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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551527758Author Kai Cheng ThomFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 222g

In Bit Rot, Douglas Coupland explores the different ways in which twentieth-century notions of the future are being shredded, and creates a gem of the digital age. Reading the stories and essays in Bit Rot is like bingeing on Netflix . . . you can't stop...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783943365863Author Douglas CouplandFormat PaperbackPage Count 92Imprint Sternberg PressPublisher Sternberg PressWeight(grams) 111gDimensions(mm) 195mm *...

Published fifty years ago under the title Harpoon of the Hunter, Markoosie Patsauq's novel helped establish the genre of Indigenous fiction in Canada. This new English translation unfolds the story of Kamik, a young hero who comes to manhood while on a...

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Much of A.M. Klein's finest prose is to be found in the mass of uncompleted work that he abandoned at the time of his breakdown, and that became accessible only when his papers were deposited in the National Archives. Notebooks offers a generous...

The search for a distinctive Canadian literature is not new. It began in the 1820s, and even then involved many of the same issues that concern critics today. Much of this early material is now inaccessible to most Canadians. Carl Ballstadt has selected...

This anthology offers readers a selection of Newfoundland writing which will illuminate the unfolding of the province’s history and culture and at the same time command respect as literature. It is comprised of 65 selections from literary and historical...

The writings of John Milton and William Blake were central to Northrop Frye's concept of the imaginative structure of Western literature and thought. He considered them the two most important poet-prophets in the English tradition. This volume brings...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773861128Author Adrienne FitzpatrickFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Caitlin PressPublisher Caitlin Press

Finalist for the 2014 Archibald Lampman Award for Outstanding Book of Poetry! Like the rhapsodists, the storytellers of ancient Greece, A Pretty Sight shapes voices into a stitched song propelled toward the next century. Haunted by "time's frame / that...

"Needs Improvement is a book of a new logic making its way from witty statements to slow-moving lyric villanelles, achieving brilliantly a contemporary sense of streaming among words, places and 'no self.'"--Nicole Brossard Whether misreading sixth...

"Alphabetic dismantling, syntactic play, essaying words backwards and 4words (as she might say), Christakos manifests forensic clarity and telegraphic fortitude in this unsettling work."--Rachel Blau DuPlessis Revelling in the value of social polyphony...

"This is a book with brains and muscle, resonant and intense, and Matthew Heiti is a prodigious talent, the spooky bard of mullets and muffin-tops, grow-ops and stolen snakeskin boots on Highway 69." — Mark Anthony Jarman A body is found on the side of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550175028Author Paul VermeerschFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 498gDimensions(mm) 203mm...

Considered by many to be Northrop Frye's magnum opus, The Great Code (1982) reflects a lifetime of thinking about the patterns and meanings of the Bible. In this new edition of The Great Code, Alvin A. Lee presents a corrected and fully annotated...

"After reading Mr. Faulkner's incredible book, something happened. I began to feel bad for the person I was before reading his poems. The poet writes: 'I've placed dynamite around your heart and a bit / in your teeth. How bored you must have been /...

Although Northrop Frye's first book, Fearful Symmetry (1947), elevated the reputation of William Blake from the status of a minor eccentric to that of a major Romantic poet, Frye in fact saw Blake as a poet (and, consequently, himself as a critic) not of...

"Whip-pan-smart, fleet and protean, David Seymour's poems seem to contain the speed of the age. I love their ranginess and ambition, the way they rove through a here-and-now teeming with there-and-then, their speakers' flights and turnings through the...

A timely work whose apocalpytic vision of a cultures and empires on the brink will speak to present-day anxiety re: the decline of America Sibum was a draft dodger in the 70s, and has an outsider's perspective on a country he both loves and hatesBook...

"No other writer of our time and place was so diverse, attempted so much, and never lost sight of his intent."--Michael Ondaatje a book of variations collects three difficult-to-find bpNichol texts--love, zygal, and art facts--which exemplify Nichol's...

Fifty years ago, Markoosie Patsauq, then a bush pilot in his late twenties living in the tiny, isolated High Arctic community of Resolute, spent his spare time quietly writing a story that effectively emerged as the first Indigenous novel released in...

Fifty writers on life, art and writing from twenty-two years of Brick, A Literary Journal.Founded in 1977, Brick, A Literary Journal features a great many of the world's best-loved writers, and has readers in every corner of the planet. The magazine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781551524627Author John Mikhail AsfourFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint Arsenal Pulp PressPublisher Arsenal Pulp PressWeight(grams) 249g

Unearthed recordings reveal the early days of the literary powerhouses who gave birth to CanLit in the 1960s.From 1969 to 1970, radio interviewer Earle Toppings recorded sixteen Canadian writers and poets who went on to become pillars of Canadian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771602730Author Shaun HunterFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Rocky Mountain BooksPublisher Rocky Mountain Books

A landmark of nationalist fiction, Hugh MacLennan's Two Solitudes is the story of two races within one nation, each with its own legend and ideas of what a nation should be. In his vivid portrayals of human drama in prewar Quebec, MacLennan focuses on...

George and Catherine Stewart share the worry of Catherine's illness, which could cause her death at any time, and the memory of Jerome Martell, Catherine's first husband and George's closest friend. Martel, a brilliant doctor passionately concerned with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771087704Author Elizabeth Rollins EpperlyFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint Nimbus Publishing (CN)Publisher Nimbus Publishing (CN)Weight(grams)...

Conversations with Robertson Davies is a long overdue anthology of interviews with Canada's most respected literary figure. Journalist, essayist, reviewer, playwright, and novelist, Robertson Davies has not only been a leading figure in Canadian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992741709Author Lyn MarshFormat PaperbackPage Count 204Imprint Spinning WheelPublisher Spinning Wheel

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195406535Author Assistant Professor of English Michelle GadpailleFormat PaperbackPage Count 134Imprint OUP IndiaPublisher OUP IndiaWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780228893660Author Robin BengerFormat PaperbackPage Count 306Imprint Tellwell TalentPublisher Tellwell TalentWeight(grams) 331g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988017641Author Jeremy Luke HillFormat PaperbackImprint Vocamus PressPublisher Vocamus PressWeight(grams) 259g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995284715Author Fiona Gold KrollFormat PaperbackPage Count 146Imprint Gold-Kroll PublishingPublisher Gold-Kroll PublishingWeight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995955721Author Cameron DreamshareFormat PaperbackPage Count 394Imprint Studio DreamsharePublisher Studio DreamshareWeight(grams) 576g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972249775Author George WinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Same Page LLCPublisher Same Page LLCWeight(grams) 222g

Dan Ainslie, a brilliant doctor working with the miners of his native Cape Breton Island, is forty-two and still deeply in love with his wife. Longing for the son he can never have, he comes to love the young Alan MacNeil, whose father deserted him and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781442631434Author A M KleinFormat PaperbackPage Count 574Imprint University of Toronto PressPublisher University of Toronto Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550026610Author Germaine WarkentinFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint Dundurn Group LtdPublisher Dundurn Group LtdWeight(grams) 708gDimensions(mm)...