Blackstrap Hawco
Blackstrap Hawco

Author: Kenneth J. Harvey

Publisher: Random House Canada

Published: 2009-02-24

Total Pages: 850

ISBN-13: 0307371603

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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.

Revolutions
Revolutions

Author: Alex Good

Publisher: Biblioasis

Published: 2017-03-14

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 1771961201

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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.

Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 2008
Canadian Annual Review of Politics and Public Affairs 2008

Author: David Mutimer

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2015-01-15

Total Pages: 329

ISBN-13: 1442620226

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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.

Book Review Index - 2009 Cumulation
Book Review Index - 2009 Cumulation

Author: Dana Ferguson

Publisher: Book Review Index Cumulation

Published: 2009-08

Total Pages: 1304

ISBN-13: 9781414419121

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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.

Shack
Shack

Author: Kenneth J. Harvey

Publisher: Mercury Press (Canada)

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 164

ISBN-13:

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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.