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ISBN13: 9781550717501
English
Written to read like a memoir, this collection of poetry details the life of a family across generations and provides a moving and haunting portrait of the Italian mother who is the center around which this family revolves. But this is much more than a story about ethnicity; it transcends...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550717730
English
Written to read like a memoir, this collection of poetry details the life of a family across generations and provides a moving and haunting portrait of the Italian mother who is the center around which this family revolves. But this is much more than a story about ethnicity; it transcends...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550719161
ISBN10: 1550719165
English
In this volume Alberto Di Giovanni presents us with a wide panorama of the recent history of Canada and its social development, while offering a compelling story of the long journey of the Italian community in Canada, and with Canada. Di Giovanni walks again on the long trail of the...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550719178
ISBN10: 1550719173
English
In this volume Alberto Di Giovanni presents us with a wide panorama of the recent history of Canada and its social development, while offering a compelling story of the long journey of the Italian community in Canada, and with Canada. Di Giovanni walks again on the long trail of the...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771834162
ISBN10: 1771834161
English
The first of a two-part novel, Itzel I tells the story of three disparate characters swept up in the drama of the Mexican student movement of 1968 whose ending in the Massacre in Tlatelolco on October 2nd, a date now always commemorated in Mexico, changed their lives forever. Broad in...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771834155
ISBN10: 1771834153
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The first of a two-part novel, Itzel I tells the story of three disparate characters swept up in the drama of the Mexican student movement of 1968 whose ending in the Massacre in Tlatelolco on October 2nd, a date now always commemorated in Mexico, changed their lives forever. Broad in...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771834186
ISBN10: 1771834188
English
In Itzel II, we continue to follow Nauta, Itzel, and Basta through the cascading outcomes of their desire for agency and for change in their world. We move from the Oaxaca coast back to Mexico City, from Nauta's Brooklyn streets to her time in Canada, from the attraction between Basta...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771834193
ISBN10: 1771834196
English
In Itzel II, we continue to follow Nauta, Itzel, and Basta through the cascading outcomes of their desire for agency and for change in their world. We move from the Oaxaca coast back to Mexico City, from Nauta's Brooklyn streets to her time in Canada, from the attraction between Basta...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771831789
ISBN10: 1771831782
English
Compiled and edited by Sandra Singer, J. J. Steinfeld: Essays on His Works is a critical look at PEI writer J. J. Steinfeld's extensive and prolific writings in poetry, fiction and theatre, ranging from early work on post-Holocaust themes to later examinations of absurdity and existentialism. Among the contributors: Raina...
Sandra Singer, George Elliott Clarke, Ellen S. Jaffe
2017
Kindle
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771831796
ISBN10: 1771831790
English
Compiled and edited by Sandra Singer, J. J. Steinfeld: Essays on His Works is a critical look at PEI writer J. J. Steinfeld's extensive and prolific writings in poetry, fiction and theatre, ranging from early work on post-Holocaust themes to later examinations of absurdity and existentialism. Among the contributors: Raina...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771836531
ISBN10: 1771836539
English
Kaidenberg's Best Sons is an enthralling portrait of a community starting over in a new land. In a series of linked stories, author Jason Heit explores the lives and fortunes of people bound together by tradition, heritage and history, yet riven by envy, greed and lust. When a community of...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771836524
ISBN10: 1771836520
English
Kaidenberg's Best Sons is an enthralling portrait of a community starting over in a new land. In a series of linked stories, author Jason Heit explores the lives and fortunes of people bound together by tradition, heritage and history, yet riven by envy, greed and lust. When a community of...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550717587
ISBN10: 1550717588
English
Whether it's Toronto, a French or Italian town, Pierre L'Abbe's stories are rich with a sense of place where the ambiance and characters fuse in a loaded sense of expectation. The characters, much like those in Henry James, challenge the norms of their overbearing societies. Nothing turns out as expected,...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550717815
ISBN10: 1550717812
English
Whether it's Toronto, a French or Italian town, Pierre L'Abbe's stories are rich with a sense of place where the ambiance and characters fuse in a loaded sense of expectation. The characters, much like those in Henry James, challenge the norms of their overbearing societies. Nothing turns out as expected,...
Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)
ISBN13: 9781771835619
ISBN10: 1771835613
English
In Kissing a Tree Surgeon, worlds traverse the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in New Jersey; Southern women get kidnapped by North Koreans; a Dutch girl solicits money on OKCupid; a young woman meets Golda Meir on an Upper East Side bus in New York City, and other deliriously satirical moments occur. Here...
Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)
ISBN13: 9781771835626
ISBN10: 1771835621
English
In Kissing a Tree Surgeon, worlds traverse the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in New Jersey; Southern women get kidnapped by North Koreans; a Dutch girl solicits money on OKCupid; a young woman meets Golda Meir on an Upper East Side bus in New York City, and other deliriously satirical moments occur. Here...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771832700
ISBN10: 1771832703
English
Four strong women: Anjali, an Indo-Canadian single mother who eagerly accepts an African posting with her non-profit organization; Grace, her dedicated but dominating colleague, who opposes her; Fatimah, a farmer ousted from her home and fertile farmland, whom Anjali befriends; and Mary, Anjali's kindly maid, who must secure the future...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771832717
ISBN10: 1771832711
English
Four strong women: Anjali, an Indo-Canadian single mother who eagerly accepts an African posting with her non-profit organization; Grace, her dedicated but dominating colleague, who opposes her; Fatimah, a farmer ousted from her home and fertile farmland, whom Anjali befriends; and Mary, Anjali's kindly maid, who must secure the future...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550714623
ISBN10: 1550714627
English
One of the Maritimes' best poets offers his distinctive take on everyday objects, stripping them of familiarity and describing them anew, in this collection of poems from previous books. A strong sense of place--as well as the community that makes up a place--anchors the selections from this voice of Canadian realism.
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550714630
ISBN10: 1550714635
English
One of the Maritimes' best poets offers his distinctive take on everyday objects, stripping them of familiarity and describing them anew, in this collection of poems from previous books. A strong sense of place--as well as the community that makes up a place--anchors the selections from this voice of Canadian realism.
Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)
ISBN13: 9781771833462
ISBN10: 1771833467
English
Céline Vaillancourt saw the untamed forest in shades of apprehension. But Edmund, her 11-year-old son, was possessed of a different vision, as though he had put the very same brooding colors together and produced a painting shot through with adventure and the light of discovery. There was no talking to...
Guernica Editions (Guernica World Editions)
ISBN13: 9781771833479
ISBN10: 1771833475
English
Céline Vaillancourt saw the untamed forest in shades of apprehension. But Edmund, her 11-year-old son, was possessed of a different vision, as though he had put the very same brooding colors together and produced a painting shot through with adventure and the light of discovery. There was no talking to...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550713688
ISBN10: 155071368X
English
Leper Tango is an end of millennium tale of an ambulance chasing lawyer who uses his ill-gotten gains to whore and drink in Paris, where he falls for a dead-end, suicidal femme fatale named Sheba. The first part of a trilogy of novels (The Graveyard Of The Innocents), some set...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550713831
ISBN10: 1550713833
English
Leper Tango is an end of millennium tale of an ambulance chasing lawyer who uses his ill-gotten gains to whore and drink in Paris, where he falls for a dead-end, suicidal femme fatale named Sheba. The first part of a trilogy of novels (The Graveyard Of The Innocents), some set...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550717655
ISBN10: 1550717650
English
A stunning collection of poems, these works explore moments of empathy in suffering, epiphany in ruin, and grace in surrender. In chronicling a journey from childhood grief through the dark rapture of love and longing, these translucent poems unveil vulnerability, uncertainty, and movement into the half-light of a new beginning.
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781550717884
ISBN10: 155071788X
English
A stunning collection of poems, these works explore moments of empathy in suffering, epiphany in ruin, and grace in surrender. In chronicling a journey from childhood grief through the dark rapture of love and longing, these translucent poems unveil vulnerability, uncertainty, and movement into the half-light of a new beginning.
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771835787
ISBN10: 1771835788
English
Set in Toronto 1970, just as the FLQ crisis emerges to shake an innocent country, eleven year old Johnny Wong uncovers an underbelly to his tight, downtown neighbourhood. He shares a room with his Chinese immigrant mother in a neighbourhood of American draft dodgers and new Canadians. In a span...
Guernica Editions
ISBN13: 9781771835794
ISBN10: 1771835796
English
Set in Toronto 1970, just as the FLQ crisis emerges to shake an innocent country, eleven year old Johnny Wong uncovers an underbelly to his tight, downtown neighbourhood. He shares a room with his Chinese immigrant mother in a neighbourhood of American draft dodgers and new Canadians. In a span...
Guernica Editions (MiroLand)
ISBN13: 9781771830126
ISBN10: 1771830123
English
For 11 months Calvin White worked for Doctors Without Borders as a mental health specialist in the off-the-radar region of Karakalpakstan in western Uzbekistan. Unlike the higher profile emergency situations which draw that international humanitarian organization's attention, the milieu for White's mission was the quiet, slow death in an epidemic...
Guernica Editions (MiroLand)
ISBN13: 9781771830133
ISBN10: 1771830131
English
For 11 months Calvin White worked for Doctors Without Borders as a mental health specialist in the off-the-radar region of Karakalpakstan in western Uzbekistan. Unlike the higher profile emergency situations which draw that international humanitarian organization's attention, the milieu for White's mission was the quiet, slow death in an epidemic...