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ISBN13: 9781550715583
ISBN10: 1550715585
English
Bridge in the Rain is a collection of interconnected short stories set in present day Toronto and linked by an inscription on a bench in High Park. The stories chronicle the travails of seven women, each dealing with a turning point in her life, be it making a career choice,...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550715590
ISBN10: 1550715593
English
Bridge in the Rain is a collection of interconnected short stories set in present day Toronto and linked by an inscription on a bench in High Park. The stories chronicle the travails of seven women, each dealing with a turning point in her life, be it making a career choice,...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550716405
ISBN10: 1550716409
English
By Available Light is an education on how lost time can be recovered through poetry, how the murky, clogged waters of the past can be clarified by words and made to flow again. This book of Michael Carrino's new and selected poetry brings together the voices of son, brother, soldier,...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550716412
ISBN10: 1550716417
English
By Available Light is an education on how lost time can be recovered through poetry, how the murky, clogged waters of the past can be clarified by words and made to flow again. This book brings together the voices of son, brother, soldier, lover, traveller, and, as each one shares...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771831512
ISBN10: 1771831510
English
With its starting point in the late 1940s, Cadillac Road is the story of red-haired and fierce narrator Sharon Desjardins: from her earliest childhood memories of leaving Northern Quebec and a violent father to adventures in Buffalo and Crystal Beach with her mother and younger sister, Gloria; from dreams of...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771831529
ISBN10: 1771831529
English
With its starting point in the late 1940s, Cadillac Road is the story of red-haired and fierce narrator Sharon Desjardins: from her earliest childhood memories of leaving Northern Quebec and a violent father to adventures in Buffalo and Crystal Beach with her mother and younger sister, Gloria; from dreams of...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550714586
English
In a provocative and thoughtful essay, Estonia's preeminent poet and cultural critic, Jüri Talvet, investigates the role of culture in the postmodern world. Against the large background of historical values in western and world culture, Talvet inveighs against monologues and grand narratives launched by Western centers, envisaging instead a cultural...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550714593
English
In a provocative and thoughtful essay, Estonia's preeminent poet and cultural critic, Jüri Talvet, investigates the role of culture in the postmodern world. Against the large background of historical values in western and world culture, Talvet inveighs against monologues and grand narratives launched by Western centers, envisaging instead a cultural...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771835992
ISBN10: 1771835990
English
When King Priam's pregnant daughter was fleeing the sack of Troy, Stan was there. When Jesus of Nazareth was beaten and crucified, Stan was there--one cross over. Stan has been a Hittite warrior, a Roman legionnaire, a mercenary for the caravans of the Silk Road and a Great War German...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771836005
ISBN10: 1771836008
English
When King Priam's pregnant daughter was fleeing the sack of Troy, Stan was there. When Jesus of Nazareth was beaten and crucified, Stan was there--one cross over. Stan has been a Hittite warrior, a Roman legionnaire, a mercenary for the caravans of the Silk Road and a Great War German...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771831840
ISBN10: 1771831847
English
This is the untold story of what went on behind the scenes when the UN tried to manage free elections in Cambodia in the early 90s. Told with insight, humor, and a dash of romance, Cambodia and the Year of UNTAC staggers from adventure to adventure as the UN seeks...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771831857
ISBN10: 1771831855
English
This is the untold story of what went on behind the scenes when the UN tried to manage free elections in Cambodia in the early 90s. Told with insight, humor, and a dash of romance, Cambodia and the Year of UNTAC staggers from adventure to adventure as the UN seeks...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550716795
ISBN10: 1550716794
English
Camerado is a play presenting the very dramatic life and compelling thoughts of Walt Whitman, who remains the foremost American poet of the greatness possible in the human spirit, and in the spirit of a vital democracy. His inspiring views and tough criticisms, expressed in simple, but beautiful and powerful...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550716801
ISBN10: 1550716808
English
Camerado is a play presenting the very dramatic life and compelling thoughts of Walt Whitman, who remains the foremost American poet of the greatness possible in the human spirit, and in the spirit of a vital democracy. His inspiring views and tough criticisms, expressed in simple, but beautiful and powerful...
Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)
ISBN13: 9781771833134
ISBN10: 1771833130
English
Caminos tells the story of Mercedes González Conde and her daughter, granddaughter and great-grandson. Each of them live and love, cope with and compound their inner troubles as issues of abandonment, attachment, identity and rootlessness circle around and through them. The novel is set in the northwest Spanish province of...
Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)
ISBN13: 9781771833141
ISBN10: 1771833149
English
Caminos tells the story of Mercedes González Conde and her daughter, granddaughter and great-grandson. Each of them live and love, cope with and compound their inner troubles as issues of abandonment, attachment, identity and rootlessness circle around and through them. The novel is set in the northwest Spanish province of...
Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)
ISBN13: 9781771834438
ISBN10: 1771834439
English
A father comes out to his daughter as a woman. Or at least, he was once a woman. It's complicated. Funny. Painful. Eventually joyful. Meanwhile the daughter, who was adopted, has her own identity issues. At the Aboriginal addictions treatment centre where she works, everyone assumes she is indigenous. But...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771834445
ISBN10: 1771834447
English
A father comes out to his daughter as a woman. Or at least, he was once a woman. It's complicated. Funny. Painful. Eventually joyful. Meanwhile the daughter, who was adopted, has her own identity issues. At the Aboriginal addictions treatment centre where she works, everyone assumes she is indigenous. But...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771837330
ISBN10: 1771837330
English
In Catch and Release, twenty-one-year-old Lucca looks back on her childhood and adolescence as she comes to terms with both her sexual orientation and her mental illness. When she falls in love with the brilliant and beautiful Adèle, Lucca is forced to acknowledge not only that she is not and...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550714784
English
One woman's emotional and cultural journey is luxuriously illustrated in this moving collection, as she artfully recounts leaving Lebanon for a new life in Canada. In a voice that blends prose with poetry, she copes with the newfound sense of rootlessness she gains in exchange for her new freedom. Though...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550714791
English
One woman's emotional and cultural journey is luxuriously illustrated in this moving collection, as she artfully recounts leaving Lebanon for a new life in Canada. In a voice that blends prose with poetry, she copes with the newfound sense of rootlessness she gains in exchange for her new freedom. Though...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771835244
ISBN10: 1771835249
English
Needless to say, moments like now, when the hurdles to becoming a respected author are at their lowest. When the only hurdles to being published are the quality of your writing and your patience to deal with certain less and less important gatekeepers. Moments in history like this, must be...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771835251
ISBN10: 1771835257
English
Needless to say, moments like now, when the hurdles to becoming a respected author are at their lowest. When the only hurdles to being published are the quality of your writing and your patience to deal with certain less and less important gatekeepers. Moments in history like this, must be...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550715606
ISBN10: 1550715607
English
An uppercut, in boxing, is a punch that comes from underneath and hits you on the chin. Often, it knocks you to the floor ... cold ... out for the count. But the thing is, to attempt an uppercut, you've got to put your guard down. You see, in literature...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550715613
ISBN10: 1550715615
English, Italian
An uppercut, in boxing, is a punch that comes from underneath and hits you on the chin. Often, it knocks you to the floor ... cold ... out for the count. But the thing is, to attempt an uppercut, you've got to put your guard down. You see, in literature...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771836586
ISBN10: 177183658X
English
Where were you when the pandemic hit? While the shock of COVID-19 was fresh, the Quebec Writers' Federation sent out a call to its members asking for short descriptions of life under lockdown. The response was immediate and heartfelt. Written and posted online between April 6 and May 26 of...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771836593
ISBN10: 1771836598
English
Where were you when the pandemic hit? While the shock of COVID-19 was fresh, the Quebec Writers' Federation sent out a call to its members asking for short descriptions of life under lockdown. The response was immediate and heartfelt. Written and posted online between April 6 and May 26 of...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550717594
ISBN10: 1550717596
English
Andrea has an unusual sense of smell. She grows up to be a pheromone researcher for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a perfume maker in Paris. But one idea haunts her: who is her real father? Is it the man her family says is her father, or is it...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550717822
ISBN10: 1550717820
English
Andrea has an unusual sense of smell. She grows up to be a pheromone researcher for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a perfume maker in Paris. But one idea haunts her: who is her real father? Is it the man her family says is her father, or is it...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771831123
ISBN10: 177183112X
English
This volume represents the first full-scale appreciation of Clark Blaise's writing in more than 25 years -- and the first comprehensive study of his now more than 20 books. Included are previously published essays by, among others, Robert Lecker, Alexander MacLeod, Catherine Sheldrick Ross, and the volume's editor, J.R. (Tim)...