The anecdotes, extended scenes and burgeoning imagination that make up these stories are tightly composed and sharply focused. The book manages to be both harsh and sympathetic. It welds humour, tragedy and the personal embarrassments we all live through in a colourful and memorable way.
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- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C813/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- ISBN
- 0889841861 9781123243864
- LCCN
- PR9199.3.S51764
- LCCN Item number
- B88 1997eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOTU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (232 p.)
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- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)slc00232833 (OCoLC)794671483 (CaOOCEL)446277
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOTU
Table of Contents
- Bu ying on Time 3
- None of this is true all of this is true 7
- Co nte nts 9
- Going Nat ive 11
- Life 12
- The Coat 25
- Libiamo 26
- The Bells of Saint Mar ys Boys Tow n 31
- The Man Who Rea d Voltaire 39
- Bu ying on Time 57
- Gumbo Campbe lls 58
- Shale 73
- Smoke 105
- The Crystal Pala ce 123
- Al l Boys in Cana da Play Hocke y 139
- The Fig ht 149
- Romeo and Julie t 153
- Cant won t 155
- Playboy 156
- Al ley Oop 158
- The Main Drag 163
- Pe nance 183
- Ne w Shocks 199
- Te mpus Fug it 209
- We Te mpus fug it te mpus fug it lingua franca 210
- Te mpus fug it 212
- Hamle t 214
- The Ant igonish Rev iew Jo urney Prize Antholog y Matr ix Me tme nys 224
- Paris Voic es Descant Dinne r at the End of the Wor ld Buying On Time Dreaming Home Canadian Shor t St ories Pe nguin Antholog y of Canadian Humour. Woman in Bronze Unde rground Glob e and Mail 225
