The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories - I'm Dreaming of Rocket Richard, The Only Daughter, Night Travellers, King of the Raft, The Search for Petula Clark, The Man from Mars, As Birds Bring Forth the Sun, The Painted Door, Scenes, Dreams +
by Ondaatje, Michael (ed) Alice Munro, Carol Shields, Timothy Findley, Leon Rooke, Sean Virgo, Rudy Wiebe, Glenn Gould, Gabrielle Roy, Margaret Atwood, Ethel Wilson, Mordecai Richler, Jack Hodgins, Sheila Watson, Mavis Gallant, Alistair Macleod, W. Stegner +
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0571142753
- ISBN 13
- 9780571142750
- Seller
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Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
London: Faber & Faber, 1990. -----Black cloth with gilt, headband, (xviii) 714 pages, dust jacket is in Very Good condition with minor edge wear. Contents ilnclude: The Man from Mars by Margaret Atwood / The Rain Child by Margaret Laurence / Antigone by Sheila Watson / The Watcher by Guy Vanderhaeghe / Be Fruitful and Multiply by Madeleine Ferron / I'm Dreaming of Rocket Richard by Clark Baise / As Birds Bring Forth the Sun by Alistsair Macleod / The Well of Dunrea by Gabrielle Roy / The Medicine Line by Wallace Stegner / Bring Forth a Wonder by Gerge Bowering / (from) The First Garden by Anne Hebert / The Boys' Own Annual by Margaret Atwood / My Grandfather's House by Charles Ritchie / The Halifax Explosion by Hugh Maclennan / The Painted Door by Sinclair Ross / (from) Swamp Angel by Ethel Wilson / Spring and Summer by Alice French / Chronicle of Anse Saiint-Roch by Jacques Ferron / The Lake by Joe Rosenblatt / (from) Blood Ties by David Adams Richards / The Accident by Joyce Marshall / Some Grist for Mervyn's Mill by Mordecai Richler / The Concert Stages of Europe by Jack Hodgins / Leaving This Island Place by Austin Clrke / The Sins of Tomas Benares by Matt Cohen / An Intimate Death by Marie-Claire Blais / Ghosts at Jarry by Hugh Hood / The Moslem Wife by Mavis Gallant / Roget's Theasaurus by Keath Fraser / The Search for Petula Clark by Glenn Gould / The Naming of Albert Johnson by Rudy Wiebe / King of th Raft by Daniel David Moses / Kill Day on the Government Wharf by Audrey Thomas / Arkendale by Sean Virgo / Night Travellers by Sandra Birdsell / (from) By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept by Elizabeth Smart / The Only Daughter by Leon Rooke / Photograph by Dionee Brand / Condolence Visit by Rohinton Mistry / Foreigners by Elisabeth Harvor / Dreams by Timothy Findley / (from) Obasan by Joy Kogawa / We Are All in the Ojibway Circle by John Kelly / The History of Cambodia by Keath Fraser / The Management of Grief by Bharati Mukherjee / Scenes by Carol Shields / Miles City, Montana by Alice Munro / L'envoi. The Train to Mariposa by Stephen Leacock / The Closing Down of Summer by Alistair Macleod / notes on contributors. The scan you see is the book you buy. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. Illus. by Keith Bowen. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾".
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- Bookseller
- Nessa Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008023
- Title
- The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories - I'm Dreaming of Rocket Richard, The Only Daughter, Night Travellers, King of the Raft, The Search for Petula Clark, The Man from Mars, As Birds Bring Forth the Sun, The Painted Door, Scenes, Dreams +
- Author
- Ondaatje, Michael (ed) Alice Munro, Carol Shields, Timothy Findley, Leon Rooke, Sean Virgo, Rudy Wiebe, Glenn Gould, Gabrielle Roy, Margaret Atwood, Ethel Wilson, Mordecai Richler, Jack Hodgins, Sheila Watson, Mavis Gallant, Alistair Macleod, W. Stegner +
- Illustrator
- Keith Bowen
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0571142753
- ISBN 13
- 9780571142750
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- FICTION_SHORT STORIES (single author) Ondaatje, Michael (ed) The Faber Book of Contemporary Canadian Short Stories Keith Bowen Faber & Faber -----Black cloth with gilt, headband, (xviii) 714 pages, dust jacket is in Very Good condition with minor
- Bookseller catalogs
- Fiction; Canadiana;
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾"
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