Chiwid

Author : Diana Wilson
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 9781894974288
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Heart of the Cariboo-Chilcotin written by Diana Wilson and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Heart of the Cariboo-Chilcotin anthology celebrates the story of this harshly beautiful and remote region in B.C.'s north. From the days of the gold rush through to modern times, this collection captures the spirit of a place whose beauty and wildness have inspired its people throughout its history."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Bruce Serafin
Publisher : New Star Books
ISBN 13 : 1554200334
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Stardust written by Bruce Serafin and published by New Star Books. This book was released on 2007-11-20 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: WINNER of the EDNA STAEBLER AWARD for CREATIVE NON–FICTION From its opening image of the varied workforce at a Vancouver postal station, Stardust is a series of literary essays defining Bruce Serafin's world. The teenage Serafin is a captivating figure, freshly arrived from the United States and eager to immerse himself in the particular delights of a still largely frontier–era Vancouver. As a young man enrolled at SFU, he refuses the perm pressed upon him in a Chinatown barber shop and eavesdrops on his rowdy neighbours in a Powell Street apartment house. Working in the post office, Serafin discovers Michel Tremblay's The Fat Woman Next Door is Pregnant and realizes for the first time that writing about working–class people is not only possible, but desirable. Later, Serafin embarks upon an intimate criticism of touchstones of Western culture. Roland Barthes and Daniel Defoe are counterparts, he suggests, and shows why. Leonard Cohen was read so avidly by the young proto–hippies of the era not because of his writing, but because he physically modelled a way to be cool. The ceremonial objects collected by anthropologists, according to Serafin, are not actually art but something else again. Serafin critiques literary magazines and western novels. He discusses the work of Don DeLillo, Terry Glavin, Steve McCaffery, Northrop Frye, and William Henry Drummond. There's an engagement to these essays that lightly sketches the workings of a mind forever learning.

Author : British Columbia Library Association
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 164 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book B C L A Reporter written by British Columbia Library Association and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sage Birchwater
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780921586395
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Chiwid written by Sage Birchwater and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chiwid was a Tsilhqot'in woman, said to have shamanistic powers, who spent most of her adult life living out in the hills and forests around Williams Lake, BC. Chiwid is the story of this remarkable woman told in the vibrant voices of Chilcotin oldtimers, both native and non-native.Chiwid is Number 2 in the Transmontanus series of books edited by Terry Glavin.

Author : Frances Greenslade
Publisher : Random House Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307360334
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Shelter written by Frances Greenslade and published by Random House Canada. This book was released on 2011-08-23 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A spellbinding and wise coming-of-age story, Shelter draws readers into the precarious world of two young sisters in search of their mother, and brings to life the breathtaking B.C. landscape through which they travel. Maggie Dillon lives with her family in a small, roughly furnished cabin in B.C.’s Chilcotin region, where the land and the native peoples who’ve always called it home have taken in both pioneer settlers and latecomers like the Dillons. Her sister, Jenny, is the elder of the two, but Maggie seems beyond her years with how much she worries about what might happen to her family, so certain she is that threats to her family’s cozy but fragile life in Duchess Creek are never far away. Her beautiful mother, Irene, takes the girls on magical camping adventures and has a carefree love of life. Maggie’s careful father, on the other hand, takes her on outings to the bush where he shows her how to build lean-tos using leaves, sticks and fir boughs. Just in case. You never know when you might need to find some shelter for the night. When her father is killed in a logging accident, Maggie thinks her worst fear has come true, but his death is only the first blow in the destruction of her family. Soon her mother, the one person Maggie has never worried about, abruptly drops off her girls in Williams Lake to billet with the gloomy Bea Edwards and her wheelchair-bound husband, Ted. Irene promises she’ll be back for them, but weeks turn to months and then to years. When trouble finds the girls for the third time, it comes for Jenny, and fourteen-year-old Maggie decides that the time has come to search out their mother and repair their fractured family. Her quest not only to find but to understand her mother brings the novel to a powerful, wrenching conclusion. Shelter’s emotional richness, and Maggie’s distinctive voice, evoke the bestselling novels of Miriam Toews and Mary Lawson. Greenslade’s prose captures the exquisite beauty of the Chilcotin, the precious comfort of family and the poignant realization that we may never fully understand the people we love. Shelter was first published as part of Knopf and Random House Canada’s renowned New Face of Fiction program, which each year brings the cream of the crop of Canada’s first-time novelists to readers, and has launched the careers of numerous authors who have taken their place amongst Canada’s best. From the start, Shelter received outstanding reviews, and the book has since been named as a finalist for the B.C. Book Prizes’ Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and for the Evergreen Awards in Ontario. Shelter has also been published in the United States and in Britain – where the country’s largest book chain, Waterstones, named it one of the eleven best debut novels of the year – and rights have been sold to publishers in Germany and the Netherlands.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 734 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canadian Book Review Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Richard B. Noss
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.48/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Thai written by Richard B. Noss and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Terry Glavin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book This Ragged Place written by Terry Glavin and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this groundbreaking portrait of the uneasy state of the province, Terry Glavin's lyrical narratives reveal the fibre of a British Columbia rarely glimpsed. With journalistic acumen, he surveys a landscape of inexorable suburban sprawl, dismantled railway lines, scapegoating of Native fisheries, and strange goings-on at Gustafsen Lake. A new breed of travelogue, "This Ragged Place" will leave the taste of oolichan grease on your lips and the seeds of a transcendent new British Columbian mythology in your mind. "This Ragged Place" earned Glavin a Governor General's Award finalist distinction in 1997.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1372 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Library Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: