Author: Graeme Gibson
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Languages : en
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Five Legs
Author: Graeme Gibson
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Five Legs ; Communion
Author: Graeme Gibson
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 344
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Five Legs
Author: Graeme Gibson
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Category : Canadian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Category : Canadian fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Five Legs
Author: Graeme Gibson
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 1770892583
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
First published by Anansi in 1969, Five Legs was a breakthrough for Canadian experimental fiction, selling 1,000 copies in its first week. At the time Scott Symons wrote that "Five Legs has more potent writing in it, page for page, than any other young Canadian novel that I can think of." Or indeed any young American novel — including Pynchon and Farina. Five Legs is the subversive tale of two guilt-ridden young men, Lucan Crackell and Felix Oswald — one a professor, the other his student — caught in the grip of the North American Protestant ethic, with its emotional web-spinning and sexual torments. Gibson captures both their mortifications and their spirited resistance to all things WASP, themselves included, in stream-of-consciousness prose that is at once fluid, disjointed, and hilarious. Essential reading for any Canlit junkie, and quite a trip. This edition features a new introduction by Sean Kane.
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 1770892583
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
First published by Anansi in 1969, Five Legs was a breakthrough for Canadian experimental fiction, selling 1,000 copies in its first week. At the time Scott Symons wrote that "Five Legs has more potent writing in it, page for page, than any other young Canadian novel that I can think of." Or indeed any young American novel — including Pynchon and Farina. Five Legs is the subversive tale of two guilt-ridden young men, Lucan Crackell and Felix Oswald — one a professor, the other his student — caught in the grip of the North American Protestant ethic, with its emotional web-spinning and sexual torments. Gibson captures both their mortifications and their spirited resistance to all things WASP, themselves included, in stream-of-consciousness prose that is at once fluid, disjointed, and hilarious. Essential reading for any Canlit junkie, and quite a trip. This edition features a new introduction by Sean Kane.
Five Legs
Author: Graeme Gibson
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 9780887846908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"This groundbreaking early novel by Graeme Gibson is the tale of two guilt-ridden young men, one a professor, the other his student, caught in the fevered grip of the North American Protestant ethic, with its emotional web-spinning and sexual torments. Gibson captures both their mortifications of the flesh and their spirited resistance to all things WASP, themselves included, in stream-of-consciousness prose that is at once fluid, disjointed, and hilarious. This is an uproarious trip and essential reading for any fan of the North American avant-garde."
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 9780887846908
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
"This groundbreaking early novel by Graeme Gibson is the tale of two guilt-ridden young men, one a professor, the other his student, caught in the fevered grip of the North American Protestant ethic, with its emotional web-spinning and sexual torments. Gibson captures both their mortifications of the flesh and their spirited resistance to all things WASP, themselves included, in stream-of-consciousness prose that is at once fluid, disjointed, and hilarious. This is an uproarious trip and essential reading for any fan of the North American avant-garde."
Survival
Author: Margaret Atwood
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 1770892524
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished, provocative, and written in effervescent, compulsively readable prose, Survival is simultaneously a book of criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood begins by asking: "What have been the central preoccupations of our poetry and fiction?" Her answer is "survival and victims." Atwood applies this thesis in twelve brilliant, witty, and impassioned chapters; from Moodie to MacLennan to Blais, from Pratt to Purdy to Gibson, she lights up familiar books in wholly new perspectives. This new edition features a foreword by the author.
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 1770892524
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
When first published in 1972, Survival was considered the most startling book ever written about Canadian literature. Since then, it has continued to be read and taught, and it continues to shape the way Canadians look at themselves. Distinguished, provocative, and written in effervescent, compulsively readable prose, Survival is simultaneously a book of criticism, a manifesto, and a collection of personal and subversive remarks. Margaret Atwood begins by asking: "What have been the central preoccupations of our poetry and fiction?" Her answer is "survival and victims." Atwood applies this thesis in twelve brilliant, witty, and impassioned chapters; from Moodie to MacLennan to Blais, from Pratt to Purdy to Gibson, she lights up familiar books in wholly new perspectives. This new edition features a foreword by the author.
Take This Bread
Author: Sara Miles
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1848254288
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The story of an unexpected and terribly inconvenient Christian conversion, told by a very unlikely convert, Take This Bread tells the story of a restaurant cook and writer who wandered into a church and found herself transformed, setting up a food pantry around the same altar where she first received the body of Christ.
Publisher: Canterbury Press
ISBN: 1848254288
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
The story of an unexpected and terribly inconvenient Christian conversion, told by a very unlikely convert, Take This Bread tells the story of a restaurant cook and writer who wandered into a church and found herself transformed, setting up a food pantry around the same altar where she first received the body of Christ.
Extraordinary Experiences
Author:
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9780888821089
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A collection of over seventy gripping personal accounts of past and present Canadian experiences and events that can be regarded as supernatural or paranormal.
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 9780888821089
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
A collection of over seventy gripping personal accounts of past and present Canadian experiences and events that can be regarded as supernatural or paranormal.
The Anansi Reader
Author: Lynn Coady
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 0887847757
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
In 1967, then-unknown writers David Godfrey and Dennis Lee founded a small press they grandly named “The House of Anansi,” after an African trickster spider-god. Their goal was to publish groundbreaking new Canadian work in three core genres: literary fiction, poetry, and topical nonfiction. Forty years later, Anansi is not only going strong but enjoying a fascinating creative renaissance, bolstered by both its important backlist and its renewed commitment to seeking out the best new writers and ideas to publish alongside its established ones. Assembled by award-winning writer Lynn Coady, The Anansi Reader features excerpts from ten of the best books from each decade of the existence of the press, for a total of 40 entries. Samples from Lynn Crosbie's Queen Rat, Northrop Frye's The Educated Imagination, and Kevin Connelly's Drift are among the treasures included. In a thoughtful coda, Coady shows readers the future with selections from seven exciting works-in-progress coming from Anansi in the next two years.
Publisher: House of Anansi
ISBN: 0887847757
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 402
Book Description
In 1967, then-unknown writers David Godfrey and Dennis Lee founded a small press they grandly named “The House of Anansi,” after an African trickster spider-god. Their goal was to publish groundbreaking new Canadian work in three core genres: literary fiction, poetry, and topical nonfiction. Forty years later, Anansi is not only going strong but enjoying a fascinating creative renaissance, bolstered by both its important backlist and its renewed commitment to seeking out the best new writers and ideas to publish alongside its established ones. Assembled by award-winning writer Lynn Coady, The Anansi Reader features excerpts from ten of the best books from each decade of the existence of the press, for a total of 40 entries. Samples from Lynn Crosbie's Queen Rat, Northrop Frye's The Educated Imagination, and Kevin Connelly's Drift are among the treasures included. In a thoughtful coda, Coady shows readers the future with selections from seven exciting works-in-progress coming from Anansi in the next two years.
A Reader's Guide to the Canadian Novel
Author: John Moss
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 556
Book Description