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The stories that are great within us  Cover Image Book Book

The stories that are great within us / editor, Barry Callaghan ; introduction by Matt Shaw.

Callaghan, Barry, (editor.).

Summary:

With a diverse range of content, the book focuses on the stories that have taken [Toronto], in just six decades, from a narrow wryly praised as a city of churches to a brassy, gauche, imposing metropolis that is the fourth largest in North America.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781550963601 (pbk.) :
  • Physical Description: xx, 404 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Holstein, Ontario : Exile Editions, 2013.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:
The sphinx in Toronto / Ludwig Zeller -- Shoreside / Gwendolyn MacEwen -- King Leary / Paul Quarrington -- The black queen / Barry Callaghan -- August 7, 1921 / Steven Hayward -- Galaxie / Austin Clarke -- Last spring they came over / Morley Callaghan -- The stallion and the Sultan of Swat -- A true story / Bruce Meyer -- The Minnies / Gwendolyn MacEwen -- The wars / Timothy Findley -- Matchbook for a mother's hair / Matt Shaw -- The cure / Mazo de la Roche -- The Immaculate Conception photography gallery / Katherine Govier -- The tower / Gwendolyn MacEwen -- Ariadne / R. Murray Schafer -- Painted tongue / Joseph Boyden -- Global village / Sorel Etrog -- Go,go,go on / Joe Fiorito -- In the skin of a lion / Michael Ondaatje -- Early morning / Alice Boissonneau -- Stormed by sunlight / Joe Rosenblatt -- Once near water / Vera Frenkel --
After dinner butterflies / Matt Cohen -- At the Lisbon Plate / Dionne Brand -- Our thirteenth summer / Barry Callaghan -- The ringer / Max Haines -- Epona at her mirror / Ludwig Zeller -- Strange fugitive / Morley Callaghan -- The man from Mars / Margaret Atwood -- Cabbagetown / Hugh Garner -- Shadows / Alice Boissonneau -- Family,1970 / Chales Pachter -- What's bred in the bone / Robertson Davies -- How should a person be? Sheila Heti -- We so seldom look on love / Barbara Gowdy -- A sick call / Morley Callaghan -- Dancing / Gwendolyn MacEwen -- Walking woman / Michael Snow -- The victory burlesk / Margaret Atwood -- Skin, just / Christine Miscione -- Dead ringers / David Cronenberg & Norman Snider -- Blazing figures / Robert Markle -- Chestnuts / Joe Fiorito -- Sociology / Katherine Govier --
The grinder / Gwendolyn MacEwen -- Lost dogs / Lisa Foad -- Keys / Jow Fiorito -- The noise of time / B. W. Powe -- The blues / bp Nichol -- Love Street / Susan Perly -- Mercy Mister Percy / M.T. Kelly -- 1956: Glenn Gould and Thelonious Sphere Monk / Susan Perly -- The artists jazz band / John Reeves -- Eating the birds / Margaret Atwood -- What happened to Ravel's Bolero? / Helen Weinzweig -- Eugenia / Sarah Sheard -- The Danforth / Gwendolyn MacEwen -- Fugitive pieces / Anne Michaels -- The Bloor Street viaduct / Joe Fiorito -- The real deal / Nina Burjevac -- Winter / Alice Boissonneau -- Oxtails with mushrooms and rice/ Austin Clarke -- When John Lennon died / Sang Kim --
The art of cooking and serving / Margaret Atwood -- Dingles / Alice Boissonneau -- The chiseller / Morley Callaghan -- Impossible Toronto / H.Masud Taj -- What to wear / Greg Keaney -- Hitting the charts / Leon Rooke -- Crow Jane's blues / Barry Gallaghan - Lovers / Ludwig Zeller -- Mrs. Putnam at the planetarium / Janice Kulyk Keefer -- Nightchild / Gwendolyn MacEwen -- A game of inches / Linda Griffiths -- Dream chamber / Sorel Etrog -- They never told me / Austin Clarke -- Natasha / David Bezmozgis -- Grief / Elizabeth Phinney.
Subject: Short stories, Canadian (English)
Toronto (Ont.) > Fiction.

Available copies

  • 1 of 1 copy available at Camosun College Library.

Holds

  • 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Circulation Modifier Holdable? Status Due Date Courses
Lansdowne Library PS 8323 T67 S77 2013 (Text) 26040003075427 Main Collection Volume hold Available -


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