[PDF] Hugh Garners Best Stories eBook

Author : Hugh Garner
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 22,88 MB
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0776622633

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Social justice is at the core of these award-winning stories exploring the Great Depression, the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Civil Rights movement, feminism, racism, disenfranchisement, and mistreatment.

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File Size : 20,76 MB
Release : 2003
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The conversion of Willie Heaps, The father, A couple of quiet young guys, Lucy, The yellow sweater, Make mine vanilla, Our neighbors the nuns, The expatriates, Red racer, Tea with Miss Mayberry, A visit with Robert, No more songs about the Suwanee, One mile of ice, The magnet, Some are so lucky, Hunky, Interlude in black and white, The nun in nylon stockings, A manly heart, The stretcher bearers, A trip for Mrs. Taylor, E equals MC squared, How I became an Englishman, One-two-three little Indians.

Author : Hugh Garner
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 22,75 MB
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0776622625

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Hugh Garner’s Best Stories received the Governor General’s Literary Award for English-language fiction in 1963. The collection consists of twenty-four stories composed between the late 1930s and the early 1960s and reflects the immense flux of the mid-century, from the Great Depression to the Spanish Civil War, World War II, the Civil Rights movement, and second-wave feminism. Garner takes on issues ranging from anglophone–francophone conflict in Canada to racism in the American South, from the disenfranchisement of First Nations people to the mistreatment of the mentally disabled. Best Stories is not only notable for the devastating precision of its prose, but also for its contribution to the Spanish Civil War literary canon. This new edition brings short fiction by Garner into conversation with the wider canon of Canadian and transnational leftist and proletarian literature.

Author : Reingard M. Nischik
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 19,35 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781571131270

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Beginning in the 1890s, reaching its first full realization by modernist writers in the 1920s, and brought to its heyday during the Canadian Renaissance starting in the 1960s, the short story has become Canada's flagship genre. It continues to attract the country's most accomplished and innovative writers today, among them Margaret Atwood, Mavis Gallant, Alice Munro, Carol Shields, and many others. Yet in contrast to the stature and popularity of the genre and the writers who partake in it, surprisingly little literary criticism and theory has been devoted to the Canadian short story. This collection redresses that imbalance by providing the first collection of critical interpretations of a range of thirty well-known and often-anthologized Canadian short stories from the genre's beginnings through the twentieth century. A historical survey of the genre introduces the volume and a timeline comparing the genre's development in Canada, the US, and Great Britain via representative examples completes it. The collection is geared both to specialists in and to students of Canadian literature. For the latter it is of particular benefit that the volume provides not only a collection of interpretations, but a comprehensive introduction to the history of the Canadian short story. Reingard M. Nischik is professor and chair of American Literature at the University of Constance, Germany.

Author : Hugh Garner
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 33,68 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Toronto (Ont.)
ISBN : 9781550653717

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CRIME & MYSTERY. A strange mixture of power, tension, and torment, Waste No Tears is a shocking expose of social evils with a forceful message for both sexes. Ignored by some critics, dismissed by others, this novel about the abortion racket is the stuff of legend: Hugh Garner claimed that it had been written in 10 days as part of a struggle to ward off incipient starvation; he was paid $400 for his efforts. Dark and disturbing, the story is a kind of memoir penned by Tom Matterson, a Cabbagetown son who spends 20 years making the 10-block journey from the street of his birth to skid row. Told from the perspective of its male narrator, the novel contains lurid descriptions of rapacious sex and harrowing depictions of death, boozing, brawling, blackmail, and back alley abortions. In Waste No Tears , the men are always tight and the women loose, and it is this downward spiral of sexual incontinence and drunken regret that propels the novel toward its morality-play conclusion.

Author : Hugh Garner
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,5 MB
Release : 2014
Category : Toronto (Ont.)
ISBN : 9781550653663

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A strange mixture of power, tension, and torment, Waste No Tears is a shocking exposé of social evils with a forceful message for both sexes. Ignored by some critics, dismissed by others, this novel about the abortion racket is the stuff of legend: Hugh Garner claimed that it had been written in 10 days as part of a struggle to ward off incipient starvation; he was paid $400 for his efforts. Dark and disturbing, the story is a kind of memoir penned by Tom Matterson, a Cabbagetown son who spends 20 years making the 10-block journey from the street of his birth to skid row. Told from the perspective of its male narrator, the novel contains lurid descriptions of rapacious sex and harrowing depictions of death, boozing, brawling, blackmail, and back alley abortions. In Waste No Tears, the men are always tight and the women loose, and it is this downward spiral of sexual incontinence and drunken regret that propels the novel toward its morality-play conclusion.

Author : Hugh Garner
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 29,15 MB
Release : 2010-01-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1459717341

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Published in 1949, Storm Below tells the story of a fictional Royal Canadian Navy ship HMCS Riverford, which is a composite of the vessels Hugh Garner served on during his time in the Canadian navy. The adventure unfolds over six days of an escort run across the Atlantic Ocean to Newfoundland during World War II.

Author : Robin McKinley
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 43,90 MB
Release : 2014-11-18
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1497673682

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From ensorcelled princesses to a frog that speaks, an enchanting collection of fairy tales from the Newbery Medal–winning author. The last mortal kingdom before the unmeasured sweep of Faerieland begins has at best held an uneasy truce with its unpredictable neighbor. There is nothing to show a boundary, at least on the mortal side of it; and if any ordinary human creature ever saw a faerie—or at any rate recognized one—it was never mentioned; but the existence of the boundary and of faeries beyond it is never in doubt either. So begins “The Stolen Princess,” the first story of this collection, about the meeting between the human princess Linadel and the faerie prince Donathor. “The Princess and the Frog” concerns Rana and her unexpected alliance with a small, green, flipper-footed denizen of a pond in the palace gardens. “The Hunting of the Hind” tells of a princess who has bewitched her beloved brother, hoping to beg some magic of cure, for her brother is dying, and the last tale is a retelling of the Twelve Dancing Princesses in which an old soldier discovers, with a little help from a lavender-eyed witch, the surprising truth about where the princesses dance their shoes to tatters every night.