Blackstrap Hawco

Author : Kenneth J. Harvey
Publisher : Random House Canada
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307371607

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Blackstrap Hawco by Kenneth J. Harvey Pdf

Fifteen years in the making, this book is the one Canada’s “heavyweight champ of brash and beautiful literature” was meant to write. An epic masterwork about Newfoundland’s working class, Blackstrap Hawco spans more than a century in gorgeous and widely varied prose, reminding us that even when writing about the degradation of identity and language, Harvey does it magnificently. Named in a moment of anger, Blackstrap Hawco is heir to an island dominion picked over by its adoptive nation. From the arrivals of the indentured Irish to the Victorian drawing rooms of the English merchants, from the perilous seal hunt to the raucous iron ore mines, from a notorious disaster at sea to the relocation of outport communities, the family legend might be all his people have left to live for. But as Blackstrap Hawco – a novel that will consume you in its dazzling swirl of voices, legends and beautiful hearsay – testifies, a story this haunting, this powerful, might just be enough.

Author : Kenneth Harvey
Publisher : Vintage Books Canada
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06
Category : Families
ISBN : 0099488779

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Blackstrap Hawco by Kenneth Harvey Pdf

Named in a moment of anger, raised to endure the tragedy of a people, Blackstrap Hawco was born with little more than a body and spirit that refuse to give up, and the menacing strength of pride.It has always been this way for the Hawco's of Newfoundland, but as the end of the twentieth century nears, the family's bloodlines have grown tainted and confused. Their story - a dazzling swirl of voices and legends spanning poverty, riches, violence and disaster - may be all they have left. But a story this haunting, this powerful, might just be enough to save them all.

Author : Alex Good
Publisher : Biblioasis
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781771961202

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Revolutions by Alex Good Pdf

Revolutions is the first book-length critical survey of twenty-first-century Canadian fiction, with in-depth essays examining subjects such as the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the effects of the digital revolution, and the dark legacy of what has come to be know as the Canadian literary establishment. Throughout, close reading is given to many contemporary authors, with particular attention paid to such central figures as Douglas Coupland and David Adams Richards. Alex Good explains and contextualizes this period in Canadian fiction for the general reader, providing a much-needed critical re-assessment of Canadian writing in the new millennium. By offering a contrary yet thoughtful position to that taken by our nation’s most prominent literary tastemakers, Good offers a vigorous commentary on the state of Canadian literature—where we are and how we got here.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 602 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Book industries and trade
ISBN : NWU:35556038763397

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Quill & Quire by Anonim Pdf

Author : David Mutimer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2015-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442620223

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Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 2008 by David Mutimer Pdf

The Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs is an acclaimed series that offers informed commentary on important national events and considers their significance in local and international contexts. This latest instalment reviews one of the most dramatic years in recent Canadian political history. While the country seemed solid both politically and economically at the beginning of 2008, by late summer trouble in the financial markets left banks and other financial institutions around the world on the brink of collapse. As the situation unfolded, Prime Minister Harper violated the spirit of his fixed election law and called a snap election, sensing the prospect of a Conservative majority. When the election returned another minority, Canada was plunged into a constitutional crisis that rivalled, if not surpassed, the King-Byng affair of 1926. The 2008 volume of the Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs covers both these crises, as well as foreign, provincial, First Nations, and municipal affairs.

Author : Kenneth J. Harvey
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781554889228

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Reinventing the Rose by Kenneth J. Harvey Pdf

As a fatherless girl with a mother who persistently encouraged her daughter’s artistic temperament, Anna Wells is highly sensitive to the life developing in her when she discovers she is pregnant. Anna’s gynecologist boyfriend, Kevin, considers the time just not right to have children, so Anna moves to a 100-year-old house in Bareneed, an abandoned cove in Newfoundland, where she takes comfort in renovating the interior of her new home and working on a series of paintings detailing roses. Paralleling Anna’s own journey is a minutely detailed, day-by-day development of the embryo. All goes well until a car arrives delivering a court summons. Kevin has filed a statement of claim seeking the termination of the embryo as "return of property." One night, while still in Bareneed and upset over the impending legal action, Anna discovers an abandoned little girl almost frozen to death in her front yard. Mysterious circumstances continue to surround the children in Bareneed as pro-choice and pro-life factions marshal their forces.

Author : Kenneth J. Harvey
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-06
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781459702448

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Reinventing the Rose by Kenneth J. Harvey Pdf

As a fatherless girl with a mother who persistently encouraged her daughter’s artistic temperament, Anna Wells is highly sensitive to the life developing in her when she discovers she is pregnant. Anna’s gynecologist boyfriend, Kevin, considers the time just not right to have children, so Anna moves to a 100-year-old house in Bareneed, an abandoned cove in Newfoundland, where she takes comfort in renovating the interior of her new home and working on a series of paintings detailing roses. Paralleling Anna’s own journey is a minutely detailed, day-by-day development of the embryo. All goes well until a car arrives delivering a court summons. Kevin has filed a statement of claim seeking the termination of the embryo as "return of property." One night, while still in Bareneed and upset over the impending legal action, Anna discovers an abandoned little girl almost frozen to death in her front yard. Mysterious circumstances continue to surround the children in Bareneed as pro-choice and pro-life factions marshal their forces.

Author : Kenneth J. Harvey
Publisher : Mercury Press (Canada)
Page : 164 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : STANFORD:36105121809680

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Shack by Kenneth J. Harvey Pdf

From the author ofThe Town That Forgot How to Breathe, these are dark stories about the people and ghosts that haunt rural Newfoundland. Rich with legends, personal drama, humour and striking characters, the thirteen, award-winning short stories in Shack feature Harvey’s distinctive landscape of Cutland Junction, a place centred in the woods where characters live an inland way of life rarely witnessed in Newfoundland fiction. Whether dealing with ghosts, loners, tragedy, or traditional lore, Harvey captures the people of Cutland Junction with passion, wit and care.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Authors, Canadian
ISBN : STANFORD:36105026055868

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Who's who in Canadian Literature by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Electronic
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211408831

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Book Review Digest by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 690 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Authors, American
ISBN : UCSD:31822037943222

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The Writers Directory by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Canadian literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105024321155

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Canadian Literary Periodicals Index by Anonim Pdf

Author : Arthur James Wells
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1922 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Bibliography, National
ISBN : STANFORD:36105211722678

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The British National Bibliography by Arthur James Wells Pdf

Author : Eve Mills Nash,Kenneth J. Harvey
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2002-07-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781770707245

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Little White Squaw by Eve Mills Nash,Kenneth J. Harvey Pdf

I was only six when I suspected my skin might be the wrong colour... Born female on the wrong side of the tracks, Eve Mills Nash, with the help of co-author Kenneth J. Harvey, tells a hard-hitting tale of a lifelong fascination with men of a darker hue. From early childhood, Nash knew it was "something to do with what was inside the bottles" that encouraged the groping male fingers that casually abused her during her parents’ drunken parties. She soon discovered that the wine remnants in the revellers’ discarded cups would numb her pain. Nash’s fortuneteller grandmother predicted a future of violence for her, starting as a teenager with her marriage to first husband Stan, an Ontario Mohawk. What Nash’s grandmother didn’t prophesize was the drunken binges and revolving door of unstable partners that traumatized her children, left her suicidal, and convinced her she was a failure as a mother after her eldest daughter became a cocaine addict. Harrowing yet life-affirming, this blistering account of life on the cusp of New Brunswick’s Native community sees the Little White Squaw and her children balance precariously between two seemingly irreconcilable cultures and colours.

Author : Dana Ferguson
Publisher : Book Review Index Cumulation
Page : 1304 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2009-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1414419120

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Book Review Index - 2009 Cumulation by Dana Ferguson Pdf

Book Review Index provides quick access to reviews of books, periodicals, books on tape and electronic media representing a wide range of popular, academic and professional interests. The up-to-date coverage, wide scope and inclusion of citations for both newly published and older materials make Book Review Index an exceptionally useful reference tool. More than 600 publications are indexed, including journals and national general interest publications and newspapers. Book Review Index is available in a three-issue subscription covering the current year or as an annual cumulation covering the past year.