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Fiction. THE BOX breaks with the conventional genre of short stories, weaving together biography, autobiography, parable, and drama. Here is fourteen-year old Drew, transplanted from the coast to the Okanagan, and working at his first summer job picking prunes for the town MILF. Here, too, is the extraordinary tale of minor-league pitcher Bunny Watson who strings together an amazing twenty wins without a loss. Bowering trades witty barbs with the poet Phyllis Webb in the experimental story Phyllis's Questions, while the title story The Box explores romantic and platonic relationships as the characters play with the art of opening a box. At times cerebral, THE BOX is always playful, clever, and entertaining.

About the Author :
George Bowering taught English at Simon Fraser University from 1972 until his retirement in 2001. Canada's first Poet Laureate, he is an Officer of both the Order of Canada and the Order of British Columbia. He was one of the founders of the poetry publication Tish, served as and has received two Governor General's awards: the first, for poetry, in 1969 for The Gangs of Kosmos and Rocky Mountain Foot and the second, in 1980, for Burning Water, reissued by New Star in 2007. Bowering is well-known for his love of baseball, about which he has also written. He is the author of nine novels, five books of short stories, and numerous volumes of poetry, including Autobiology (New Star, 1972). Bowering has said he writes about history because it is so damned interesting. In September, he trekked to New York to watch the Yankees play their final series at Yankee Stadium.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781554200450
  • Publisher: New Star Books
  • Publisher Imprint: New Star Books
  • Height: 206 mm
  • No of Pages: 192
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 145 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1554200458
  • Publisher Date: 15 Oct 2009
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 249 gr


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