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  • The Order of Good Cheer

    de Bill Gaston ...
    Indian summer, 1607. Intrepid explorer and map-maker Samuel de Champlain has founded a new and precarious settlement in Annapolis Royal, New France (present-day Nova Scotia). As winter looms, two threats emerge: boredom amongst the men and the deadly sickness scurvy. Champlain hits upon the idea of a moveable feast -- an order of "good cheer" -- where nobles and men can enjoy good local food, ... Leer más

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  • The Good Body

    de Bill Gaston ...
    The Good Body is a triumphant blend of mordant humour and heartbreak. It tells the comic and poignant story of a retired pro-hockey ruffian named Bobby Bonaduce who is stubbornly ignoring a disease - multiple sclerosis - that may be killing him. Bobby returns to his hometown and scams his way into university in a misguided attempt to redeem his messy past and lay emotional claim to a son he ... Leer más

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  • A Mariner's Guide to Self Sabotage

    Stories

    de Bill Gaston ...
    "In this new collection Gaston's range is so wide, his technique so masterful, his tenderness, humour and intelligence so finely measured that he stops my heart."--Barbara GowdyA Mariner's Guide to Self Sabotage is populated by the lonely and alienated, holders of secrets, members (or would-be members) of shadowy organizations, screw-ups, joyriders and runaways.Architects of their own destruction, ... Leer más

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  • Gargoyles

    de Bill Gaston ...
    Here is the best of Bill Gaston's stories since the publication of his Giller Prize nominated collection, Mount Appetite (2002). In this extraordinary work, Gaston crafts his fiction around the idea of the gargoyle -- the concrete representation of extremes of human emotions. In Gaston's marvellous, riotous, Rabelaisian world, Gargoyles are physical manifestations of the disfigurements and ... Leer más

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  • Juliet Was a Surprise

    de Bill Gaston ...
    Bill Gaston’s characteristic keen insight and wit dazzle in this new collection. Here, we see the world through the prism of unfamiliar perspectives: a bank executive whose excellent sex life might in fact be killing her, an amorous tree surgeon better attuned to the values of his “patients” than to other people, a vacationing schizophrenic wary of his housemates, a pizza-delivery boy convinced he ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The World

    de Bill Gaston ...
    Weaving together five heartbreaking stories, Bill Gaston transforms the cruelty of life into something not only beautiful but heartwarming. A recently divorced, early retiree accidentally burns down his house on the day he pays off the mortgage, only to discover that for the first time in his life he’s forgotten to pay a bill: his insurance premium. An old friend of his, a middle-aged musician, ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

  • Just Let Me Look at You

    On Fatherhood

    de Bill Gaston ...
    **Shortlisted for the 2019 RBC Taylor PrizeShortlisted for the 2019 BC Book Prize - Hubert Evans Non-Fiction PrizeShortlisted for the 2019 BC Book Prize - Roderick Haig-Brown Regional PrizeFrom Giller-nominated, award-winning Bill Gaston, a tender, wry, and unforgettable memoir about alcohol, fishing, and all the things fathers and sons won't say to each other**Sons clash with fathers, sons find ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • Spying on America

    de Bill Gaston ...
    On a June morning in 2022, Bill Gaston drives off the Victoria–Port Angeles ferry in a rented Dodge Charger with his two sons. Born in the USA but “Canadian through and through,” Gaston is on a road trip to Tabor, Iowa, the town founded by his great, great, great-grandparents as the westernmost hub of the Underground Railroad.The Gastons’ eleven-day trip to Tabor and back takes them up and down ... Leer más

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  • Sabordages

    de Gaston Bill ...
    Traducido por Ivan Steenhout ...
    Dans une suite de scènes et d’épisodes éblouissants, les histoires de ce recueil naviguent entre l’humour et l’émotion, entre l’étonnement et l’absurde, et nous transportent d’une plage mexicaine à un village perdu de l’Amérique profonde, d’un party de bureau à la cérémonie d’une secte religieuse, d’une ferme d’élevage du saumon de la Côte-Ouest à une boîte de jazz en Australie, d’un restaurant ... Leer más

    $16.99 USD

  • Audiolibro

    Just Let Me Look at You

    On Fatherhood

    de Bill Gaston ...
    Narrado por Bill Gaston ...

    Completo

    10 hora 47 minutos

    **Shortlisted for the 2019 RBC Taylor PrizeShortlisted for the 2019 BC Book Prize - Hubert Evans Non-Fiction PrizeShortlisted for the 2019 BC Book Prize - Roderick Haig-Brown Regional PrizeFrom Giller-nominated, award-winning Bill Gaston, a tender, wry, and unforgettable memoir about alcohol, fishing, and all the things fathers and sons won't say to each other**Sons clash with fathers, sons find ... Leer más

    $19.99 USD

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    #1 National BestsellerFinalist, CBC Canada ReadsFinalist, Scotiabank Giller PrizeBy turns savage, biting, funny, poetic, and heartbreaking, Megan Gail Coles’s debut novel rips into the inner lives of a wicked cast of characters, exposing class, gender, and racial tensions over the course of one Valentine’s Day in the dead of a winter storm.Valentine’s Day, the longest day of the year.A fierce ... Leer más

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