ONE GOOD STORY, THAT ONE: STORIES BY THOMAS KING.

King, Thomas. Inscribed.

ISBN 10: 0002240009 / ISBN 13: 9780002240000

Published by HarperPerennial, Toronto, 1993

About this Item

145 pp, small 8vo (7 13/16" H). INSCRIBED ON TITLE PAGE: "FOR LARRY - THANKS FOR THE INTRO (?) GOOD LUCK WITH THE WRITING BEST THOMAS KING". Ten stories by "one of the first rank of contemporary Native American writers". Contents: One Good Story, That One; Totem; Magpies; Trap Lines; How Corporal Colin Sterling Saved Blossom, Alberta, and Most of the Rest of the World as Well; The One About Coyote Going West; A Seat in the Garden; Joe the Painter and the Deer Island Massacre; A Coyote Columbus Story; Borders; Acknowledgements. Interior - clean and tight with no previous ownership marks. Exterior - minor soiling to edges of textblock, tiny very light ink mark on fore-edge of text block, minor rubbing. Seller Inventory # 20911

Bibliographic Details

Title: ONE GOOD STORY, THAT ONE: STORIES BY THOMAS ...

Publisher: HarperPerennial, Toronto

Publication Date: 1993

Binding: Soft Cover with Self Flaps

Condition: Very Good+

Signed: Inscribed By Author

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

Named in the University of Toronto Bookstore Review as one of the top100 Canadian books of all time

There is much more than one good story in this bestselling (over 10,000 copies sold) collection of short fiction. In fact, there are more than a few of the best examples of native storytelling ever published. Thomas King, author of the acclaimed Medicine River and Green Grass, Running Water, and the newly released Truth and Bright Water, has proven he has a magical gift, a fresh voice and a special brand of wit and comic imagination. 

One Good Story, That One is steeped in native oral tradition, led off by a sly creation tale, introducing the traditional native trickster coyote. Weaving the realities of native history and contemporary life through the story, King recounts a parodic version of the Garden of Eden story, slyly pulling our leg and our funnybone.

A collection that is rich with strong characters, alive with crisp dialogue and shot through with the universal truths we are all searching for, One Good Story, That One is one great read.

About the Author:

THOMAS KING is an award-winning writer whose fiction includes Green Grass, Running Water; Truth and Bright Water and The Back of the Turtle, which won the Governor General’s Literary Award. His non-fiction book The Truth About Stories won the Trillium Book Award, while The Inconvenient Indian won the B.C. National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and the RBC Taylor Prize. A member of the Order of Canada and the recipient of an award from the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation, Thomas King has taught at the University of Lethbridge and was chair of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota before moving to the University of Guelph, where he taught until he retired. He lives in Guelph with his partner, Helen Hoy. Cold Skies is the third novel in Thomas King’s DreadfulWater series.