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Synopsis
Islands West offers an exciting cross-section of contemporary story-telling from the BC coast. Some of the stories gathered here are by famous writers like Jack Hodgins, Audrey Thomas, and Alice Munro; but many are by confident new voices, with new angles of vision, and compellingly different stories to tell. Islands West catches this astonishing wave of emerging talent and covers the spectacular waterfront of BC short fiction now.
The stories range from murder mystery to reportage, comic sketches to lyric and visionary prose. The wide variety of stories reflect the authors’ many different cultural and ethnic backgrounds, told in shifting, unexpected voices. Yet they speak of lives more particular, complex, and variable than cultural categories
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About the Author
Keith Harrison’s Furry Creek was short-listed for the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, 2000. Harrison’s previous novels have been nominated for the Books in Canada First Novel Award and the QSPELL's Hugh MacLennan Fiction Prize, and his short fiction has won the Okanagan Short Story Award. He teaches at Malaspina University-College in Nanaimo and lives on Hornby Island.
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...likely to stand on the shelf for decades alongside other seminal... anthologies...does us proud. -- Alan Twigg, BC Bookworld
...you may return to it again and again to ponder our precarious perch by the edge of the sea. -- Vivain Moreau, Times Colonist
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- PublisherOolichan Books
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0889821984
- ISBN 13 9780889821989
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages420
- EditorHarrison Keith
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Islands West
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Oolichan Books, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2001
ISBN 10: 0889821984
ISBN 13: 9780889821989
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Seller: ! Turtle Creek Books !, Mississauga, ON, Canada
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very slight edgewear and faint creasing of spine and covers, otherwise a fine clean tight and bright copy - Islands West offers an exciting cross-section of contemporary story-telling from the BC coast. Some of the stories gathered here are by famous writers like Jack Hodgins, Audrey Thomas, and Alice Munro; but many are by confident new voices, with new angles of vision, and compellingly different stories to tell. Islands West catches this astonishing wave of emerging talent and covers the spectacular waterfront of BC short fiction now. The stories range from murder mystery to reportage, comic sketches to lyric and visionary prose. The wide variety of stories reflect the authors' many different cultural and ethnic backgrounds, told in shifting, unexpected voices. Yet they speak of lives more particular, complex, and variable than cultural categories. Seller Inventory # NS12239
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Islands West: Stories from the Coast
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Oolichan Books, Lantzville, British Columbia, Canada, 2001
ISBN 10: 0889821984
ISBN 13: 9780889821989
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Seller: Don's Book Store, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
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Trade Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Weston, W. P. - Cover (illustrator). First Edition. 420 Pages. Little read book with a front cover/spine reading crease. No other marks or stamps on the bright book with a faultless interior. This important and overdue colleciton of stories sweeps the range of Candadian west coast writers --- from the unnique and powerful voices of internationally recognized writers to the indelible authenticity of emerging voices. The stories reach from the southern tip of Vancouver island to the northern coast -- with links to differenct countries, contineents, and hemispheres. But it is in its range of story and storytellers that Islands West defines us, reafffirms us, and opens us to new possibilitie. Here's where we've been, these ficitons seem to say, here's where we are, and here's where we're headed. Writers included are: Hodgins, Thien, Gartner, Robeerts Mootoo, Young Hindmarch, Logan Potvin, Fjellgaard, Thomas, Frasere, Adderson, Bowering Robinson, Svendsen, Lyon Jarman, Flood, Harris Lagah, Bowering, Guppy, Lau, Cojjpton, Smith, Page, Taylor, Windley, and Munro. Here are just some of the titles: Four Days from Oregon, Measuring Death in Column Inches, A Garden of Her Own, Yellow with Black Horns, Being Audited, Traplines, Marine Life, Joe in the Afterlife, Fishing Veronica Lake, Fresh Girls, Cortest Island, and more. Seller Inventory # 9388
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Islands West
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Paperback. Condition: Good. Light wear. Seller Inventory # 045157
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