Verlag: Book*hug, Toronto, On, Canada, 2009
ISBN 10: 1897388284 ISBN 13: 9781897388280
Anbieter: The Second Reader Bookshop, Buffalo, NY, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: Good+. First Edition; First Printing. First Edition, First Printing (No additional printings stated). Good with moderate wear with some creasing to covers and no marks to text. Poetry; Department Of Critical Thought; Oblong 8vo 8" to 9" tall; 168 pages.
Verlag: Book*Hug Press, Toronto, 2021
Anbieter: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Kanada
Paperback. Advance Reading Copy. pp. 198. 8vo. Uncorrected proof. Lightest shelfwear; near fine.
Verlag: Book*hug, Canada, Toronto, 2019
ISBN 10: 1771665424 ISBN 13: 9781771665421
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Winner of RBC Bronwen Wallace Award for Emerging Writers Winner of CBC Poetry Prize Shortlisted for the 2020 Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Longlisted for the 2020 Pat Lowther Memorial Award From hybrid bodies to shifting landscapes, Re-Origin of Species blurs the lines of the real. These poems journey through illness and altered states to position disability and madness as evolutionary traits; skilled adaptations aligned with ecological change. A lyric contemplation of our relationship to the environment, this book looks at the interdependence of species. Weaving personal narratives with a study of the insect kingdom, it draws parallels between human illness, climate change, and the state of peril in the natural world. Praise for Re-Origin of Species: "In this debut collection of startling beauty, Alessandra Naccarato weaves together the mythological and mundane, the ephemeral and the eternal, into a luminous tapestry of lyric and narrative. Naccarato's shimmering threads illuminate the connections that bind together every living thing on every level of beingfrom the interpersonal, to the political, to the spiritual. This is exquisite, playful, intentional poetryand it just might be medicine for us all." Kai Cheng Thom, author of I HOPE WE CHOOSE LOVE: A Trans Girl's Notes From the End of the World "What a hive of a bookthese poems are so urgent, gorgeous, and necessary. Re-Origin of Species is a siren's call and warning siren all at once." Leah Horlick, author of For Your Own Good "Ranging from the sting of personal loss to navigating landscapes full of promise, Naccarato?s poetry interrogates the place where the personal meets the wild." 2015 RBC Bronwen Wallace Award Jury. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Book*hug Press, Toronto, 2021
ISBN 10: 1771660309 ISBN 13: 9781771660303
Anbieter: BISON BOOKS - ABAC/ILAB, Winnipeg, MB, Kanada
Paperback. pp. 185. 8vo. Lightest shelfwear; near fine.
Verlag: Book*hug, Canada, Toronto, 2011
ISBN 10: 1897388810 ISBN 13: 9781897388815
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. WINNER OF THE 75th GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR POETRY WINNER OF THE 25th TRILLIUM BOOK PRIZE WINNER OF AN ALCUIN AWARD FOR DESIGN SHORTLISTED FOR THE GRIFFIN POETRY PRIZE These are poems of critical thought that have been influenced by old fiddle tunes. These are essays that are not out to persuade so much as ruminate, invite, accrue. Hall is a surruralist (rural & surreal), and a terroir-ist (township-specific regionalist). He offers memories of, and homages to -- Margaret Laurence, Bronwen Wallace, Libby Scheier, and Daniel Jones, among others. He writes of the embarrassing process of becoming a poet, and of his push-pull relationship with the whole concept of home. His notorious 2004 chapbook essay The Bad Sequence is also included here, for a wider readership, at last. It has been revised. (It's teeth have been sharpened.) In this book, the line is the unit of composition; the reading is wide; the perspective personal: each take a give, and logic a drawback. Language is not a smart-aleck; it's a sacred tinkerer. Readers are invited to watch awe become a we. In Fred Wah's phrase, what is offered here is "the music at the heart of thinking. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.
Verlag: Book*hug, Toronto, 2024
ISBN 10: 1771668733 ISBN 13: 9781771668736
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. From award-winning writer Johanna Skibsrud,Mediumshares the lives and perspectives of women who-in their roles as biological, physical, or spiritual mediums-have helped to shape the course of history.Helen of Troy, Anne Boleyn, Shakuntala Devi, Hypatia of Alexandria, Marie Curie: Mediuminterprets the voices of women vilified over time, silenced by famous husbands, forced into sex work, or wrongly accused. Reckoning with the dominant historical narratives of each woman's era, Skibsrud underscores the power of poetry to bring about new formulations for understanding the relationship between past and present, self and other.These deeply resonant and performative poems use language as a bridge across experience, sensibility, and time. Each exploration begins with a brief vignette inspired by the "vidas" that once began manuscripts of the troubadours. Both vidas and poems provide lyrical reinterpretations of real and imagined elements in the lives of scholars, scientists, computer engineers, mystics, entrepreneurs, artists, nurses, and other leaders. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Book*hug, Toronto, 2023
ISBN 10: 1771668202 ISBN 13: 9781771668200
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In She Who Lies Above, Beatriz Hausner brings Hypatia of Alexandria, the fourth-century Byzantine mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, to life. She does so through layered ventriloquism: publishing amorous correspondence from the feminist icons friend and former student, Synesius the Cyrene, and scribing Hypatias replies in turn. These letters are discovered by Bettina Ungaro, a librarian and archivist by day, poet by night. She, in turn, collates the correspondence to build a vision of the couples relationship while writing a kind of postmodern critique of contemporary book and reading culture. These interjections both borrow from and juxtapose writing from ancient times, and, in doing so, explore the evolution of modern knowledge keeping. The result is a rigorous, hyper-layered collection of poems that are elegiac and erotic; steeped in appreciation for a life of books and the technical and transcendent brilliance their authors can exhibit. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Book*hug, Toronto, 2024
ISBN 10: 1771668822 ISBN 13: 9781771668828
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. From poet Chantal Neveu, author of the award-winning collection This Radiant Life,comes a book-length poem that plunges us more deeply into the notion of the idyll and into the polyhedric structure of love.you demonstrates with exceptional beauty how in the interval between words or verses, language can glimmer, absorb, and refract the changing realities and attractions of an all too human relationship.Personal autonomy and the formation of "self" are nourished here by multiples-I, you, s/he. The voice inyoureclaims life from change and time and affirms it anew. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Book*hug, Toronto, 2024
ISBN 10: 1771668768 ISBN 13: 9781771668767
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Shani Mootoo's great-great-grandparents were brought to Trinidad as indentured labourers by the British. There is no record of where they were from in India or whether it was kidnapping, trickery, or false promises of wealth that took them to the Caribbean.In Oh Witness Dey! Mootoo expands the question of origins, from ancestry percentages and journey narratives, through memory, story, and lyric fragments. These vibrant poems transcend the tropes of colonial violence through saints and spices, rebellion and joy, to reimagine tensions and solidarities among various diasporas. They circumvent traditional conventions of style to find new routes toward understanding. They invite the reader to witness history, displacements, and the legacies of our inheritance. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Book*hug, Toronto, 2023
ISBN 10: 1771668563 ISBN 13: 9781771668569
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Winner of the 2024 Pat Lowther Memorial AwardSandra Ridley's latest book offers a breathtaking, harrowing immersion in cruelty behind different veils: the medieval hunt, ecological collapse, and intimate partner violence.Sparked by a haunting chance encounter with a fox, and told in six chapters of varying form, Vixen is as visceral as it is mysterious, sensuous as it is terrifying."Thicket" introduces us to stalking being akin to hunting; the similar threat of terror and-too often-a violent end. "Twitchcraft" locates the hunt in the home, the wild in the domestic, while "Season of the Haunt" explores the unrelenting nature of hunting. "Stricken" asks common questions that often implicitly justify such violence: Is the harassment 'bad enough' to allow us to label it criminal? Has all control been taken? Is the fear reasonable?Vixen propels us to examine the nature of empathy, what it means to be a compassionate witness, and what happens when brutality is so ever-present that we become numb. This is a beautiful, difficult, wild tapestry of defiance and survival. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Book*hug, Toronto, 2023
ISBN 10: 1771668504 ISBN 13: 9781771668507
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Confessional and immersive, Michael V. Smith's latest collection is a broad tapestry that explores growing up queer and working class, then growing into an urban queer life.In these poems, we are immersed in the world of a young Smith as he shares the awkward dinners, the funerals, and the uncertainty of navigating fraught dynamics, bringing us into these most intimate moments of family life while outrunning deep grief. Smith moves from first home to first queer experiences: teenage crushes, video cameras, post-club hookups, fears and terrors, closeted lovers, and daydreams of confronting your childhood bully.Queers Like Me is an enveloping book- a meditation on family complexity and a celebration of personal insight. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Book*hug Press, Toronto, Ontario, 2021
ISBN 10: 1771666900 ISBN 13: 9781771666909
Anbieter: Hourglass Books, Vancouver, BC, Kanada
Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Canadian First. First Edition stated on verso of title page; a solid, clean, unread copy in collectible condition; 92 pages. Book.
Verlag: Book*hug, Toronto, 2024
ISBN 10: 1771669004 ISBN 13: 9781771669009
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Married and divorced in her 20s, looking for friendship in her 30s, and contemplating pregnancy at 40, our narrator wonders if she's going through life out of order. But Alice, The Turtle, The Kid, and other beloveds show her that motherhood is more than giving birth, art is never finished, and love is not linear.Through a three-day canoe trip, chance encounters, fierce female friendship, step-parenting, IVF, pandemic isolation, and quiet moments between humans, These Songs I Know By Heart weaves vignettes of everyday mythology into an absorbing and honest meditation on the connections in our lives. With razor-sharp reflection, humour, and most of all love, we are reminded that there's no formula to life and that instead, we must celebrate what makes the small moments of our lives extraordinary. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Book*hug, Toronto, 2023
ISBN 10: 1771668539 ISBN 13: 9781771668538
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The latest poetry and artwork collection from Hana Shafi examines the unlikely connections we make to the people and places we encounter. Despite the infinite variations of our lives, every urban dweller has sparred with a neighbour they disliked, seen beautiful strangers on public transit, told secrets to their hairdresser. We interact with these supporting characters on a daily basis-and often we are them for others.Shafi celebrates the Antiheroes of the world (the alcoholic at your local bar, teenage girls); examines those in Beautiful Leading Roles (the hot professor, the rich couple); lauds older generations of Wizards and Crones; and flags the Nemeses (men who think they're allies, competitors for produce at farmer's markets). We sink into recognition at depictions of Palaces such as the greasy spoon, Dungeons of public transit, and the Liminal Spaces of checkout counters or waiting rooms (including that one at the end of the cosmos).People You Know, Places You've Been is an insightful, charming collection that offers a sense of shared recognition and nostalgia, ultimately asking: what if seemingly mundane places are actually the foundations of who you are? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Book*hug, Toronto, 2024
ISBN 10: 1771669039 ISBN 13: 9781771669030
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Monsters, Martyrs, and Marionettes is a revelatory collection of personal essays that subverts the stereotypes and transcends the platitudes of family life to examine motherhood with blistering insight.Documenting the birth and early life of her three daughters, Adrienne Gruber shares what it really means to use one's body to bring another life into the world and the lasting ramifications of that act on both parent and child. Each piece peers into the seemingly mundane to show us the mortal and emotional consequences of maternal bonds, placing experiences of "being a mom" within broader contexts-historical, literary, biological, and psychological-to speak to the ugly realities of parenthood often omitted from mainstream conversations.Ultimately, these deeply moving, graceful essays force us to consider how close we are to death, even in the most average of moments, and how beauty is a necessary celebration amidst the chaos of being alive. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Book*hug, Toronto, 2024
ISBN 10: 1771668946 ISBN 13: 9781771668941
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Monica, a young woman studying art history in Montreal, has lost touch with her Innu roots. When an exhibition unexpectedly articulates a deep, intergenerational wound, she begins to search for stronger connections to her Indigeneity. A new friendship with Katherine, an Indigenous woman whose life is filled with culture and community, emphasizes for Monica the possibilities of turning from assimilation and toxic masculinity to something deeper and more universal.Travelling across the continent, from Eastern Canada to Vancouver to Mexico City, Monica connects with other Indigenous artists and thinkers, learning about their traditional ways and the struggles of other Nations. Throughout these journeys, she is guided by visions of giant birds and ancestors that draw her back home to Pessamit. Reckonings with family and floods await, but amidst strange tides, she reconnects to her language, Innu-aimun, and her people.A timely, riveting story of reclamation, matriarchies, and the healing power of traditional teachings, Nauetakuan, a silence for a noise affirms how reconnecting to lineage and community can transform Indigenous futures. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Book*hug, Toronto, 2024
ISBN 10: 1771668970 ISBN 13: 9781771668972
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Shael lives in a vast prison camp, a monstrosity developed after centuries of warfare and environmental catastrophe. As a young transfeminine person, they risk abject violence if their identity and love affair with Coe, an insurrectionary activist, are discovered. But desire and rebellion flare, and soon Shael escapes to Riverwish, a settlement attempting to forge a new way of living that counters the camp's repression.As the complexities of this place unfold before Shael, Disobedience asks: How can a community redress harm without reproducing unaccountable forms of violence? How do we heal? What might a compassionate, sustainable model of justice look like?This is a remarkable work of queer and trans speculative fiction that imagines how alternative forms of connection and power can refuse the violent institutions that engulf us. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Book*hug, Toronto, 2023
ISBN 10: 1771668059 ISBN 13: 9781771668057
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A widow visits a spiritualist community to attempt to contact her late husband. A grieving teenager confronts the unfairness of his small-town world and the oncoming ecological disaster. A sexual assault survivor navigates her boyfriend's tricky family and her own confusing desires. A mother examines unresolved guilt while seeking her missing daughter in a city slum. A lover exploits his girlfriend's secrets for his own purposes. Whether in Ecuador or San Francisco, rural Ontario or northern Manitoba, the landscape in each of Carter's poignant short stories reflects each character's journey.Psychologically complex and astute, Places Like These plumbs the vast range of human reactions to those things which make us humanlove, grief, friendship, betrayal, and the intertwined yet contrasting longing for connection and independence. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Book*hug, Toronto, 2023
ISBN 10: 1771668342 ISBN 13: 9781771668347
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Having grown up as an only child in Northern Sweden, Lydia is used to isolation and being on her own. She fills her days with her love of animals, nature, and hard work. She eventually settles into a career as a vet in rural Norway and embraces the rhythms of country life. In a series of poetic sketches, Lydia tends to the animals in her community, spends time with her aging parents, and falls in love. Despite an increasing need for closer human contact that begins to encroach on her contented solitude, ultimately it is Lydia's satisfaction with her inner life that speaks of an elegance and hope often lost in these clamoring times.Winner of the Brage Prize, the most prestigious award in Norwegian Literature, The Loneliness in Lydia Erneman's Life is a quiet, beautiful exploration of solitude and how we relate to other beings. It has been lauded by European critics for doing something very rare: offering deep pleasure and joy in reading with little theatrics.Written in concise prose, the gravity and tranquility of this novel make it a gifta soothing, contemplative offering about the depths of our inner worlds. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Book*hug, Toronto, 2023
ISBN 10: 177166861X ISBN 13: 9781771668613
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Shortlisted for the 2024 Amazon Canada First Novel AwardWinner of the 2022 Prix littraire des CollgiensNominated for the 2021 Prix des libraires du QuebecCaroline is seven years old when her family flees Pinochet's regime, leaving Chile for Montreal on Christmas Eve, 1986. She fears Santa won't find them on the plane but wakes to find a new doll at her side, her mother preserving the holiday even amidst persecution and turmoil. This symbol of care is repeated throughout their relocation as her parents work tirelessly to provide the family with a new vision of the future.Once in Canada, Caroline accompanies her parents as they clean banks at night. She experiences racist microaggressions at school, discovers Qubcois popular culture, and explores her love of reading and writing in French. Slowly, the Andean peaks disappear from Caroline's drawings and a fracture between her parents' identity and her own begins to grow.This expansive coming-of-age autobiographical novel probes the plurality of identity, elucidating the interwoven complexities of immigrating to a new country.As the Andes Disappearedtenderly reflects the journey of millions and is a beautiful ode to family commitment and the importance of home-however layered that may be. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Book*hug, Toronto, 2023
ISBN 10: 1771668474 ISBN 13: 9781771668477
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Having followed the brilliant virologist Regnier from Montreal to Marseille many years ago, Sadie now works as a researcher in a lab, spending most of her time among microscopic creatures who teach her about life as a parasite. By day, she pushes the limits of her understanding alongside Regnier, who taught her that to study viruses, she must think infectiously, allow herself to be contaminated by dangerous ideas. By night, Sadie loses herself in bars, music, drugs, sensuality. Until she gets a call from the past that lures her back across the Atlantic.When her estranged father tells her that a bizarre virus has been found in his hospital, Sadie returns to Montreal and her family, and all the unexpected changes time has wrought, to solve this new puzzle. Soon she realizes that the person she thought she wassomeone who can leave everything behindno longer exists. What is left for her instead is sinking into the unknown to find out what happens when ideas come to life. This is a deeply inventive and singular novel about the power of metamorphosis and symbiosis. Combining the cerebral and the sensual, Sadie X explores humanitys relationship to the rest of the world, and the role of rationaleand its limits in our multilayered, regenerative existences. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Book*hug, Toronto, 2024
ISBN 10: 1771668679 ISBN 13: 9781771668675
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. How much grief is too much? How far should we go to avoid pain? From the author of the international bestselling novel Agatha comes a literary thriller about grief, love, science, and societal norms. A Danish university research group is finishing its study of a new medicine, Callocain: the worlds first pill for grief. But psychology professor Thorsten Gjeldsted suspects that someone has manipulated the numbers to hide a disturbing side effect. When no one believes him, he teams up with two young students to investigate: Anna, who has recently experienced traumatic grief herself, and Shadi, whose statistical skills might prevent her from living a quiet life in the shadows. Together, these sleuthing academics try to discover whats really happening before the drug is released to the entire population. Blue Notes is brimming with ethical and existential ideas about the search for identity and ones place in the world, while offering a highly original literary adventure that ultimately underscores the healing power of love. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Book*hug, Toronto, 2023
ISBN 10: 177166844X ISBN 13: 9781771668446
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. With dreamlike stories and dark humor, Anecdotes is a hybrid collection in four parts examining the pressing realities of sexual violence, abuse, and environmental collapse. Absurdist flash fictions in The Boy is Dead depict characters such as a woman lamenting a stolen laptop the day the world ends; and birds slamming into glass buildings. Were Not Here to Talk About Aliens follows a young protagonist from childhood to early 20s, through the murky undercurrent of potential violence amidst sexual awakening, from first periods to flashers, sticker books to maxi pad art, acid trips to blackouts, and creepy professors to close calls. This Isnt a Conversation shares one-liners from overheard conversations, found texts, diary entries, and random thoughts: many are responses to the absurdity and pain of the current political and environmental climate. In My Dream House, the past and the future are personified as various incarnations in relationships to one another (lovers, a parent and child, siblings, friends), all engaged in ongoing conflict. These varied, immersive works bristle with truth in the face of unprecedented change. They are playful forms for serious times. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Book*hug, Toronto, 2023
ISBN 10: 1771668415 ISBN 13: 9781771668415
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In Baraffo, a town gripped by revolutionary fervour, a boy named Mazzu grapples to understand the motivations of Babello, a man imprisoned for an act of arson. When Babello begins a hunger strike and another building is set ablaze, tensions mount among the citizens and Mazzu considers a risky solution. Within an extraordinary world, this sweeping and mythical story asks prescient questions about the nature of social change: is it better accelerated by those who seek total transformation or attained by those trying to work within the system? Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Book*hug, Toronto, 2024
ISBN 10: 1771668709 ISBN 13: 9781771668705
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. This tenth-anniversary edition of Kate Cayley's award-winning collection includes three new stories.A young mother intrudes into the life of an older woman, thinking she knows what's best. An academic becomes convinced that he is haunted by his double. Two children spy on their supposedly criminal neighbours. A man enables his cousin's predatory impulses out of loyalty, and a circus performer dreams of a perfect wedding. These characters fail despite their best intentions and continue on despite their failures.The stories in How You Were Born, each more incisive and devastating than the last, examine the difficult business of love, loyalty, and memory. Sharing the bizarre and tragi-comic of life-whether in present-day Toronto or in small towns of the early 20th century-Cayley champions the importance of connections, even when missed or mislaid, and the possibility of redemption. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Book*hug, Toronto, 2023
ISBN 10: 1771668318 ISBN 13: 9781771668316
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In an unnamed town in the summer of 1998, Judy is an isolated and inexperienced teenager on the cusp of adulthood struggling to craft an identity for herselfespecially as the artist she wants to be.There is little help around her. Her only friends are increasingly obsessed with a cultish belief in a coming "Big Shadow." Her mother is afraid of life and finds solace in TV shows. At her lowest point, Judy meets Maurice Blunt, a visiting summer poetry class professor who is a "has-been" fixture of the 1970s NYC punk music scene. Judy believes Mauricea man more than twice her age desperately seeking lost adorationis the ticket out of her current life. Soon, she begins taking secret weekend trips to visit him.Judy's visits to his apartment in New York bring hopes of belonging to the city's cultural world and making a living as a video artist. With each trip and frustrated promise, however, she feels the creeping realization that there is a price to pay for her golden ticket entry into this insular and moribund scene. Judy must navigate the shifting power dynamics with her aging gatekeeper and the possibility of building an early adult identity alone.An affecting novel of psychological nuance and dark humour, Big Shadow explores the costs of self-deceit, fandom, and tenuous ambitions, exposing the lies well tell ourselves and the promises we'll make to edge closer to what we want or what we think we want. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Book*hug, Toronto, 2024
ISBN 10: 1771668792 ISBN 13: 9781771668798
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. You will talk about 2016. You will talk about The Lighted City. You will be brave and truthful. You will get to the bottom of what happened.Paul (Paulina) Hayes loves her cousin Adrian. Inseparable from a young age, they play The Lighted City, an imaginary world where they pretend to live together and can escape a childhood that seems both too sad and too grown-up. But The Lighted City isn' t without danger.Years later, Paul is struggling with PTSD after a season of turmoil- one in which Adrian is dead, and radio and television are filled with reports of missing children. Just as stability is settling into her life and relationships, Paul is dragged back into the fate that Adrian seems to have scripted for them. And so she finds herself journeying across the country, down into a ravine, and back to The Lighted City, where so much of her childhood played out. Only by doing so can she begin to come to terms with " the day everything happened" - and what has unfolded since then.With a unique blend of contemporary storytelling and psychological fiction, Play is a haunting, riveting novel that reminds us of both the beauty and danger of imagination. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Book*Hug Press, Toronto, 2009
ISBN 10: 1897388470 ISBN 13: 9781897388471
Anbieter: The Second Reader Bookshop, Buffalo, NY, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition; First Printing. First Edition, First Printing (Stated). Very Good with light wear to covers and no marks to text. Broadside of "How" laid in. Poetry ; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 96 pages.
Verlag: Book*hug, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2018
ISBN 10: 1771663820 ISBN 13: 9781771663823
Anbieter: Bay Used Books, Sudbury, ON, Kanada
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Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. 1st Edition. No visible defects. Pictures available upon request.
Verlag: Book Hug Press, Toronto, ON, Canada, 2020
ISBN 10: 1771666218 ISBN 13: 9781771666213
Anbieter: Bay Used Books, Sudbury, ON, Kanada
Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Very good condition. Light wear. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictures available upon request.