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Chapters: Mordecai Richler, Douglas Coupland, Paul Haggis, Jeff Green, Sarah Polley, Jason Reitman, Paul Gross, Paul Quarrington, Mark Askwith, Robert Lepage, Thom Fitzgerald, Mary Harron, Gordon Pinsent, Michael Mahonen, Nell Shipman, Denys Arcand, Guy Maddin, Ian James Corlett, Andrew Nicholls and Darrell Vickers, Stan Daniels, Frances-Anne Solomon, Andrew Younghusband, Leslie Mcfarlane, Ron Sparks, Robert C. Cooper, Phil Comeau, John Mantley, Holly Dale, Rob Heydon, Ken Gord, Jeff Campagna, Fletcher Markle, Joseph Mallozzi, Deepa Mehta, Anne Wheeler, David Winning, Brad Fraser, Maureen Judge, Sidney Olcott, David Shore, Suzanne Jacob, René Balcer, Anais Granofsky, Clement Virgo, Denis Mcgrath, Oren Safdie, Bruce Mcdonald, Chuck Tatham, Martha Ostenso, Mark Palansky, Jack Blum, Patricia Rozema, Claude Jutra, Gilles Carle, John Campea, Roger Frappier, Graham Yost, Stephanie Morgenstern, Hossein Martin Fazeli, Raphael Shore, Pierre Curzi, Bruce Labruce, Dragan Todorovi?, Vic Sarin, David Julian Hirsh, Donald Shebib, Robin Spry, Vittorio Rossi, John Juliani, Emmanuelle Schick Garcia, Leo Orenstein, Adam Smoluk, Xavier Dolan, Stephen Williams, Scott Albert, Roland Michel Tremblay, Joan Finnigan, Dennis Foon, Andrew Currie, Karen X. Tulchinsky, Damian Lee, Annmarie Morais, Jill Golick, Susan Cohen, Bryan Michael Stoller, Michael Maclennan, W. Scott Darling, Craig Olejnik, Hugo Butler, Andrew Miller, Guy Fournier, Mark Kenneth Woods, Bruno Lázaro Pacheco, Vincenzo Natali, Esta Spalding, Zach Lipovsky, Noam Gonick, Greg Preece, Peter Kambasis, John Rogers, Roger Spottiswoode, Allan F. Nicholls, Semi Chellas, Anne Cameron, Roger Lemelin, Stefan Brogren, Giles Blunt, Jacob Tierney, Bernard Slade, Charles Foster, Jason Sherman, Greg Pritikin, John Nesbitt, Tom Walmsley, Dean Deblois, Andrew Kenneth Martin, Richard Sadler, Diane Flacks, Heather O'neill, Stephanie Savage, John Nursall, Michel Choquette, Jean-Louis Millette, Hart Boc...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=18949879 ... Read more

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Chapters: David Cronenberg, Sarah Polley, Genie Award for Best Screenplay, Paul Quarrington, Bob Clark, Robert Lepage, Thom Fitzgerald, Atom Egoyan, Denys Arcand, Brian Moore, Deepa Mehta, Brad Fraser, Don Mckellar, Gilles Carle, Robert Guza, Jr., Gil Courtemanche, Bernard Émond, Réjean Ducharme, Roger Lemelin, Daniel Petrie, Jean-Claude Lauzon, François Girard, Jean-Marc Vallée, Len Blum, Francis Leclerc, Robert Favreau, Philippe Falardeau, Denis Villeneuve. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 127. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: David Paul Cronenberg, OC, FRSC (born March 15, 1943) is a Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional actor. He is one of the principal originators of what is commonly known as the body horror or venereal horror genre. This style of filmmaking explores people's fears of bodily transformation and infection. In his films, the psychological is typically intertwined with the physical. In the first half of his career, he explored these themes mostly through horror and science fiction, although his work has since expanded beyond these genres. Cronenberg was born in Toronto, Ontario, where he currently lives. He is the son of Esther (née Sumberg), a musician, and Milton Cronenberg, a writer and editor. He was raised in a middle-class secular Jewish family. Cronenberg attended Harbord Collegiate Institute, later graduating from University College, University of Toronto with a degree in literature, having switched from science. He has cited William S. Burroughs and Vladimir Nabokov as influences. He remains an atheist and does not believe in an afterlife. After two short sketch films and two short art-house features (the black and white Stereo and the colour Crimes of the Future) Cronenberg went into partnership with Ivan Reitman. The Canadian government provide...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=7892 ... Read more

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Chapters: Neil Peart, Paul Anka, Randy Bachman, George Beverly Shea, Bryan Adams, Jim Vallance, Steven Page, Paul Quarrington, Back Alley John, Canadian Songwriters Hall of Fame, Jeff Burrows, Dallas Green, Lenny Breau, Brian Doerksen, Sebastian Komor, Lee Aaron, Jian Ghomeshi, Gavin Bradley, William Hawkins, Jeff Martin, Tyler Shipley, Raine Maida, Skye Sweetnam, R. Dean Taylor, Andy Kim, Drew Seeley, Nathan Carroll, Terry Jacks, Nick Gilder, Kevin Hearn, Darryl Neudorf, Billy Bryans, David Wilcox, Dave Bidini, Greg Sczebel, Colin Linden, Galt Macdermot, Gordon Downie, Fred St-Gelais, Patrick Pentland, Drew Nelson, Cristiano Bilanzola, Jack Scott, Rik Emmett, Dave Hensman, Jim Creeggan, Adam Messinger, John Harvey Gahan, Gareth Williams, Stephan Moccio, Janyse Jaud, Travis Macrae, Rick Lazaroff, J.j. Barrie, Rich Dodson, Billy Pettinger, Greg Wells, Dan Boeckner, Stuart Chatwood, Ralph Lee Bowerman, Calixa Lavallée, Basia Lyjak, Françoise Doherty, Nicholas Thorburn, Lindi Ortega, Alan Doyle, Dave Desroches, Stan Meissner, Natalie Brown, Christopher Ward, Phil Naro, Rob Wells, Meryn Cadell, John Murray Anderson, Matthew Gerrard, Douglas September, Ared Arzumanian, Kiva, Tim Gilbertson, Carl Newman, Todd Kerns, Bill Henderson, Linda Mcrae, Dante Decaro, Susan Jacks, Torquil Campbell, Les Emmerson, David Tyson, Alex Greggs, Kevin Drew, Ray Lyell, Haydain Neale, Gogo, Andrea Smith, Kevin Macmichael, Erica Ehm, Matt Murphy, Chris Koster, Jay Ferguson, Brock Skywalker, Alex Karzis, Alan Mills, Shelton Brooks, Wes Borg, Harry Hess, Garnet Rogers, Michael Turner, Tom Lewis, Ben Mink, Brendan Canning, Brad Daymond, Sébastian Hell, Dan Chen, Paul Haines, Andrew Scott, Don Cash, Ra Mcguire, Dave Clark, Eric Mercury, Dave Dunlop, Eve Goldberg, Al Connelly, John Mann, Andy Magoffin, Ian Blurton, Alexander Muir, Dave Genn, Robert Dickson, Bill Bourne, Lindsay Mitchell, Lonnie Szoke, Cecil Broadhurst, Jon Brooks, Bobby Gimby, Geri Karlst...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2281945 ... Read more

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Chapters: Loreena Mckennitt, Paul Quarrington, Lianna Klassen, Ali Matthews, Glen Soderholm, Jian Ghomeshi, Denny Doherty, Imaad Wasif, Charlie Angus, Don Messer, Ron Cahute, Shelley Posen, Stacy Lloyd Brown, James Gordon, Fergus O'byrne, Mariam Matossian, Harry Manx, Douglas September, J. P. Cormier, William Laskin, Evalyn Parry, Brenna Maccrimmon, David Francey, Séan Mccann, Garnet Rogers, Harris Newman, Jonathan Seet, Stevan Knezevich, Dermot O'reilly, Bob Hallett, Eve Goldberg, Solon Mcdade, Daniel Lapp, David Parry, D'arcy Broderick, Jon Brooks, Andy Vine, Jayme Stone, Jeremiah Mcdade, Denis Ryan, Jocelyne Lanois, Jack Nissenson, Lorne Elliott, Jadea Kelly, Achilla Orru, Allan Fraser, Db Benedictson, Aengus Finnan, Don Carroll. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 171. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Loreena Isabel Irene McKennitt, CM, OM, (born February 17, 1957) is a Canadian singer, composer, harpist, accordionist and pianist who writes, records and performs world music with Celtic and Middle Eastern themes. McKennitt is known for her refined, warbling soprano vocals. She has sold more than 13 million records worldwide. McKennitt was born in Morden, Manitoba of Irish and Scottish descent to parents Jack (a livestock dealer) and Irene McKennitt (a nurse). She moved to Stratford, Ontario in 1981, where she still resides. When Loreena was young she wanted to become a veterinarian but she found that music chose her rather than she it. Developing a passion for Celtic music, she learned to play the Celtic harp and began busking at various places, including St. Lawrence Market in Toronto in order to earn money to publish her first album. McKennitt's first album, Elemental, was released in 1985, followed by To Drive the Cold Winter Away (1987), Parallel Dreams (1989), The Visit (1991)...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=250340 ... Read more

Customer Reviews (2)

Turned me into a hockey fan
I'd read Whale Music by Paul Quarrington and loved it, so when I spotted "Logan in Overtime" I gave it a go.I never laughed out loud for so long since losing a number of tickle contests as a kid.

I'd always known that Goalies were a little strange - my perspective being old enough that I'd known a couple of kids who would play without masks or padding.They were nuts.Logan is such a goalie - nuts.

The premise is that Logan is a fellow with an alcohol problem and some minor dementia.He believes that space aliens (are there any other kind?)are out to get him.He is also a semi-professional goalie in a hockey league with a minor problem.They have no overtime rule for their play-offs.Everyone plays until the game is over (kind of like European soccer, I guess).

The team he plays for is mentioned in a book by the same author, "King Leary" which is a lot easier to find, let me tell you.In fact, I'd be very interested in finding a copy of "Logan" if that were at all possible...

A low-quality offering from a high-quality author
LOGAN IN OVERTIME, written by Paul Quarrington, is not lacking in ambition.It aspires to the magical quality achieved by W.P. Kinsella in his baseball stories, and to the large, often bizarre cast of charactersseen in the novels of Dickens and Irving.But LOGAN is a mess, a slight,sometimes amusing riff on the sport of hockey that achieves nothing morethan the creation of a nostalgic feeling for Quarrington's far better, morefully realized novels.In WHALE MUSIC and CIVILIZATION, and theautobiographical THE BOY ON THE BACK OF THE TURTLE, Quarrington mixes theodd with the realistic, creating memorable characters that come to life notonly because of their eccentricities, but because of Quarrington's verypalpable fondness for them.In LOGAN, his characters feel half-finished,coasting by on their oddness, and not creating any real empathy with thereader.It's not the subject matter:Kinsella achieved a far greaterstory with his similar IOWA BASEBALL CONFEDERACY.There, as in LOGAN,unusual, somewhat magical events are mixed with a story surrounding asingle game, but Kinsella balances his mystical-realism with a flair forfully-functioning characters that exist long after the tale is ended. Here, the effort is half-baked, as if Quarrington read Kinsella's novel,changed baseball to hockey, and hoped the rest would fall into place. Sadly, he fails. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Winnipeg Free Press, published by Thomson Gale on May 4, 2007. The length of the article is 480 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Quarrington tour combines his love of words and music.(Music - Articles)
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Gord Deval is the grand 'old guy' of sport fishing in Canada. Few anglers can match him when it comes to his familiarity with trout and fly fishing. Internationally known, he holds countless bait and fly casting records. Canadian and North American champion, he has represented Canada 32 times in North American and World competitions. "Memories of Magical Waters" contains a richness of fishing lore related to Deval's experiences on numerous streams, rivers and lakes in Ontario and Quebec. Throughout his extensive outdoor reminiscences are many insights into fish habitats, fishing 'how tos' and general insider tips on lures and casting techniques.Deval's fishing adventures of over fifty years take the reader to such exceptional trout waters as the Ganaraska River in Ontario, the Broadback River in Quebec, Lake Simcoe and many almost inaccessible waters within Ontario's Land O' Lakes, Haliburton, Muskoka and the Kawarthas, and streams closer to urban centres. His experiences include ice fishing and stream fishing, as well as fishing on open waters. As an angler, he has 'wet a line' with a veritable 'who's who' of fishermen past and present. ... Read more

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A decent book
Paul is a funny guy. I was surprised by how funny the novel was. I'd recommend it to any baseball fan. As for content, Home Game is filled with humour and subtle freak humour. Nathaniel Isbister eventually transforms into a freak himself and lives with other freaks. In the event that Nate had felt accepted in his previous normal life, the freaks would have no place at all in Home Game. I don't know what to make of the crazy freak related events of Home Game. Paul didn't seem to present any reasons as to the freaks. Nate could have easily just wandered upon some sort of jugglers or something. Good book, though. You probably won't think much of it if you don't like baseball.

If you like characters - You'll love this book
Sure, some people won't like this book. Decca passed on the Beatles.

It takes a few pages to understand what Quarrington isn't writing about. He is not writing about baseball, the circus, giants, midgets or two-headed dogs. He is writing about you and me.

The characters that populate his books, and this one especially, are there solely to guide us along a self-focused analytical path. By providing a wacky and zany world that reflects a pseudo-reality that allows us to examine ourselves from afar we learn more than if it was a self-help book.

What could be a better read than reading about yourself?

Excellent and complete Fun!
I have read and re-read this book several times over the years.It is an excellent comedic fantasy, as well as a surreal commentary on life-and-what-you-make-of-it.This isn't a book about baseball:rather it is a book about people, of all shapes and sizes (and when I say "All shapes and sizes" I mean just that).

I can't help but think, each time I read this, about what a wonderful movie it could make...quirky enough to entice someone like Tim Burton to direct, and star Johnny Depp as Isbister!

Do yourself a favour and read this book if you can find a copy.

As for the idiot who clicked that this review wasn't helpful, I can't help but think Amazon would be best served to force someone to type a reason why he/she/it did not find this review helpful.

Do yourself a favour and find this treasure!
I am shocked that this, my favourite book from my teenage years, is consistently out-of-stock!Quarrington being a Canadian author, I sometimes find the book hidden in the stacks at various Toronto stores. But that does nothing for the vast American audience who would do well toread a fictional chronicle of their national pastime.See this review asthe first step on my personal crusade to revive the life of this greatbook.

Early in my teens, baseball was my religion.I memorizedstatistics, and read up feverishly on the history of the game.When givento me as a gift before the summer of my thirteenth year, I was excitedabout beginning Home Game.It exceeded all of my expectations!Thebaseball scenes were magnificent, but the characters and the story stillmanaged to overshadow even that.

Nathanael "Crybaby" Isbisteris a good focal point.He was a great baseballer, whose major leaguecareer was curiously brief.His mysterious past is slowly revealed, andalways provides wonderful revelation about his character.He is foundwandering in the Michigan countryside, when he happens upon a troupe ofcarnival freaks.They are under constant scrutiny from a religious sectcalled the House of Jonah, whose baseball playing is legendary, and whoseleader, Tekel Ambrose, is neck and neck with Isbister for the title of thegreatest ballplayer ever to lace up spikes.Through a serious ofwonderfully convoluted circumstances, The House of Jonah challenges thefreaks to a baseball game, with the loser to leave town.

The carnivalfreaks are a beautifully eclectic and wonderfully drawn cast of outcasts. Dr. Sinister, their leader, speaks in an English so byzantine that no onecan understand him.Major Mite is the shortest man in the world, and alsothe most belligerent.Angus MacCallister is the strongest man in theworld, with passions run deeper than the Grand Canyon.There's the Hisslopsisters, Siamese twins and second basewomen.Davey Goliath, the tallestman in the world, but so full of paranoia that his every move is haunted. Stella, the fattest woman in the world, and surprise love interest.AndZap (a.k.a. the Wild Man From Borneo), who is the focal point of one of thegreatest plot twists I've ever come across.Each character is given adetailed personal history so carefully constructed that you really feellike these people are alive and walking around.

The story moves alongwith great momentum, constantly being pushed forward by a plot that islogically structured toward one defining moment.I especially liked theframing device he uses (the author's grandfather has returned from exile,to bully him into writing the story of The Game).Nothing like a heartydose of meta-fiction to brighten your day.

The game itself is achievedwith a perfect balance of comedy and drama, suspense and light-heartedness. After coming to its conclusion, I went back to read it again.It was onlythen that I realized that every at bat is presented... in detail!This is anamazing achievement when you realize that Quarrington never repeatshimself.Each at bat is interesting in itself.

I've re-read this bookseveral times over the years.It is still a comic tour de force, andemotional treasure.And even though it can never recapture the excitementof that very first read, I still marvel at this wonderful, little story.

Clever and compassionate.
If readers will allow an author of Quarrington's calibre some lattitude, they'll be in for a great time. This is a wonderful book that moulds freakish absurdity into humanity, an approach thatreverses the course oftoday's trendy writers. Along the way, Quarrington teaches us somethingabout people and the poetry of baseball. Quarrington is refreshing. Iwish he'd write more. I lost my only copy of this book and have beenlooking to replace it since. ... Read more

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Between the Covers Collection- Canadian fiction narrated by Timothty Webber. Winner of both the Stephen Leacock Award for humour and the Governor General's Award for Fiction, Paul Quarrington is one of Canada's best comic writers. Well- known as a tv actor Timothy Webber has recdently appeared in Black Harbour, S-Files and North of 60 ... Read more