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Verlag: Vehicule Press, Canada, Montreal, QC, 2012
ISBN 10: 1550653172ISBN 13: 9781550653175
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Paperback. Zustand: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine.
Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 2023
ISBN 10: 1550656082ISBN 13: 9781550656084
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Letters From Montreal documents the experiences of Montrealers past and present, creating a portrait of the storied city unlike any other. Drawn from the celebrated column in Maisonneuve magazine, this anthology features writers documenting a quintessential part of local life. Narrated with the intimacy of journal entries, each letter bridges the playful and profound. In early dispatches, Melissa Bull ditches a boyfriend over petanque in Parc Laurier; Sean Michaels watches Arcade Fire lose Battle of the Bands; Deborah Ostrovsky frets over the sublime sophistication of the Plateaus French children. More recently, Ziya Jones spends a summer herding sheep through Parc du Pelican; Eva Crocker performs in a fake orgasm choir at the Rialto Theatre; and Andre Picard takes a pause from the pandemic by running up Mount Royal. Edited by Maisonneuve editor in chief Madi Haslam, these letters buzz with a sense of possibility, surprise, and transformation. They remind us that a city cant quite be defined, that every person inside it interprets it anew. Together, they explore how we make meaning in the place we call homehow our surroundings shape us, and how we shape them in return. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 2024
ISBN 10: 1550656384ISBN 13: 9781550656381
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Blackmail and murder in Old Quebec!Quebec City crime reporter Mary Roberts is about to leave her desk for the day when she receives word that a woman has been struck down in the centre of town. The victim is Rene e Brancourt. A former pin-up, she d once been a big star, treading the boards at the Come die-Franc aise, until her lover, Robert Marchand, plunged over Montmorency Falls. Rene e s inability to accept his death led her to be institutionalized. Now on her deathbed at the Ho tel-Dieu Hospital, the faded vedette tells Mary that Robert s death was no accident. She points an accusing finger at Albert Fre de ric, the most respected lawyer in the city, thus setting the young reporter on a trail that will ultimately imperil her own life.Whispering City began as a 1947 Canadian feature shot in both English and French (La Forteresse). Predating Alfred Hitchcock s I Confess by six years, it is the earliest film noir set in Canada. In his novelization, Horace Brown improves upon the film, altering the dialogue, shedding its weaknesses, providing backstory, and giving flesh to its characters. The result brings tension and is a much darker noir. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 2023
ISBN 10: 1550656104ISBN 13: 9781550656107
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Durable Goods is a book of a sharply imagined poems about everyday technology. Writing in the Dinggedicht or thing-poem tradition of poets like Rilke, Ponge, and Marianne Moore, James Pollock calls to surprising life everything from microwaves to kettles, sprinklers to umbrellas, with a precision both unerring and effortless. By conjuring the essential spirit of each object, the poet reveals the tools and appliances that surround us as both sympathetic reflections of ourselvesour fear, love, rage, hope, and griefand strange beings with inner lives of their own. It knows how much pressure youve been under, Pollock writes, of the barometer, that you could use a change of atmosphere. Read together, these poems immerse us in an imagined world with the power to make us see our own in a new way. Suffused with dazzling wordplay, razor wit, and rippling sonic effects, the poems richly reward being read aloud. Indeed, for Pollock, the most durable good is language itself. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 2023
ISBN 10: 1550656090ISBN 13: 9781550656091
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In his commanding poetry debut, Wolf Sonnets, R. P. LaRose Indigenizes the sonnet, undoing its classical constraints and retooling the form for current political circumstances. Packed with family lore, these poems reflect on how deeply we can trust the terms we use to construct our identity. A proud citizen of the Metis Nation, LaRose even questions his right to identify as such: I was made in someone else's home, he writes. Wolf Sonnets is verse obsessed with names, infinity, numbers, categories, and interconnectedness. Depicting his ancestors as wolvessymbols of survival and protectionLaRose bring fresh insight to his wider poetic project: castigating the inequality, greed, and racism inherent to colonialism. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 2023
ISBN 10: 1550656228ISBN 13: 9781550656220
Anbieter: Grand Eagle Retail, Wilmington, DE, USA
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A hard-knuckled look at the other half, this collection of lively poems mix a girl-about-town cockiness with an all-too-rare emotional honesty about men, love, and relationships. Whether the subject is a one-man chimney demolition, the lifelong fidelity of seahorses, a lover at war in Afghanistan, or a kickboxing match, Lahey confronts the enduring disconnect between the sexes in a language that is slangy and quick, punctuated with jabs. She eyes those moments in a day, in a life when the normal clues we rely on disappear, shifting the line between domesticity and danger. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 2023
ISBN 10: 1550656112ISBN 13: 9781550656114
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Author and radio personality Stanley Pean is a jazz scholar who takes us seamlessly and knowledgeably through the history of the music, stopping at a number of high points along the way. He gets behind the scenes with anecdotes that tell much about the misunderstandings that have surrounded the music. How could French existentialist writer Jean-Paul Sartre have mixed up Afro-Canadian songwriter Shelton Brooks with the Jewish-American belter Sophie Tucker? What is the real story behind the searing classic Strange Fruit made immortal by Billie Holiday, who at first balked at performing it? Who knew that an Ohio housewife named Sadie Vimmerstedt was behind the revenge song I wanna be around to pick up the pieces when somebody breaks your heart? And since this is jazz, there is no shortage of sad ends: Bix Beiderbecke, Chet Baker, Lee Morgan, to name a few. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 2023
ISBN 10: 1550656236ISBN 13: 9781550656237
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The Four-Doored House evokes two key women in Pierre Nepveu s life. First, his granddaughter Lily, who he imagines maturing into a complex world, haunted by her memory of him as he is haunted now by her projected self, navigating an era awash in uncertainty and unease. Imbued with both wonder and disquiet, it is an aging poet s celebration of childhood, as well as a meditation on his own future absence. There follows his celebration of C, the woman with whom Nepveu shares his nights and days. These are love poems dedicated to a companion who has aided him in finding "new phrases that reformulate the impossible. The culmination of a brilliant career, translated into fluent and thrilling English by Donald Winker, The Four-Doored House is Nepveu s most enduring work yet. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 2024
ISBN 10: 1550656325ISBN 13: 9781550656329
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. The past decade has seen a rise in documentaries, memoirs and podcasts that revisit the legacies of women wronged by pop culture. With movements like #MeToo and #TimesUp, challenging long-standing narratives around female celebrities, it s no surprise so many believe the representation of women in the media has improved. In her scathingly witty collection of essays, Girls, Interrupted, Lisa Whittington-Hill argues otherwise. Pop culture s treatment of women, writes Whittington-Hill, is still marked by misogyny and misunderstanding. From the gender bias in celebrity memoir coverage to problematic pop culture portrayals of middle-aged women and the sexist pressure on female pop stars to constantly reinvent themselves, Girls, Interrupted critically examines how mainstream media keeps failing women and explores what we can do to fix it. A work of searing relevance, this candid and often cathartic debut marks Whittington-Hill as a cultural critic of the first rank. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 2024
ISBN 10: 1550656341ISBN 13: 9781550656343
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A TONI DAMIANO MYSTERYTen years ago, the prestigious suburban community of Beaconsfield, Quebec was shaken by the discovery of the bodies of an ordinary couple in their home. What appeared to be a common murder-suicide husband kills wife and takes his own life has baffled two previous investigations. At one point, the son, who had a tumultuous relationship with his father, was considered a suspect. Lieutenant Detective Toni Damiano and her partner, Detective Pierre Matte, attached to the newly-created Cold Case Unit, have reopened the case with their usual confidence and grit. They are met with unexpected challenges and a reality they ve never had to face. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 2023
ISBN 10: 1550656201ISBN 13: 9781550656206
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Whether investigating a gruesome triple-murder, a fairy tale marriage gone horribly wrong, or a brilliant con artist, Michael Lista has proven himself one of the most gifted storytellers of his generation. In his belief that crime reporting thrives the closer it moves to the human scale where every uncovered secret reveals the truth of our obligations to each other Lista builds his compulsively readable narratives from details (fake flowers, a little girl s necklace) others might pass over, details that provide a doorway into the extreme situations he is drawn to. The Human Scale not only includes Lista s most celebrated magazine stories to date, but comes with postscripts that describe his process in writing each piece, and the fallout from publication. Here is long-form journalism in its most hallowed form: brilliant and bingeable. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 2023
ISBN 10: 1550656074ISBN 13: 9781550656077
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. In Whiteout: How Canada Cancels Blackness, his new and essential collection of essays, George Elliott Clarke exposes the various ways in which the Canadian imagination demonizes, excludes, and oppresses Blackness. Clarkes range is extraordinary: he canvasses African-Canadian writers who have tracked Black invisibility, highlights the racist bias of our true crime writing, reveals the whitewashing of African-Canadian perspectives in universities, and excoriates the political failure to reckon with the tragedy of Africville, the once-thriving, "Africadian" community whose last home was razed in 1970. For Clarke, Canadas relentless celebration of itself as a site of multicultural humanitarianism has blinded White leaders and citizens to the countrys many crimes, at home and abroad, thus blacking out the historical record. These essays yield an alternate history of Canada, a corrective revision that Clarke describes as inking words on snow, evanescent and ephemeral. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 2024
ISBN 10: 1550656392ISBN 13: 9781550656398
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. From the author of Modern Home Winemaking and Techniques in Home Winemaking, Daniel Pambianchi sThe Beginner s Guide to Making Wine from Juice and Grapes is for novices keen in making their own wine at home. It guides aspiring winemakers through the process, from crush to bottle, with step-by-step instructions using simple, modern techniques to craft consistently great wine. The book includes many illustrations, tables and examples to highlight the use of equipment and tools, and a comprehensive chapter dedicated to solving common winemaking problems. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.
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Verlag: Véhicule Press, Montreal, QC, 2010
ISBN 10: 1550652621ISBN 13: 9781550652628
Anbieter: Montreal Books, Westmount, QC, Kanada
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Soft cover. Zustand: Fine. Inscribed to previous owner and signed by the author. Book.
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Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montréal, QC, Canada, 1999
ISBN 10: 1550651196ISBN 13: 9781550651195
Anbieter: Bay Used Books, Sudbury, ON, Kanada
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Zustand: Very Good. Very good condition. Light wear. Binding tight, pages clean. Pictures available upon request. AP.
Verlag: Vehicule Press, Canada, Montreal, QC, 1987
ISBN 10: 0919890792ISBN 13: 9780919890794
Anbieter: WorldofBooks, Goring-By-Sea, WS, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Paperback. Zustand: Very Good. Set in the poorest Jewish ghettos of Lublin and Warsaw from 1912 to 1928, this is the story of lives scarred by desperate poverty yet abundantly rich in the wisdom of survival, as well as in love, courage, and humor. 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: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 1982
ISBN 10: 0919890393ISBN 13: 9780919890398
Anbieter: Werdz Quality Used Books, Winnipeg, MB, Kanada
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. Clean, tight, unmarked; gift inscription on false title page; otherwise very minimal wear; This volume presents a survey of Quebec Anglophone poetic activity cresting in the late 1970s and early 1980s. It contains a representative selection of some 70 poets active during the period.
Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 1991
ISBN 10: 1550650025ISBN 13: 9781550650020
Anbieter: Werdz Quality Used Books, Winnipeg, MB, Kanada
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Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. Clean, tight, unmarked; very light price sticker ghost on back cover; otherwise absolute minimal wear; appears unread; Three of the stories in this book concern American Indians, the remnants of proud and noble lines who lived along the Saint Lawrence River. One of the most valuable and entertaining aspects of de Gaspe's writing in his creative eye and ear, and his talent for describing events and encounters in a way that makes them live for us once more. These fireside tales were originally published posthumously in 1893. Jane Brierley's introduction and annotations provide fascinating insights into the life and times of one of the fathers of Canadian literature.
Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 1998
Anbieter: Westside Stories, Hamilton, ON, Kanada
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Soft cover. Zustand: As New. No Jacket. First Edition. Titanic: The Canadian Story. Signed by the author. This book is in 'as new' condition, with no visible signs of wear; all inserts are intact. *** Please note that some items may be heavy or oversize, and therefore may require an additional shipping cost; please contact the seller if you require a shipping estimate on the item before purchase. ***. Signed by Author(s).
Verlag: Véhicule Press, Montreal, QC, 2015
ISBN 10: 1550653970ISBN 13: 9781550653977
Anbieter: Werdz Quality Used Books, Winnipeg, MB, Kanada
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. INSCRIPTION FROM ANDY on title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; absolute minimal wear; appears unread; The story of Henry Moss, a homosexual everyman whose life knows none of the limitations or abuses his predecessors experienced. Inscribed by Author(s).
Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, Canada, 1977
ISBN 10: 0919890083ISBN 13: 9780919890084
Anbieter: Test Centre Books, Norwich, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Soft cover. Zustand: Very Good. First Edition. Squarish 16mo. Stapled wrappers. 20pp. Staples rusty, the spine head with a tiny chip (probably in production), otherwise very nice. This copy has been signed by the author and inscribed to Al(len Fisher) 'and his dustbins'. Signed by Author(s).
Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 2022
ISBN 10: 1550655833ISBN 13: 9781550655834
Anbieter: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australien
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Born in 1968 in The Hague, Erik Lindner is one of the Netherlands most acclaimed poets. Admired for a style that fuses simplicity with strangeness, Lindner builds his poems through a montage of descriptive images that, by fending off closure, generate extraordinary visionary power. Gathering together new work with a selection from his previous six collections, Words are the Worst offers a range of pleasures that have made him celebrated in his home country: an austere eloquence; a hard, unsparing precision; a restless and idiosyncratic eye. Best of all is how his intensely filmic observations transform haunted landscapes of windmills, birds, dogs, and houseboats on canals into, as one critic put it, Lindner-like moments. Brilliantly translated by Francis R. Jones, with an introduction by Canadian poet David OMeara, Words are the Worst introduces a leading Dutch voice to English readers. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 2022
ISBN 10: 1550655817ISBN 13: 9781550655810
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Antonyms for Daughter, Jenny Boychuks poetry debut, addresses a harrowing subject: the loss of the poets mother to addiction. Deploying a range of forms and techniques astonishing in a first collection, Boychuk creates unsparing scenes of their complicated life together. Poem after poem attempts to wring clarity from memories ripe with trauma and love, as Boychuk questions whether it is possible for a child to ever extricate herself from an abusive parentto become, as it were, a living antonym of a painful family legacy. A booklength loss-lyric of vivid beauty, Antonyms for Daughter is a singular example of grief transformed into art. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 1994
ISBN 10: 1550650572ISBN 13: 9781550650570
Anbieter: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australien
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. 1995 Winner of the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, this hilarious view of the 90s pokes fun at fat cats, bureaucrats, sign laws, snowstorms, second-hand steak fumes, quiet Canadians, noisy Americans, and other fax of Canadian life. Winner of the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour, this work is a funny view of the 90s that pokes fun at fat cats, bureaucrats, sign laws, snowstorms, second-hand steak fumes, quiet Canadians, noisy Americans, and other fax of Canadian life. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 2022
ISBN 10: 1550655779ISBN 13: 9781550655773
Anbieter: AussieBookSeller, Truganina, VIC, Australien
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. A fusion of biography and history, art and politics, told through the lives branching off one family tree.In Fear the Mirror, Cora SirE brings together thirteen stories of moments that have marked the dark intersections within her own history. A feminist mother who fled Estonia. A father who arrived in Canada with nothing but a violin. A Catalan boy whose parent is dying. A love triangle among novelists. Bodies stolen in the night and never found. Blending essay, memoir, and fiction, the MontrEal author draws on her encounters in Latin America and elsewhere to compose loving and conflicted portraitsof family members, writers, filmmakers, and gravediggersculminating in the persistent legacies and strange alchemies that haunt the person she sees in the mirror. In this masterful fifth book, SirE has written her most urgent, beguiling, and personal work to date. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 2010
ISBN 10: 1550652605ISBN 13: 9781550652604
Anbieter: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Presented in its original pocketbook format, this entertaining account documents the 1950s nightlife of Canada's second largest city. Based on the original chronicle from the era, this overview's spirited prose complements a vast collection of archival photographs, vividly depicting the people and places of Montreal's underbelly. From glamorous cabarets and lush restaurants to late-night bars and memorable characters, this exploration demonstrates why this city has been named one of the most colorful communities on the continent. Documents the 1950s nightlife of Montreal, Canada's second largest city. This title demonstrates why this city has been named one of the most colorful communities on the continent. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 2011
ISBN 10: 1550652974ISBN 13: 9781550652970
Anbieter: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Updated with new locales and the most current information, this French companion volume to Montreal's Best BYOB Restaurants 2009-2010 provides a complete guide to 60 spots where food lovers of all types can bring their own potables. From French and African foods to South American and Greek dishes, this compendium reflects the diversity and quality of a city where good food is respected--and expected--and proves indispensable for budget-minded natives and visitors alike. Indexes by type of cuisine and neighborhood as well as information on hours of operation, credit cards, and wheelchair access are included. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 2020
ISBN 10: 155065537XISBN 13: 9781550655377
Anbieter: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. From Montreal's metro stations and streets to pastoral mise-en-scenes, William Vallieres' first book, Versus, is a lyric bildungsroman filled with portraits of seduction and infatuation, loneliness and buried shame. What yesterday had fought to bud / Is stunted under ice today. These are darkly canny poems about childhood, familial histories, lost love and the weariness of spending one's being being / Everything I'm against. Deftly crafted, intense and compact, with barbed insights arrived at through verbal twists and syntactic half-turns, Vallieres' voice is entirely his own. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 2000
ISBN 10: 1550651382ISBN 13: 9781550651386
Anbieter: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Rana Bose's first novel begins in a comfortable Calcutta neighbourhood where the sons and daughters of the well-to-do have perfected the art of transforming themselves into street urchins. After school and at night, mostly on the threshold of adolescence, they eagerly mix with fascinating visitors from the edge of town who carry the seeds of Calcutta's legendary social unrest. Their political activity takes place in the carnival atmosphere of the city's streets and markets, until a bloody political clash turns them into adults before their time. And while they inevitably grow up and grow apart, their lives remain inextricably linked by the carnage and cover-up they were powerless to do anything but witness. Rude, a young rebel with a cause, keeps a diary which is confiscated by a corrupt anti-terrorist police officer. Twenty years later, Nina, who might have loved Rude, decides at all costs to recover the diary and the history that was stolen from them. Set mainly in Calcutta, Houston, and briefly in Montreal, Rana Bose deftly introduces us to a cast of characters who bristle with life. Humour and despair intertwine like strands of DNA--until the human condition is laid bare and 'recovery' is finally complete. In the late sixties, in a comfortable Calcutta neighborhood, the restless sons and daughters of the well-to-do mix with activists and characters who carry the seeds of Calcutta's legendary social unrest. Their political activity takes place in the carnival atmosphere of the city's streets and markets until a bloody political clash turns them into adults before their time. Rana Bose sets his first novel in his native Calcutta, Houston, and Montreal. The story revolves around Rude and his diary, confiscated by the Calcutta police in 1970, but retrieved by a friend twenty years later. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.
Verlag: Vehicule Press, Montreal, QC, 2016
ISBN 10: 1550654411ISBN 13: 9781550654417
Anbieter: CitiRetail, Stevenage, Vereinigtes Königreich
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Paperback. Zustand: new. Paperback. Austrian aristocrat Franz Loebek lands in Canada penniless, having lost everything in the violent upheavals brought by the Second World War. In Montreal he finds the Old World sophistication of London and Paris mixed with the youthful vibrancy of New York. But Loebek's adopted city is an open city, and he unwillingly becomes drawn into the violent underworld of illegal gambling, all the while maintaining a front as he moves amongst Montreal's most privileged. Gambling with Fire is the story of one man's struggle to navigate illicit and dangerous waters to finally find stability and peace. Originally published in 1969, it followed The Crime on Cote des Neiges , Murder Over Dorval , and The Body on Mount Royal as David Montrose's fourth and final novel. The author died while it was in production. This Ricochet Books edition, the first in forty-seven years, marks its paperback debut. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.