Revved

MacIntyre, R. P.

ISBN 10: 1894345460 / ISBN 13: 9781894345460

Published by Thistledown Press, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 2002

About this Item

A collection of short stories from an award winning author about adolescence that journeys into the delight and terror of emerging self-consciousness. Glossy pictorial soft covers. 173pp. Very slight edgewear and slight fold/curl to one leaf. Nice copy.

Seller Inventory # 001141

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Revved
• Publisher: Thistledown Press, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1894345460
• ISBN 13: 9781894345460
• Binding: Pictorial Wraps
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No DJ Issued
• Seller catalogs:
  • Canadian Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

Once again R.P. MacIntyre ups the speed limit with a collection of stories that are journeys into the delight and terror of emerging self-consciousness. From a strange party in honour of a dying hamster to a young man’s quest to find his missing sister, Revved resonates with the authentic experiences of today’s youth and the reverberations of their extraordinary imaginations.

About the Author

R.P. MacIntyre is an actor, playwright, director and one of Canada's most acclaimed authors of fiction with young adult voices. He is the author of Yuletide Blues (1991), The Blue Camaro (1994), and The Crying Jesus (1997). His story "The Rink" - published in The Blue Jean Collection (1994) and The Blue Camaro - won the 1993 Vicky Metcalf Short Story Award in 1993 and was made into a film in 1997. He is also the editor of Takes: Stories for Young Adults which won the 1996 Saskatchewan Book Award for Publishing in Education and the Canadian Library Association's 1997 Young Adult Award. R.P. MacIntyre lives in Candle Lake, Saskatchewan.