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Published by DC Books, Montreal, QC, Canada, 2008
ISBN 10: 1897190360ISBN 13: 9781897190364
Seller: Bay Used Books, Sudbury, ON, Canada
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. Very good condition. Light wear. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictures available upon request. Appears to be signed by Author.
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Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 2005
ISBN 10: 0919688985ISBN 13: 9780919688988
Seller: Werdz Quality Used Books, Winnipeg, MB, Canada
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Soft cover. Condition: As New. As New condition; This book chronicles the lives of ordinary English-speaking Quebeckers who 'did not go the other way' down the 401, a neglected Canadian minority that saw its treasured world sacrificed by statist deceit and disowned with 'stricken, evasive looks' even by its own kind. Readers will find themselves querying their fashionable complacencies while they ponder a vision conservative in the very best of senses - one that revives the classical faith in human bonds and meaning and prompts us to remember that we are 'born into the arms of love.'.
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Published by Dc Books, Montreal, QC, Canada, 1993
ISBN 10: 0919688381ISBN 13: 9780919688384
Seller: Bay Used Books, Sudbury, ON, Canada
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Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. Very good condition. Light wear. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictures available upon request.
Published by DC Books Montreal QC Canada, 2000
ISBN 10: 0919688705ISBN 13: 9780919688704
Seller: M.A.D. fiction, Grimsby, ON, Canada
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Soft cover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First edition first printing stated of a fine softcover with no jacket as issued. Featuring David Dennings P.I., operating in Montreal QC Canada, hired to find vanished siren Vera A. Utall.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 2008
ISBN 10: 1897190271ISBN 13: 9781897190272
Seller: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, U.S.A.
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. From its inception as a horsecar line in 1874, the Niagara, St. Catharines, & Toronto Railway is one of the foremost examples in Canada of an intensively developed and closely integrated transportation system. It operated local street railways, interurban lines, carload and less-than-carload freight, lake steamers, a large motor coach system, and even a circle trolley line around the Niagara Gorge. The NS&T and predecessors include the first electric railway in Canada to have operated without interruption, and the last interurban passenger service. Each aspect of the company's operations was co-ordinated with others to form a transportation system which, while comparatively small in area, was very active in operation, and several distinct types of passenger service (local, commuter, inter-city and excursion) were developed. Author John Mills tells the story of all of them, with details on where the routes ran, maps of the line, stations, and connections with the many major railways that served the Niagara Peninsula. This book tells the story of one of the area's primary people mover operations in the days before automobile travel became dominant.With electric interurban railway cars and city streetcars serving key towns along the line, and ship connections to Toronto, the thriving and growing communities of Niagara Falls, St Catharines, Welland, Port Dalhousie and others were well connected with other parts of Canada. They were also well connected with USA, thanks to frequent clean-running electric cars that travelled across the Canada-USA border on a regular through-fare basis. With hundreds of photographs, many in full colour, the spectacular scenery of the area comes alive. Equipment is described, the system's operations chronicled, and the excitement of expanding ship and electric transit is captured for the reader. From its inception as a horsecar line in 1874, the Niagara, St Catharines, & Toronto Railway is one of the foremost examples in Canada of an intensively developed and closely integrated transportation system. This book tells the story of one of the area's primary people mover operations in the days before automobile travel became dominant. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 1987
ISBN 10: 0919688144ISBN 13: 9780919688148
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A Romantic through and through, Luxton trains a steady eye on Nature, his chief solace from the 'Gagworld' of personal and political relations. Though he questions his allegiance to the chaste meditations of Wordsworth, and wonders whether Berryman's manic wordplay is an equally outdated legacy, these two poets remain the presiding spirits of the book, and define the poles of its dialectic. A Romantic through and through, Luxton trains a steady eye on Nature, his chief solace from the 'Gagworld' of personal and political relations. Though he questions his allegiance to the chaste meditations of Wordsworth, and wonders whether Berryman's manic wordplay is an equally outdated legacy, these two poets remain the presiding spirits of the book, and define the poles of its dialectic. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 2006
ISBN 10: 1897190166ISBN 13: 9781897190166
Seller: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australia
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Why did Guatemalan immigrant Mino Torres try to rape Quebec student Ariane? What was the failed attempts aftermath? In this terse, prize-winning novel, Marie Helene Poitras, with an imagination tutored by the Minotaur myth, offers a controversial tale about a thug who exults in his ferocious urges and is as incorrigible as a primal force. Torres (the bull) enthusiastically and unapologetically seeks hectic transcendence through rape and recurring fits of epilepsy. Ariane (Ariadne), straying into his twisted, downtown Montreal labyrinth, suffers the consequences of his random sexual predation, though significantly, her refusal to be a terrorised and passive victim haunts him. Arianeis deliverance from his maze, her conquest of persistent fears, is prolonged past her assailant's capture. Once more she must learn to live and love -- in particular, men -- to pick up and follow the thread of human trust, to feel sure again about her flat is dark places and her walk-in cupboard's contents.On the site of the Berlin Wall, in a reunified Germany that has survived its own and other regimes' violent perversions, she permits herself to be gently hoisted up and passed from palm-to-palm over a vast and joy-filled crowd. She permits herself to be gently hoisted up and passed from palm-to-palm over a vast and joy-filled crowd. Why did Guatemalan immigrant Mino Torres try to rape Quebec student Ariane? What was the failed attempts aftermath? This title offers a controversial tale about a thug who exults in his ferocious urges and is as incorrigible as a primal force. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 2003
ISBN 10: 0919688799ISBN 13: 9780919688797
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Robert Edison Sandiford moved from Canada to his parents' native Barbados in 1996. He went for 'wife and work' -- his new bride was a Bajan, and he had landed an editor's position at the leading daily newspaper. Yet his journey 'Back Home' also led to a series of insightful and often poignant meditations on relationships, island life, and the decline of his father, diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease twelve years earlier. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 2003
ISBN 10: 0919688691ISBN 13: 9780919688698
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This is a collection of a new generation of funny talkers. Poems and stories which find their laughs in different quarters: in the wry, the slapstick, the satiric, and the dark. One of the characteristics of contemporary Canadian literary humour may well be its engagement with popular culture. Here the importance of DKNY, Corey Feldman, Lik M Aid, Randy Savage, John Cougar Mellancamp, the game of Clue, all question the limiting purview of what may be deemed 'serious'. As odd, off-putting, and hilarious as that may be, the authors of Career Suicide find their laughs, as we all do, in the limitations of human experience and, one suspects, pre-mixed mai tais. Presents poems and stories that find their laughs in different quarters: in the wry, the slapstick, the satiric, and the dark. As odd, off-putting, and hilarious as that may be, the authors find their laughs, as we all do, in the limitations of human experience and, one suspects, pre-mixed mai tais. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 1994
ISBN 10: 0919688101ISBN 13: 9780919688100
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A novel dramatising the various and often conflicting ways members of an English-speaking Montreal family try to understand and cope with the Referendum crisis of 1980 in Quebec, The Restoration is one of the few literary looks Canada has at those formative and turbulent years. And with its primary motif of the burning of historic buildings and the destruction of a Canadian political legacy, The Restoration says a good deal about the tensions that continue to beset the country. A novel dramatizing the various and often conflicting ways members of an English-speaking Montreal family try to understand and cope with the Referendum crisis of 1980 in Quebec, The Restoration is one of the few literary looks Canada has at those formative and turbulent years. And with its primary motif of the burning of historic buildings and the destruction of a Canadian political legacy, The Restoration says a good deal about the tensions that continue to beset the country. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 2002
ISBN 10: 0919688616ISBN 13: 9780919688612
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A day-in-the-life novel -- but what a day, what a life! Peter Dube's first novel, "Hovering World" moves effortlessly from sunlight to midnight and far beyond, in passages that are by turns haunting and haunted, surreal and erotic. The arrival of a photograph of an angel sets off a quest of sorts, and along the way we encounter a general named Disarray, essays in art theory, moments of passionate obsession in both the streets of the city and the 'opaque corridors' of a gay sauna. This novel is queer in all the best senses of the word -- non-conformist, eccentric, dissenting, crazed, aberrant and, of course, invaluable. An unforgettable debut. A novel that moves effortlessly from sunlight to midnight and far beyond, in passages that are by turns haunting and haunted, surreal and erotic. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 1999
ISBN 10: 0919688543ISBN 13: 9780919688544
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: new. Brown, Andy (illustrator). Paperback. This debut collection of fiction introduces a brilliant and innovative new voice to Canadian literature. These fourteen stories, interconnected and set in the Toronto punk scene of the 1980s, are startling in the humour and grace they bring to a subculture too often presented in the media as one-dimensional and anti-social. In a language both passionate and wryly self-aware, Jennifer Duncan creates a world that is totally convincing in its detail and its rich humanity. Collects the stories that are interconnected and set in the Toronto punk scene of the 1980s. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 2001
ISBN 10: 0919688780ISBN 13: 9780919688780
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: new. Brown, Andy (illustrator). Paperback. This is the story of Clare, twenty years old and accidentally pregnant, and her return from her native Newfoundland to Inisheer, Ireland. The goal of the journey is to fulfil a pact made five years earlier with her cousin Gillian, after a bizarre set of circumstances led to the end of the surreal and mystical life of Clare's young mother Molly. Clare's despair, and her belief that her genealogy is poisoned', have convinced her that death is the only answer but her search brings her back to people who believe in the possibilities her life holds. The novel is about the decisions we make and those that are made for us, and the power of faith whether it be in God', accident, or the simple possibility of change. A novel that tells the story of Clare, twenty years old and accidentally pregnant, and her return from her native Newfoundland to Inisheer, Ireland. It describes the decisions we make and those that are made for us, and the power of faith whether it be in 'God', accident, or the simple possibility of change. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 2000
ISBN 10: 0919688667ISBN 13: 9780919688667
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Here is the diary of a court lady of Japan from the golden age of Nara, over a thousand years ago. The Naran age, characterised by hierarchy, rigid adherence to tradition and the performance of ritual, was a sophisticated urban society as different from ours as can be imagined. But what is The Pillow Book of Lady Kasa? Is it a legitimate historical document or a flight of invention by a melancholy archaeologist, fatally infected by his own sad past? Either way, The Pillow Book of Lady Kasa strays painfully, touchingly close to the source of its own artifice. In his first novel, Barrie Sherwood weaves a lyrical mystery of two times, making a history that is transformed by fiction but which is no less real for the invention. A diary of a court lady of Japan from the golden age of Nara, over a thousand years ago. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 2002
ISBN 10: 0919688470ISBN 13: 9780919688476
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The terror of atomic war, a paranoid arms race, a stark divide between rich and poor in The Originals, L.E. Vollicks debut novel, Reagan-era legacies such as these are seen from the perspective of nightclub subculture and the food bank. Magpie Smith confronts a street-level zeitgeist of fatalism in the early 1990s, bringing to life in the process a dysfunctional family of disenfranchised youth, from Benny, the self-glamorizing drug dealer to Jackson, the overprotective bouncer at the Underground. When Jackson brutally beats a would-be thief at the club, Magpie must rethink her allegiances. Through a haze of illness, inebriation and LSD, what becomes increasingly clear is that individual interests are beginning to blow the solidarity of the Underground apart. Vexed by the disappearance of her friend and intellectual guide, PK, Magpie tries to hold things together, but is led increasingly to question the fragile foundations of both her own small world and the larger one. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 2005
ISBN 10: 1897190042ISBN 13: 9781897190043
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The thirteen stories in "The Tree of Youth" have a richly exotic, sensuous allure: the landscape shifts from cosmopolitan Canada to beautiful Barbados. They also explore, with understated brilliance, the elation and defeat men and women everywhere experience when they yearn for love and a better life. Here is an unblinking vision of the sexual exploits of Bajans, young and old, one that restores the redeeming values of children, family, and art. Includes the thirteen stories that explore the elation and defeat men and women everywhere experience when they yearn for love and a better life. This title offers a vision of the sexual exploits of Bajans, young and old, one that restores the redeeming values of children, family, and art. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 2009
ISBN 10: 1897190506ISBN 13: 9781897190500
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Funny, smart and sharply composed, Nick McArthurs debut book is just what the title suggests a tome on brevity and heartbreak -- an all-out exploration of weirdness. At its heart, Short Accounts of Tragic Occurrences is a full account of failure, and an inventory of loss. The trials and deprivations probed in McArthur's fiction are of the direst variety: a promising sandwich goes completely uneaten; in another, an elderly woman devolves into a ball of flesh; a high-ranking government official falls madly in love with his fax machine, only to find that his love unrequited. With a wry manner and quick gait, this is a bold gambit from a unique voice in Canadian writing. Funny, smart and sharply composed, Nick McArthurs debut book is just what the title suggests a tome on brevity and heartbreak -- an all-out exploration of weirdness. At its heart, Short Accounts of Tragic Occurrences is a full account of failure, and an inventory of loss. The trials and deprivations probed in McArthur's fiction are of the direst variety: a promising sandwich goes completely uneaten; in another, an elderly woman devolves into a ball of flesh; a high-ranking government official falls madly in love with his fax machine, only to find that his love unrequited. With a wry manner and quick gait, this is a bold gambit from a unique voice in Canadian writing. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 2007
ISBN 10: 1897190190ISBN 13: 9781897190197
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Will Aitken, the editor of this collection of fictions, said in his recommendation for Dube's last novel, "Hovering World", that it is "queer in all the best senses of the word non-conformist, eccentric, dissenting, crazed, aberrant, and, of course, invaluable". What was true of that debut, is more so of Dube's second major work. Again, the reader finds himself in a Big City world of late night neon, narrow streets, lurid bohemian warrens. Roaming and dwelling herein are strange, almost gothic characters with memorable fixations and obsessions. Thom, the protagonist, muses over the artist Terrence who torches his life's work, over Adrian who seals himself in his flat and persuasively writes his friends that he is presently off hunting Vampires in Eastern Europe, and Zack who braves homophobic thugs in the littered, dawn streets in order to slip provocative supplements into the daily newspaper. In a sense, this collection is about individuals whose zany imaginations have finally run away with them somewhat like the bus Thom takes at the end of the book and whose driver announces he's hijacking the vehicle and driving from of the city.On another level, all these characters with their obsessions are the embodiments of Greek mythic archetypes. Thom muses over the artist Terrence who torches his life's work, over Adrian who seals himself in his flat and persuasively writes his friends that he is presently off hunting Vampires in Eastern Europe, and Zack who braves homophobic thugs in the littered, dawn streets in order to slip provocative supplements into the daily newspaper. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 2018
ISBN 10: 1927599202ISBN 13: 9781927599204
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Dispirited by his performance review, Will Gough sets out to redeem himself by updating his companys quality control procedures, while casting a hopeful eye toward other career opportunities. Despite his best intentions, his work troubles follow him home -- to his wife and two sons, where empty yogurt containers are half-sacred, technology a source of childhood wonder, and the business of the world bumps against the quiet walls that protect the rhythms of family life. It's difficult to pull off a portrait of a nice guy in ordinary circumstances, going through the stress of daily living and tensions surrounding job and career opportunities, and he does it very well in simple, understated prose. No sensationalism or alien beings or suicidal desperation or academic angst or terrorist attacks or other assorted rampages and violations: just a life without earthshaking incident, but subtly humourous and convincing. "Edited by Kenneth Radu"--Title page verso. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 2012
ISBN 10: 0919688888ISBN 13: 9780919688889
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. This is a sexy romp packed with mouth-watering descriptions of food, endless supplies of ouzo, gags, and absurd collisions. In this fictional debut by the well-known food-writer, pure laine Quebec locks horns with moneyed Westmount when coquettish, street-wise Arletty Daoust-Tremblay dazzles, then dumps, pampered scion and fledgling experimental filmmaker Ari ePennyloafersi McLeod. But their mothers, in odd alliance, have other ideas. Meanwhile, elsewhere, the loversi fathers throw punches and speechify. Romantic comedy meets political satire. Love In The Age Of Confusion is a tour de force in which opposites attract, myth tussles with myth, and delightful, even delicious explosions go off. Will the politically confounded young lovers reconcile? You bet your kefi (that is Greek for joie de vivre) they will! Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 2015
ISBN 10: 1927599350ISBN 13: 9781927599358
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. When G. Brandon Sisnett dies at his computer a mild spring day in March, he leaves behind two unfinished works in his Montreal home. One, a political tract typical of the kind of rant the reclusive writer was famous for, the other an unexpected box of short fiction none of his publishers was aware existed. At first read a seemingly random collection of .fragments and miscellanea, it soon becomes clear the stories contain a mystery surrounding the sad death of the Barbadian-born authors four-year-old daughter, his retreat from society, and the recurring name of Fairield. An amazing book, Sandifords newest collection is an intimate, insightful look at how we all strive to live with the memory of love and loss. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 2011
ISBN 10: 1897190735ISBN 13: 9781897190739
Seller: CitiRetail, Stevenage, United Kingdom
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. With wit and sensitivity, these tales portray moments of suffering, confusion, and discovery and introduce the reader to worlds as widely various as Japanese kite-making, bees, daycare, alcohol, and motorcycle maintenance. Abrays stories push full-on into the world of obsessions. A new vacuum cleaner becomes a pawn in a just-ended relationship. Riding-a-motorbike becomes the way brothers bond over their troubled relationship with their father. A wise naturalist takes the reader on a comic tour of an animal-filled mall, and a bee infestation in a kitchen forces three urban apartment-sharing youths to suddenly confront nature and their own changing relationship. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 2008
ISBN 10: 1897190441ISBN 13: 9781897190449
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Have you ever wondered what Woody Allen would be like if he were a woman stoked on chick-lit who lived in Toronto? Eva Moran has. This is a collection of fiction that examines the neurotic, desperate, and impotent lady-world of Toronto, and shows a lot of leg while doing it. Bad boyfriends, jobs, and decisions plague the main character of each story in this titillating diary of explicitly dirty laundry. The status quo eludes the main characters. Lover after lost lover, one missed opportunity for a better life after the next, the characters can never seem to get it right but they keep trying in all the wrong ways. Basically, this is a book about badly needing to get a new life and desperately wanting to get laid and each character will die trying .or, well, not die .but will conjure many drunken shenanigans trying. The seemingly autobiographical approach of the pieces makes it feel like you are kneeling at a keyhole peering into a room full of bawdy comedy -- tantalising! Why someone would want to buy Eva Moran's Porny Stories? To enjoy a funny, sexy, smart and articulate take on contemporary values in the city.This book promises to be a good water-cooler type book, providing responses from 'That was so funny!' to 'Ohmygawd! Can you believe what happened there?' The book exists within some known, popular frames (ie: Bridget Jones, Sex and the City) but provides a hip, Canadian and bookish perspective to these frames. People will want to buy Eva Moran's book to feel sexy-funny while retaining their literary discretion. A collection of fiction that examines the neurotic, desperate, and impotent lady-world of Toronto, and shows a lot of leg while doing it. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 2012
ISBN 10: 1897190794ISBN 13: 9781897190791
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Western Canadian writer, Shelley A. Leedahl exposes the emotionally electric lives of men, women, and children with grit, humour, and tenderness. Familial and romantic relationships turn strange or go altogether awry, wild idiosyncrasies develop, and characters navigate their personal joys, ironies, and crashing disasters with courage and grace. These finely crafted contemporary stories resonate with emotion, reject sentimentality, and, like life itself, are impossible to predict. Listen, Honey is an entertaining, thoughtful, and downright sexy book. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 2013
ISBN 10: 1897190921ISBN 13: 9781897190920
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The tale begins in a small village in Turkey where the protagonist, Jefferson Cooper, finds himself (despite himself). He has no idea why he is there, nor who he is. An apparent victim of some sort of selective amnesia, with a suitcase full of money and demonstrably a shady past, he sets out on a voyage of self-discovery. He travels to Istanbul, Mumbai, and Kerala, meeting all manner of people who seem to know him so much better than he knows himself. Along the way, he falls in love with a slender, ethereal person who keeps reappearing just when he seems on the brink of total desperation. It is Miryam who leads him to a realization of who he is and to his long-sought redemption. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 2012
ISBN 10: 1897190875ISBN 13: 9781897190876
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. With surgical precision and understated humour, Kenneth Radu once again demonstrates his remarkable ability to portray ordinary people in sometimes extraordinary circumstances. Whether its the story of an old woman who has given birth, or a professor grieving over the death of his child, or a porn shop owner fighting off the financial predations of his brother, or a wheel-chair bound woman terrified by a voyeur, these stories collectively dramatize the conflict between personal wishes and the hard facts of reality. As the title story suggests, what we dream or think about ourselves may well be pulled down to earth, sometimes with a thud, by the gravitational energy of emotion, relationships, unexpected events, and inescapable truth. As in his previous collection, Sex in Russia, the stories in Earthbound, are all are imbued with Radus subtle irony, deft descriptions, acute insight, and compassion for his characters. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 2012
ISBN 10: 1897190751ISBN 13: 9781897190753
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. When Canadian reality TV producer Jonathan Farb finds out that he may be dying of a brain tumor on the same day that he catches his wife having an affair with her obstetrician, he makes a pledge: to raise his five month-old son Elliot to manhood before his time is up. Farbs list of parenting goals range from instilling a religious identification (can a baby be Bar Mitzvahed?), to the importance of Education (The Birds & The Bees), and onto more pressing pursuits like amassing capital for his son's inheritance. Can Farb succeed in getting his reality TV pitch Canada's Next Great Apologist greenlit despite the opposition of his antagonistic boss, a pathological fear of public speaking, and his declining mental and physical health? An energetic and ultimately poignant literary debut, Failure To Thrive digs deep into the compromises of marriage, the intensity of parenthood and the love that propels a father in the face of his own mortality to raise his son. "When Canadian reality TV producer Jonathan Farb finds out that he may be dying of a brain tumor on the same day that he catches his wife having an affair with her obstetrician, he makes a pledge: to raise his five month-old son Elliot to manhood before his time is up."--Provided by publisher. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 2016
ISBN 10: 1927599261ISBN 13: 9781927599266
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The title of Why Cats Hate Birds very much reflects the collections themes. Are we trapped by our nature? And what is our understanding of nature? What is black and white, straight and gay, reality and fantasy, Canadian and Barbadian? The stories in Why Cats Hate Birds are Armstrongs way of saying that such distinctions are not natural but of our own construction. The work spans the length of Armstrongs writing career. The earliest, Flying in Gods Face, which inspired his novel Of Water and Rock, is set in the 1960s, though the majority take place in a today familiar to us all. Three stories in particular are linked by the character Charles Blackette: Kingdom of Fools, Invention and Blood is Thick. They explore Blackettes life as a black man who battles his notion of self. But, at heart, all the stories in Why Cats Hate Birds, perceptive, resonant, emotionally honest, are an attempt to break those silos that separate us, and make us realize that other peoples stories are our stories. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 2016
ISBN 10: 1897190948ISBN 13: 9781897190944
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. The disasters of 9/11 trigger a Cataclysm that is unleashed every so many cycles. It can only be averted by the selfless act of the Elect, a trio of exceptional humans who are guided by Milton, a being known as an Elder. The three, all Barbadians, are David Rayside, Marsha Durant and Franck Hurley. And it is their time: to save the world before the deadliest characters of their legends and myths-the baccou, the steel donkey, la djables, and the heart man-destroy it.All their lives, the Elect have had their abilities: David, the power of flight; Marsha, incredible strength; and Franck, super speed. With great power may come great responsibility, yet the choice to act or not remains theirs. Milton, like his adversary, Mackie (short for Machiavelli), is an Elder who can inform, not influence, the course of events. Are the Elect mature enough to decide what's best for humanity? The longer they take to agree to Milton's plan, which he can't reveal until they are all on board, the more their world is overrun with Caribbean folklore creatures.Set in Bridgetown and Montreal ('where much of the Diaspora live'), And Sometimes They Fly questions notions of the heroic.Where do heroes-a region's but also a culture's heroes-come from? George Woodcock once noted that, unlike Americans or the British, 'Canadians do not like heroes, and so they do not have them.' Humanity is in trouble if this is also true about Barbadians. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Published by DC Books,Canada, Montreal, QC, 2013
ISBN 10: 1897190905ISBN 13: 9781897190906
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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. In present day Montreal, a young woman by the name of Percy vanishes from the streets. The woman's parents -- her father, a famous musician, and her mother, a witch -- are frantic. Soon after the woman's disappearance strange phenomena sweep the globe: snow and ice fall of season in record amounts, blanketing whole countries. World-wide crop failures are announced, droughts become widespread, and then the worst happens: daylight fails to appear.What follows is the epic tale of Percy's voyage through the Underworld, whose rules of existence are as unfathomable as the mysterious red flowers that suddenly blanket its fields. As daylight touches the dark realm, Percy unwittingly becomes the permanent guest of the Underworld's charismatic lord Pluto. And when her best friend Simon, a descendent of a long line of shamans, descends in an effort to save her, the three embark on a life and death race to figure out what - or who - has upset the balance between the two worlds before it's too late.Wonder-filled, imaginative, and compelling, L E Sterling's sophomore novel immerses readers in a magical world where existence itself is ordered by the tenuous balance between light and dark, and the story-filled pages of one remarkable book. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.