Pinboy: A Memoir

As a teenager, legendary Canadian poet George Bowering lived the life of an ordinary boy. He loved baseball, read Westerns, held a part-time job, and fantasized about girls and women. George was due for a sexual awakening, which arrived when he was fifteen. But what took place was anything but ordinary when George found himself vying for the affections of three very different women: his first love, the girl from the wrong side of the tracks, and one of his high school teachers. Set in the South Okanagan Valley in the fifties, 'Pinboy' is an intimately honest and often hilarious memoir that skilfully captures the delirious chaos that takes place as a boy becomes a man.

George Bowering is a poet, writer, biographer, and historian. He has written over ninety works and was the first Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada. He has won the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and Poetry. In 1993 he became an Officer of the Order of Canada, and in 2004 received the Order of British Columbia. Having lived all across Canada, including Montreal, Calgary, and London, Ontario, he is currently living the good life in Vancouver, BC.

GEORGE BOWERING is a poet, a writer, a biographer, and a historian. He has written over ninety works and is the first Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada. He won the 1980 Governor General's Literary Award for his novel Burning Water, and has also received the Governor General's Literary Award for Poetry. His more recent works include My Darling Nellie Gray, The Box, and Bowering's B.C. In 1993, he became an Officer of the Order of Can