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Bow Grip: A Novel Paperback - 2007
by Ivan Coyote
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Details
- Title Bow Grip: A Novel
- Author Ivan Coyote
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very good
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Arsenal Pulp Press, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Publication date April 2007
- Bookseller's Inventory # 2BB-05-3263
- ISBN 9781551522135 / 1551522136
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 8.42 x 5.77 x 0.55 in (21.39 x 14.66 x 1.40 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Lesbian
- Category Fiction - General
- Library of Congress subjects Psychological fiction, Divorced men
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
- Quantity available 1
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Summary
Ivan E. Coyote is acclaimed as one of North America's most beguiling storytellers; Ivan's honest, down-to-earth tales, many of which are based on personal experience, are compelling for their simple human truths. Her 2005 story collection, Loose End, was also shortlisted for the prestigious Ferro-Grumley Award for Women's Fiction. Bow Grip, Ivan's long-awaited first novel, is a breathtaking story about love and loneliness, and the long road one must travel between them. Joey is a good-hearted, fortysomething mechanic from small-town Alberta whose wife has recently left him for another woman. When a stranger named James approaches his shop and agrees to purchase a beat-up blue Volvo in exchange for a beautiful, hand-crafted cello, Joey sees it as an opportunity to finally make some overdue changes in his life. But some troubling suspicions about James, and a desire to close the door on his failed marriage, compels Joey to hit the road and travel to Calgary, the big city by the Bow River. He stations himself at a rundown motel, where he struggles to learn how to play the cello, and strangers with their own complicated pasts--an older gay man, a single mother--become confidants. With quiet authority, Bow Grip is about one man's real rite of passage--trying to keep the ghosts of personal history at bay with a heart that's as big as the endless prairie sky.
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Citations
- Booklist, 03/15/2007, Page 23
- Quill & Quire, 12/01/2006, Page 32
