Stories, an original New Canadian Library collection, Ross reveals further dimensions of his fictional universe.A womans impulsive infidelity leads to tragedy. A sudden hailstorm destroys hope. A boy learns to conquer a beautiful wild horse. A little girl dreams about a circus. Against the isolated, haunting landscapes of summer droughts and winter blizzards, the men and women of Ross stories grapple with fate against almost impossible odds. Marked by a legacy of pride that will not suffer defeat, Ross unyielding characters are cut off from their loved ones by obstinacy and defiance. Their tragedy is not that they suffer, but that they suffer alone.The sensitivity, compassion, and subtlety with which Ross portrays human aspirations and failings remain to this day unequalled in Canadian fiction.
Published by Brand: New Canadian Library, 2008
ISBN 10: 0771093586ISBN 13: 9780771093586
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Published by Brand: New Canadian Library, 1995
ISBN 10: 0771034555ISBN 13: 9780771034558
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Published by Brand: New Canadian Library, 1989
ISBN 10: 0771099940ISBN 13: 9780771099946
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