John Metcalf

• Jan-1977
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These tales reveal Metcalf’s concern with the shifting notions of identity as it is grasped by children, adolescents, and young men. Metcalf’s first book contains many of the widely anthologized stories which continue to draw readers to t...

• Feb-1986
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When Kicking Against the Pricks was published in 1982, readers across Canada were angered, surprised, titillated, and gratified. Finally, a major Canadian author had spoken his mind about Canadian literature and its writers, and actually named names....

• Jan-1990
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• May-1992
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• Aug-1993
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• Sep-1996
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`The Porcupine's Quill Reader celebrates and promotes the work of a small publishing house in the village of Erin, Ontario. The fact that authors published here have had four Governor General Award nominations in four years suggest that editor Joh...

• Jun-1998
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• Nov-2002
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This collection of writing by eight of Canada's best contemporary story writers is presented in tandem with critical essays immediately following each story. It includes short fiction by Mavis Gallant, Hugh Hood, Alice Munro, Leon Rooke, and Clark Bl...

• Nov-2003
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Talks about the ways in which almost all the writers work out what it means to be Canadian writers. Michael Winter discusses having to leave Newfoundland in order to be able to write about it; Steven Heighton relates how his travels through Canada, a...

• Jan-2004
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John Metcalf is widely considered one of Canada's best writers. Standing Stones: The Best Stories of John Metcalf brings together three remarkable novellas and five critically acclaimed short stories.

The Washington Post has called his tale...

• Oct-2007
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First published in 1972, Going Down Slow is an intense and very funny novel about one mans attempt to maintain his sanity, and his sense of humour, in the face of mounting odds. Metcalf's young hero, David Appleby, a young school teacher just over fr...

• Oct-2016
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Vital Signs brings together the collected novellas by a modern master of the form, by a writer who Alice Munro has said "often comes as close to the baffling comedy of human experience as a writer can get." Elegant, wry, compassionate and mischievous...

• Nov-2016
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Set in Nashville, Memphis, New Orleans, and Ottawa, Ontario, the stories in The Museum at the End of the World span the life of writer Robert Ford and his wife Sheila. Playing with various forms of comedy throughout, author John Metcalf paints a port...

• Dec-2017
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Now in its 47th year, Best Canadian Stories has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many of the writers, throughout their respective careers, who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. Caroline Adderson, Ma...

• Jan-2019
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Finding Again the World brings together a dozen of the best stories by John Metcalf, a modern master of the form. Spanning more than fifty years and ranging from some of his earliest published stories, such as “Dandelions” and “The Eastmill Rec...

• Nov-2020
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• Nov-2023
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A celebration of fifty years of Best Canadian StoriesNow in its fiftieth year, the Best Canadian Stories series has long championed the short story form and highlighted the work of many writers who have gone on to shape the Canadian literary canon. M...