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Two Solitudes by Hugh MacLennan
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $30.07A 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... -
The Precipice by Hugh MacLennan 9780773542679
RRP: $38.98Booksplease Price: $33.62The Precipice is the sweeping story of Lucy Cameron, a young woman who seems destined to live and die in small-town Ontario. Into this place of monotony and petty incidents, of spiteful gossip and... -
Each Man's Son by Hugh MacLennan 9780773524880
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $29.07Dan 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 Watch that Ends the Night by Hugh MacLennan 9780773524965
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $26.07George 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... -
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Return of the Sphinx by Hugh MacLennan 9780773524903 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $4.47Alan Ainslie is an able and dedicated man high in the government. Daniel Ainslie, his son, is a member of an explosive movement impelled by the naive rebelliousness of the New left. Hugh MacLennan... -
Barometer Rising: Penguin Modern Classics Edition by Hugh Maclennan
RRP: $33.15Booksplease Price: $20.46Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780735252851Author Hugh MaclennanFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Dry Your Tears to Perfect Your Aim: A Novel by Jacob Wren 9781771669047
RRP: $35.00Booksplease Price: $26.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction 2024 (Canada).Book InformationISBN 9781771669047Author... -
Undersong by Kathleen Winter 9780735278240
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsShort-listed for The Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Award - Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction 2021... -
Fayne: A Novel by Ann-Marie MacDonald 9780735276659
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $29.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of The Quebec Writers' Federation Literary Award - Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction 2023.Book... -
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Cockroach by Rawi Hage 9780141040813 [USED COPY]
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $5.87Our unnamed narrator has left his Middle-Eastern home and settled in a chilly, western city. He lives as an exile, untrusted, unwanted, foreign. A stranger trying to make sense of a strange land. But... -
Cockroach by Rawi Hage 9780141040813
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $24.32Our unnamed narrator has left his Middle-Eastern home and settled in a chilly, western city. He lives as an exile, untrusted, unwanted, foreign. A stranger trying to make sense of a strange land. But... -
Reconstructing National Identity: The Nation Forged in Fire-Myth and Canadian Literature by Karin Ikas 9783631749371
RRP: $113.98Booksplease Price: $102.06In the diversified and ambiguous, globally and glocally networked mobile present, national identities are challenged internally and externally in multiple ways. In Canada intellectuals and notable... -
Cape Breton is the Thought-Control Centre of Canada by Ray Smith 9781771960274
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06Sophisticated, playful, and extremely funny, this collection begins the career of one of Canada's best humorists and storytellers. Featuring the adventures of Patchouli the Passionate, Sweet William,... -
Downtown Canada: Writing Canadian Cities by Justin D. Edwards 9780802087201
RRP: $113.10Booksplease Price: $93.03The vast majority of Canadians live in cities, yet for the most part, discussions of Canadian literature have failed to actively engage with the country's urban experience. Canada's prevalent myths... -
We, Jane by Aimee Wall 9781771666701
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $25.43Longlisted for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller PrizeShortlisted for the 2021 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for FictionShortlisted for the 2021 Concordia University First Book PrizeLe Grand Prix du livre... -
The Arts in Canada, the Last Fifty Years by W J Keith
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $31.01In this volume a baker's dozen of creative Canadians make personal responses to the state of the arts in Canada: Northrop Frye and Guy Rocher write on general cultural trends; Hugh MacLennan and... -
The Grasping Imagination: The American Writings of Henry James by Peter Martinus Buitenhuis
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $48.83There has been almost no study of the American writings of Henry James, that is, the fiction, essays, and travel literature with an American setting. The great bulk of Jamesian criticism deals with... -
Dear Bill: The Correspondence of William Arthur Deacon by John Lennox 9781487576936
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $57.99In the four decades between 1920 and 1960, William Deacon, Canada's first full-time literary journalist, devoted his career to the twin goals of fostering a Canadian readership for Canadian writers... -
Equivocal City: French and English Novels of Postwar Montreal by Patrick Coleman 9780773554856
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $51.32The study of Montreal as a specific location in French and English writings has long been subordinated to the demands of linguistically divided and politically contentious narratives about national... -
Rhythm in the Novel by E. K. Brown 9781442652408
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.53The Alexander Lectures for 1949-50. In his Preface, Professor Brown says, "Isolating a single element or group of elements in the novel, and considering it in unreal separation from all the other... -
Canadian Hockey Literature by Jason Blake 9780802097132
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $45.79Hockey occupies a prominent place in the Canadian cultural lexicon, as evidenced by the wealth of hockey-centred stories and novels published within Canada. In this exciting new work, Jason Blake... -
Canadian Hockey Literature by Jason Blake 9780802099846
RRP: $99.45Booksplease Price: $81.55Hockey occupies a prominent place in the Canadian cultural lexicon, as evidenced by the wealth of hockey-centred stories and novels published within Canada. In this exciting new work, Jason Blake... -
Summer in the City Marie-Louise Gay 9781773065472
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $11.43Husband-and-wife team Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel create a sequel to the enormously popular Travels with My Family and On the Road Again! - but with a twist. This time Charlie and his family... -
The Measure of Darkness by Liam Durcan 9781942658047
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $23.61Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Winner National Reading Group Month "Great Group Reads" selection "A deft exploration of the heart and mind that offers the pathos of a Sam Shepard... -
On the Road Again!: More Travels with My Family Marie-Louise Gay 9781554980871
RRP: $13.63Booksplease Price: $10.59In the sequel to Travels With My Family, the family is on the road again -- this time to spend a year in a tiny village in southern France. They experiences the spring migration of sheep up to the... -
The Age of Confession / L'Age de la confession by Neil Bissoondath
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $18.43In this illuminating essay, Neil Bissoondath explores the powerful influence exerted by narrative on the human psyche. Storytelling is a primary activity in the human experience. The stories that we... -
An Orange from Portugal: Christmas Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland by Anne Simpson
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $22.04It's often said that the main export of the Maritimes is Maritimers, and the same is true of Newfoundland. "Going down the road" is a way of life, but so is coming home for Christmas. It is tradition... -
Travels with My Family by David Homel 9780888998330
RRP: $15.58Booksplease Price: $14.22Marie-Louise Gay and David Homel combine their writing and illustrating talents with their own family memories to produce a very unique travelogue. Family vacations are supposed to be something to... -
Do You Remember Being Born?: A Novel Sean Michaels 9781662602320
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $33.48Scotiabank Giller Prize winner Sean Michaels's moving, innovative novel about an aging poet laureate who "sells out" by agreeing to collaborate with a Big Tech company's poetry AI. Do You Remember... -
Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955-2010 by Rudy Wiebe 9780888645401
RRP: $66.28Booksplease Price: $49.34For more than fifty years, Canadian literary legend Rudy Wiebe has been defining and refining prairie literature through his oeuvre of world-renowned novels, histories, essays, and short stories. He... -
Through a Glass Darkly: Suffering, the Sacred, and the Sublime in Literature and Theory by Holly Faith Nelson
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $57.95Suffering, the sacred, and the sublime are concepts that often surface in humanities research in an attempt to come to terms with what is challenging, troubling or impossible to represent. These...