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1. A Passion for Narrative: A Guide to Writing Fiction - Revised Edition by Jack Hodgins | |
Paperback: 320
Pages
(2001-01-18)
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helpful for my writers craft class, |
2. Douglas Gibson Unedited: On Editing Robertson Davies, Alice Munro, W.O.mitchell, Mavis Gallant, Jack Hodgins, Alistair Macleod, Etc. by Christine Evain | |
Paperback: 125
Pages
(2007-11-30)
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3. Spit Delaney's Island: Selected Stories (New Canadian Library) by Jack Hodgins | |
Mass Market Paperback: 248
Pages
(1992-09-01)
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Jack Hodgins' Island One of the most importantmeasures of a book is whether you understand and care about the characters.By the time you finish Spit Delaney's Island, you will feel like you knowthe folks who inhabit the stories, and you will be saddened by theirtragedies and overjoyed by their triumphs.Hodgins peoples his storieswith characters that could have come from your own life, or at least thatyou will wish did. The stories in this volume, and indeed much ofHodgins' work, are set on the section of Vancouver Island where the authorgrew up. Their stories rise organically through Hodgins clear, exquisiteprose. These are not loud stories, but they resonate with the strength ofprecise observation and the wonderful talent to tell a tale in which thereader cannot help but empathize with and indeed root for thecharacters. If you enjoy this book, you should also check out the BarclayFamily Theatre, and selection of stories by Hodgins. ... Read more |
4. The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (New Canadian Library Series) by Jack Hodgins | |
Mass Market Paperback: 352
Pages
(1997-10-01)
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5. The Macken Charm by Jack Hodgins | |
Paperback: 280
Pages
(2000-04-15)
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A family madness. . . If you pick up The Macken Charm you will encounter such a writer. You will meet a manwho's spent his life in such a place, yet who has the aptitude to convey how much dramasuch lives can endure.There's nothing false or contrived in the events surrounding Glory'sfuneral or the times preceding it.Hodgins has given us the lives of this remote communitythrough the eyes of the youthful Randy Macken.Randy, torn in many directions overrelations with his family, the blood relatives and the married-in ones, coincidental with hiswish to escape the isolation in the nearest big city - Vancouver.It's an old story, but Hodginsdeals with it in ways rarely achieved by today's urban writers.His ability to see the family'sinteractions through the eyes of this young, if discerning, man reveals the talent of this writer. Although Hodgins' portrait of Randy Macken is valid and captivating, it's the presentation ofRandy's cousin Toby that shows Hodgins at his best.A figure that could have been buried indramatic surrealism, Hodgins brings this tragi-comic figure to life in subtle steps.Toby'sentry is sly, almost a backstage insertion into the day's events.But he's a central figure inRandy's life and in the minds of Barclays, Mackens, Aaltos and the rest.To discover why,pick up this book and spend a quiet day reading and reflecting on people you probablyknow.You will discover one of North America's finer authors, one whose books you willseek out as treasures to be added to your shelves. ... Read more |
6. Distance by Jack Hodgins | |
Paperback: 383
Pages
(2004-10-05)
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A painful but rewarding round-trip
Guilt trips We follow Sonny Aalto from Ottawa to Vancouver Island, then across the Pacific.There's even a side journey to the woods of Finland, his family's origins.The journey confronts us with Sonny's family."Confront" is fraught with meaning, since Sonny's interactions with his family are tense and acerbic.Pleasant words don't often appear and "dislike" is the mildest epithet available.Yet the hostility is tempered with another side to all the characters.Family life, no matter how conflict-filled, still carries an undercurrent of mutual respect and tenderness.Sonny, who has strenuously resisted communicating with his father while seeking closer ties with his own children, is induced to return home. Why is Sonny so frequently on the move?He's spent a lifetime edging eastward, following various careers, seeking his children.He travels incessantly - ruined cathedrals, shrines to pagan gods, remote villages.The driving force is his father, Timo - "Swampy" Aalto.Abandoned by his wife Viira, Timo, quite unprepared for the role, becomes a single parent.In a remote corner of Vancouver Island, missing part of a leg, and virtually unemployable, he resents the role and his life.Sonny is either left to his own devices or forced to clean up after Timo's drunken debauches with whichever women will tolerate him.Leaving home wasn't a hard decision for Sonny.Once departed, he just never stopped.Ottawa is his latest refuge - "he wanted to belong" .Will it be his last? Skating the Rideau Canal on one of Ottawa's notorious February days, Sonny is confronted by a stranger claiming to be his brother."Believe me, mate. I would not risk frozen gonads for a prank!"Jerrod has travelled half way around the planet to deliver an invitation: come to Australia and visit his mother.And shoot boar - they kill sheep.Sonny demurs.He hasn't used a rifle in thirty years.Far more significantly, he's uncertain how to deal with his long-vanished mother.Lured to Victoria by his ailing father, the island continent beckons.Timo, who has his own reasons to confront Viira, endorses the journey.Crippled, seriously ill, he embraces the idea of the adventure.Timo as a travelling companion is compounding risk. Family relationships, especially those dominated by confrontation, make compelling reading.Sonny has inherited his father's tendency to steer away from family ties - his son is "up the Valley" running a craft store while his daughter Charlotte returned to Vancouver pursuing a photographic career.Charlotte scorns Sonny, while son Warren seems to communicate only to request money.Under Jack Hodgins' perceptive eye and skilled narrative style, these characters become vividly staged in this engrossing tale.The family gathering in the Australian bush becomes a cockpit of conflicting experiences and interests.For all his mother-deprived upbringing, Sonny is a successful businessman.He must hold his own against half-siblings, and on their home turf.Hodgins doesn't invoke a false hero in Sonny, but there's strength and motives to persevere against stiff odds.Timo also shows unexpected drive, his patriarchal role may be challenged, but rarely relinquished. Hodgins' characters are finely drawn - he has a keen sense of details about people and their habitats.His ability to convey idiosyncrasies of local speech borders on the uncanny.You can hear the bushman's voice of Jerrold Hawkins.Timo's irascibility echoes the stress of years struggling in Vancouver Island's own bush environment.Sonny's firewood supplier's laconic observations reflecting life in the upper Ottawa Valley.This isn't stereotyping, it's identification. Hodgins draws more than characters.In tracing Sonny's wanderings, each locale is characteristically depicted.Ottawa's chip wagons, Vancouver Island's isolated "up-island" towns, and the novelty of the island continent.His Australian visits enable a special talent for conveying the contrasting environments.When he takes Sonny to the vastness of Australia's desert, he pictures it both with the eye of a casual visitor and established resident.You share Sonny's role as the intruder into both family and place with sympathy.The vast stretches and novel circumstances of that distant and unusual land.Jack Hodgins introduces us to people and places we may never encounter.Follow his lead into journeys of mind and space.It's a rewarding jaunt. [stephen a. haines - Ottawa, Canada] ... Read more |
7. Innocent Cities by Jack Hodgins | |
Paperback: 432
Pages
(2000-09-16)
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8. The Honorary Patron by Jack Hodgins | |
Paperback: 413
Pages
(1989)
Isbn: 077104190X Canada | United Kingdom | Germany | France | Japan | |
9. The Master of Happy Endings by Jack Hodgins | |
Hardcover: 356
Pages
(2010-04)
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Editorial Review Product Description The Master of Happy Endings is a powerful new novel about memory, belonging, helping others, and the vagaries of the human heart. It is also a compelling story about how a man in his late seventies manages to conjure one more great adventure for himself. Axel Thorstad lives in a shack on a remote island off the coast of British Columbia. Once a popular school teacher and thespian who touched the lives of hundreds of his students, he now lives in retirement and mourns the recent death of his wife. But even this stoical giant of a 77-year-old finds the isolation too much. He begins to run want ads in newspapers offering his services as a tutor, and meets the indomitable Mrs. Montana. She hires Axel to coach her precocious teenage-TV-actor son Travis for his school exams while he shoots a new episode in Hollywood. Life in L.A. is far removed from his isolated life in rural B.C., and soon Thorstad finds himself caught up in the drama of his young student’s life, and the return of an old flame. |
10. Over Forty in Broken Hill: Unusual Encounters Outback & Beyond (Uqp Paperbacks) by Jack Hodgins | |
Paperback: 197
Pages
(1992-06)
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11. Damage Done by the Storm by Jack Hodgins | |
Hardcover: 224
Pages
(2004-09-14)
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Whatever happened to Dora? |
12. The Invention of the World (Modern Contemporary Fiction Po) by Jack Hodgins | |
Paperback: 356
Pages
(2010-03-15)
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Editorial Review Product Description Jack Hodgins begins The Invention of the World with a ferry worker waving you aboard a ship that will take you not onlyto Vancouver Island but into a world of magic. The far west coast of Canada has always been regarded as a “lands end” where the eccentrics of the world come to plot out the last best utopia.Hodgins both invents a world and shows how we continually invent that world in all its multiplicity.Past and present intermingle while hilarious farce rubs up against epic tragedy. Intertwined are a love story, a portrait of a nineteenth-century village, a clash between wild loggers and weight-watching town folk who have to wear a pig when they fail to meet their weight goals. Pagan myths rub shoulders with the harsh pioneer days of the British Columbia rainforest. As always with Hodgins this novel is based incharacter and characters. At the centre of the mystery is Donal Keneally, the mad Irish messiah who eighty years ago persuaded an entire Irish village to emigrate to Canada, there to become his slaves in the Revelations Colony of Truth. His heir is Maggie Kyle and her collection of boarders in the old Colony of Truth building. Here truly is a novel that is itself an invention of the world. Customer Reviews (1)
The Invention of the World |
13. Broken Ground by Jack Hodgins | |
Paperback: 360
Pages
(1999-08-30)
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Broken ground and broken hopes Broken Ground's account of veteran resettlement in Canada strikes a touchy spot.Seeing theremnants of post-World War I rural allotments [don't grace them with the name 'farm'], alongcountry lanes in the US and Canada or in bleak isolation in Australian paddocks, induces theconjuring of ghosts.Cramped houses, wretched and sagging, roofless or home to hay baleswere once inhabited by families seeking a promised future.These abandoned sites are vividtestimony of how fragile that futurevalid rewards given men who'd survived Western Civilization's [sic] most horrendous conflict.Hodgins gives us a fresh reminder of the impactof that strife and the pitiable acknowledgment given its participants.They had just spentyears combating enemies both human and natural, only to return home and learn strugglingto survive remained central to their lives. Hodgins, who has a fine knack for portraying people, here expresses several voices indepicting those post-Great War conditions in rural Vancouver Island.The common thread ofthose voices is Matt Pearson, veteran, farmer, teacher.Hodgins' style makes it easy toconsider Pearson a projection of Hodgins himself, thrust back in time, living an imagined life. Pearson isn't hardened by the war, although he's certainly toughened.Disillusionmentassaults, but doesn't overwhelm him.Pearson's role grows as the book wends its way to aconclusion in modern times.Throughout the book, Hodgins' portrayal of the survivors ofthat era of unfulfilled promises reflects what he knows, yet hasn't lived.It's a fine expressionof writing talent.You needn't be either Canadian nor World War I veteran to enjoy whatHodgins has produced.Reading this book requires no more than to be sympathetic to humanvalues.
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14. Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (The New Canadian Library) by Stephen Leacock | |
Paperback: 216
Pages
(2010-09-07)
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It made me homesick for a little town that never existed.
very nice book
funniest book i've ever read
It Soothes the Soul For me, one of the funniest sections of the book was the introduction written by Leacock, where he gives you some background about himself and his profession. This short piece of writing quickly gives you an idea of the type of humor you will find in the actual sketches: a very sly, very quiet and clever type of humor that often takes a while to sink in. Leacock does not rely on rim shot jokes or manic posturing in his writings. Instead, he creates the fictional Canadian town of Mariposa and populates it with small town archetypes that are wonders to behold. All of the characters are hilarious in their own way: Mr. Smith, the proprietor of the local hotel and bar, full of schemes to earn money while trying to get his liquor license back. Then there is Jefferson Thorpe, the barber involved in financial schemes that may put him on the level of the Morgans and the Rockefellers. The Reverend Mr. Drone presides over the local Church of England in Mariposa, a man who reads Greek as easy as can be but laments his lack of knowledge about logarithms and balancing the financial books of the church. Peter Pupkin, the teller at the local bank, has a secret he wants no one to know about, but which eventually comes out while he is courting the daughter of the town judge. All of these characters, and several others, interact throughout the sketches. Leacock has the ability to turn a story, to make it take a crazy, unexpected twist even when you are looking for such a maneuver. That he accomplishes this in stories that rarely run longer than twenty pages is certainly a sign of great talent. By the time you reach the end of the book, you know these people as though you lived in the town yourself, and you know what makes them tick. Despite all of the crazy antics in Mariposa, Leacock never lets the reader lose sight of the fact that these are basically good people living good lives. There seems to be a lot of feeling for the citizens of Mariposa on the part of Leacock, which comes to a head in the final sketch in the collection, "L'Envoi. The Train to Mariposa," where he recounts traveling back to the town after being away for years, with all of the attendant emotions that brings as recognizable landmarks come into view and the traveler realizes that his little town is the same as when he left it years before. I suspect there is a historical importance to "Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town." These writings first appeared in 1912, a time when many people living in the bigger Canadian cities still remembered life in a small town. In addition to the humorous aspects of the book, the author includes many descriptive passages concerning the atmosphere and layout of Mariposa, something instantly recognizable to anyone who grew up in such a place. Nostalgia for the simpler life of the small town probably played a significant role in the book's success. I look forward to reading more Stephen Leacock. While much of the humor in the book is not belly laugh funny, it does provide one with a deep satisfaction of reading clever humor from an author who knows how to tickle the funny bone. You do not need to be Canadian to enjoy this wonderful book.
the funniest book i've ever read |
15. Jack Hodgins and His Works (Canadian Author Studies series) by David Jeffrey | |
Paperback: 53
Pages
(1989-01-01)
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16. Canadian Short Story Writers: Margaret Atwood, Roch Carrier, Timothy Findley, Carol Shields, Jane Urquhart, Morley Callaghan, Jack Hodgins | |
Paperback: 556
Pages
(2010-09-15)
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17. Bones Characters; List of Bones Characters, Temperance "Bones" Brennan, Lance Sweets, Seeley Booth, Zack Addy, Angela Montenegro, Jack Hodgins | |
Paperback: 80
Pages
(2010-05-01)
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18. Biography - Hodgins, Jack (1938-): An article from: Contemporary Authors by Gale Reference Team | |
Digital: 5
Pages
(2002-01-01)
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19. University of Victoria Faculty: Jack Hodgins, Emmanuel Brunet Jailly, Tim Lilburn, John L. Climenhaga, Patrick Lane, Dorothy E. Smith | |
Paperback: 92
Pages
(2010-05-06)
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20. Jack Hodgins: Essays on His Works (Writers series) | |
Paperback: 262
Pages
(2010-06-01)
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Editorial Review Product Description In this collection of essays, the achievements of Jack Hodgins are celebrated by contributors who include Ron Hatch, Linda Morra, Joel Martineau, Jeanne Delbaere, Tim Struthers, Elizabeth Galway, Duffy Roberts, Travis Mason, and Waldemar Zacharasiewicz. With commentary on Hodgins’s individual works, an extensive interview with him, and a critical introduction to the collection, this compilation provides a unique analysis and biography of a prolific Canadian writer. |
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