Author: Kenneth J. Harvey
Publisher: Random House Canada
ISBN: 0307371603
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Fifteen years in the making, this book is the one Canada’s “heavyweight champ of brash and beautiful literature” was meant to write. An epic masterwork about Newfoundland’s working class, Blackstrap Hawco spans more than a century in gorgeous and widely varied prose, reminding us that even when writing about the degradation of identity and language, Harvey does it magnificently. Named in a moment of anger, Blackstrap Hawco is heir to an island dominion picked over by its adoptive nation. From the arrivals of the indentured Irish to the Victorian drawing rooms of the English merchants, from the perilous seal hunt to the raucous iron ore mines, from a notorious disaster at sea to the relocation of outport communities, the family legend might be all his people have left to live for. But as Blackstrap Hawco – a novel that will consume you in its dazzling swirl of voices, legends and beautiful hearsay – testifies, a story this haunting, this powerful, might just be enough.
Blackstrap Hawco
Author: Kenneth J. Harvey
Publisher: Random House Canada
ISBN: 0307371603
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Fifteen years in the making, this book is the one Canada’s “heavyweight champ of brash and beautiful literature” was meant to write. An epic masterwork about Newfoundland’s working class, Blackstrap Hawco spans more than a century in gorgeous and widely varied prose, reminding us that even when writing about the degradation of identity and language, Harvey does it magnificently. Named in a moment of anger, Blackstrap Hawco is heir to an island dominion picked over by its adoptive nation. From the arrivals of the indentured Irish to the Victorian drawing rooms of the English merchants, from the perilous seal hunt to the raucous iron ore mines, from a notorious disaster at sea to the relocation of outport communities, the family legend might be all his people have left to live for. But as Blackstrap Hawco – a novel that will consume you in its dazzling swirl of voices, legends and beautiful hearsay – testifies, a story this haunting, this powerful, might just be enough.
Publisher: Random House Canada
ISBN: 0307371603
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 850
Book Description
Fifteen years in the making, this book is the one Canada’s “heavyweight champ of brash and beautiful literature” was meant to write. An epic masterwork about Newfoundland’s working class, Blackstrap Hawco spans more than a century in gorgeous and widely varied prose, reminding us that even when writing about the degradation of identity and language, Harvey does it magnificently. Named in a moment of anger, Blackstrap Hawco is heir to an island dominion picked over by its adoptive nation. From the arrivals of the indentured Irish to the Victorian drawing rooms of the English merchants, from the perilous seal hunt to the raucous iron ore mines, from a notorious disaster at sea to the relocation of outport communities, the family legend might be all his people have left to live for. But as Blackstrap Hawco – a novel that will consume you in its dazzling swirl of voices, legends and beautiful hearsay – testifies, a story this haunting, this powerful, might just be enough.
Revolutions
Author: Alex Good
Publisher: Biblioasis
ISBN: 1771961201
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Revolutions is the first book-length critical survey of twenty-first-century Canadian fiction, with in-depth essays examining subjects such as the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the effects of the digital revolution, and the dark legacy of what has come to be know as the Canadian literary establishment. Throughout, close reading is given to many contemporary authors, with particular attention paid to such central figures as Douglas Coupland and David Adams Richards. Alex Good explains and contextualizes this period in Canadian fiction for the general reader, providing a much-needed critical re-assessment of Canadian writing in the new millennium. By offering a contrary yet thoughtful position to that taken by our nation’s most prominent literary tastemakers, Good offers a vigorous commentary on the state of Canadian literature—where we are and how we got here.
Publisher: Biblioasis
ISBN: 1771961201
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Revolutions is the first book-length critical survey of twenty-first-century Canadian fiction, with in-depth essays examining subjects such as the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the effects of the digital revolution, and the dark legacy of what has come to be know as the Canadian literary establishment. Throughout, close reading is given to many contemporary authors, with particular attention paid to such central figures as Douglas Coupland and David Adams Richards. Alex Good explains and contextualizes this period in Canadian fiction for the general reader, providing a much-needed critical re-assessment of Canadian writing in the new millennium. By offering a contrary yet thoughtful position to that taken by our nation’s most prominent literary tastemakers, Good offers a vigorous commentary on the state of Canadian literature—where we are and how we got here.
Quill & Quire
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Book industries and trade
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
The Town That Forgot How to Breathe
Author: Kenneth J. Harvey
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312424800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
When the maritime village of Bareneed is beset by mythic sea creatures, a bizarre suffocating plague, and other strange events, divorced father Joseph Blackwood works against time to save his only daughter.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312424800
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
When the maritime village of Bareneed is beset by mythic sea creatures, a bizarre suffocating plague, and other strange events, divorced father Joseph Blackwood works against time to save his only daughter.
Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 2008
Author: David Mutimer
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442620226
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs is an acclaimed series that offers informed commentary on important national events and considers their significance in local and international contexts. This latest instalment reviews one of the most dramatic years in recent Canadian political history. While the country seemed solid both politically and economically at the beginning of 2008, by late summer trouble in the financial markets left banks and other financial institutions around the world on the brink of collapse. As the situation unfolded, Prime Minister Harper violated the spirit of his fixed election law and called a snap election, sensing the prospect of a Conservative majority. When the election returned another minority, Canada was plunged into a constitutional crisis that rivalled, if not surpassed, the King-Byng affair of 1926. The 2008 volume of the Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs covers both these crises, as well as foreign, provincial, First Nations, and municipal affairs.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1442620226
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
The Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs is an acclaimed series that offers informed commentary on important national events and considers their significance in local and international contexts. This latest instalment reviews one of the most dramatic years in recent Canadian political history. While the country seemed solid both politically and economically at the beginning of 2008, by late summer trouble in the financial markets left banks and other financial institutions around the world on the brink of collapse. As the situation unfolded, Prime Minister Harper violated the spirit of his fixed election law and called a snap election, sensing the prospect of a Conservative majority. When the election returned another minority, Canada was plunged into a constitutional crisis that rivalled, if not surpassed, the King-Byng affair of 1926. The 2008 volume of the Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs covers both these crises, as well as foreign, provincial, First Nations, and municipal affairs.
Little White Squaw
Author: Eve Mills Nash
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9780888784278
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This harsh account of life in New Brunswicks Native community sees the Little White Squaw balance precariously between two seemingly irreconcilable cultures and colours.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9780888784278
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This harsh account of life in New Brunswicks Native community sees the Little White Squaw balance precariously between two seemingly irreconcilable cultures and colours.
Highways and Dancehalls
Author: Diana Atkinson
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780312151393
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Sarah, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a Harvard-educated family teetering on divorce, finds herself traveling from town to town by Greyhound bus, trying to make a living as "Tabitha," an exotic dancer, and come to terms with her past.
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press
ISBN: 9780312151393
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 235
Book Description
Sarah, the seventeen-year-old daughter of a Harvard-educated family teetering on divorce, finds herself traveling from town to town by Greyhound bus, trying to make a living as "Tabitha," an exotic dancer, and come to terms with her past.
Blackstrap Hawco
Author: Kenneth Harvey
Publisher: Vintage Books Canada
ISBN: 9780099488774
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Named in a moment of anger, raised to endure the tragedy of a people, Blackstrap Hawco was born with little more than a body and spirit that refuse to give up, and the menacing strength of pride.It has always been this way for the Hawco's of Newfoundland, but as the end of the twentieth century nears, the family's bloodlines have grown tainted and confused. Their story - a dazzling swirl of voices and legends spanning poverty, riches, violence and disaster - may be all they have left. But a story this haunting, this powerful, might just be enough to save them all.
Publisher: Vintage Books Canada
ISBN: 9780099488774
Category : Families
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
Named in a moment of anger, raised to endure the tragedy of a people, Blackstrap Hawco was born with little more than a body and spirit that refuse to give up, and the menacing strength of pride.It has always been this way for the Hawco's of Newfoundland, but as the end of the twentieth century nears, the family's bloodlines have grown tainted and confused. Their story - a dazzling swirl of voices and legends spanning poverty, riches, violence and disaster - may be all they have left. But a story this haunting, this powerful, might just be enough to save them all.
The Dangerous Book for Boys
Author: Conn Iggulden
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062874977
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
The bestselling book—more than 1.5 million copies sold—for every boy from eight to eighty, covering essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses*, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age old question of what the big deal with girls is—now a Prime Original Series created by Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Greg Mottola (Superbad). In this digital age, there is still a place for knots, skimming stones and stories of incredible courage. This book recaptures Sunday afternoons, stimulates curiosity, and makes for great father-son activities. The brothers Conn and Hal have put together a wonderful collection of all things that make being young or young at heart fun—building go-carts and electromagnets, identifying insects and spiders, and flying the world's best paper airplanes. Skills covered include: The Greatest Paper Airplane in the World The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World The Five Knots Every Boy Should Know Stickball Slingshots Fossils Building a Treehouse* Making a Bow and Arrow Fishing (revised with US Fish) Timers and Tripwires Baseball's "Most Valuable Players" Famous Battles-Including Lexington and Concord, The Alamo, and Gettysburg Spies-Codes and Ciphers Making a Go-Cart Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary Girls Cloud Formations The States of the U.S. Mountains of the U.S. Navigation The Declaration of Independence Skimming Stones Making a Periscope The Ten Commandments Common US Trees Timeline of American History *For more information on building treehouses, visit www.treehouse-books.com and www.stilesdesigns.com or see “Treehouses You Can Actually Build” by David Stiles.
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062874977
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
Languages : en
Pages : 561
Book Description
The bestselling book—more than 1.5 million copies sold—for every boy from eight to eighty, covering essential boyhood skills such as building tree houses*, learning how to fish, finding true north, and even answering the age old question of what the big deal with girls is—now a Prime Original Series created by Bryan Cranston (Breaking Bad) and Greg Mottola (Superbad). In this digital age, there is still a place for knots, skimming stones and stories of incredible courage. This book recaptures Sunday afternoons, stimulates curiosity, and makes for great father-son activities. The brothers Conn and Hal have put together a wonderful collection of all things that make being young or young at heart fun—building go-carts and electromagnets, identifying insects and spiders, and flying the world's best paper airplanes. Skills covered include: The Greatest Paper Airplane in the World The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World The Five Knots Every Boy Should Know Stickball Slingshots Fossils Building a Treehouse* Making a Bow and Arrow Fishing (revised with US Fish) Timers and Tripwires Baseball's "Most Valuable Players" Famous Battles-Including Lexington and Concord, The Alamo, and Gettysburg Spies-Codes and Ciphers Making a Go-Cart Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary Girls Cloud Formations The States of the U.S. Mountains of the U.S. Navigation The Declaration of Independence Skimming Stones Making a Periscope The Ten Commandments Common US Trees Timeline of American History *For more information on building treehouses, visit www.treehouse-books.com and www.stilesdesigns.com or see “Treehouses You Can Actually Build” by David Stiles.
Shack
Author: Kenneth J. Harvey
Publisher: Mercury Press (Canada)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
From the author ofThe Town That Forgot How to Breathe, these are dark stories about the people and ghosts that haunt rural Newfoundland. Rich with legends, personal drama, humour and striking characters, the thirteen, award-winning short stories in Shack feature Harvey’s distinctive landscape of Cutland Junction, a place centred in the woods where characters live an inland way of life rarely witnessed in Newfoundland fiction. Whether dealing with ghosts, loners, tragedy, or traditional lore, Harvey captures the people of Cutland Junction with passion, wit and care.
Publisher: Mercury Press (Canada)
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
From the author ofThe Town That Forgot How to Breathe, these are dark stories about the people and ghosts that haunt rural Newfoundland. Rich with legends, personal drama, humour and striking characters, the thirteen, award-winning short stories in Shack feature Harvey’s distinctive landscape of Cutland Junction, a place centred in the woods where characters live an inland way of life rarely witnessed in Newfoundland fiction. Whether dealing with ghosts, loners, tragedy, or traditional lore, Harvey captures the people of Cutland Junction with passion, wit and care.