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The Hidden Keys
Andre AlexisIt's a grand thing, then, that this spry novel by Canadian Andre Alexis spends its 160 pages repeatedly defying expectations .
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André AlexisA is a work of fiction in which André Alexis presents the compelling narrative of Alexander Baddeley, a Toronto book reviewer obsessed with the work of the elusive and mythical poet Avery Andrews.
Pastoral
André AlexisAndré Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His debut novel, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize.
Asylum
André AlexisIt is playful, linguistically accomplished, and psychologically profound. Its yearnings constitute the highest level of human concerns and pursuits. Alexis has written The Great Canadian Novel, with a twist. From the Hardcover edition.
Beauty and Sadness
André AlexisIn the final piece of the book, entitled "Water", Alexis gives the reader an intimate sense of what it has been like to live as a writer these last twenty years while practicing an art form (fiction/literature) that he contends is in ...
Alexis Smith
Alexis SmithThis fully illustrated catalogue provides an overview of Los Angeles-based artist Alexis Smith's (born 1949) work from 1994 to 2015.
Fifteen Dogs
André AlexisEngaging and strange, full of unexpected insights into human and canine minds, this contemporary take on the apologue is the most extraordinary book you'll read this year.
Childhood
André AlexisA prize-winning novel that chronicles the childhood - or perhaps the lost childhood- of Thomas MacMillan.
Despair and Other Stories of Ottawa
André AlexisThese eight stories reveal a world that’s both recognizable and strange: cities of anxiety and violence, where quiet inhabitants lead outwardly banal lives that conceal sinister interiors.
Childhood: A Novel
Andre AlexisSet in the 1950s and '60s, this picaresque novel chronicles the childhood-or perhaps the loss of childhood-of Thomas MacMillan, a Canadian with ties to Trinidad, who pieces together, from memory and from related stories, the early years of ...
The Hidden Keys
André AlexisAre these really clues, or has Tancred fallen victim to the delusions of a junkie? Inspired by a reading of Treasure Island, The Hidden Keys questions what it means to be honourable and faithful in the face of desire.
Ingrid and the Wolf
André AlexisWhile on a visit from Canada to her parents former home in Hungary, eleven-year-old Ingrid discovers and befriends a wolf living in a labyrinth beneath her aristocratic grandmother's mansion and through him learns much about her family's ...
Despair and other stories of Ottawa
André AlexisTells the stories of city dwellers whose outward ordinariness conceals lives of fear and violence Despair quakes with life and sings with the imaginative brilliance of one of the most accomplished new talents writing today.
Autumn Leaves
André GideThis collection of reflective essays forms a “spiritual autobiography” of André Gide, a key figure of French letters André Gide, a literary and intellectual giant of twentieth-century France, mines his memories and personal ...
The Restless Mind: Alexis de Tocqueville on the Origin and ...
Peter Augustine LawlerThis book offers the most comprehensive account yet published of Alexis de Tocqueville's extraordinary thought and life.
Glaciers
Alexis M. SmithAlexis M. Smith. She doesn't know why, but out it comes weighted with anger and grief. It sounds like an accusation, but too it is a confession: of all the things she thought about soldiers before she met him—that they are emotionally damaged ...
Beauty and Sadness
Andr_ AlexisIn the final piece of the book, entitled "Water", Alexis gives the reader an intimate sense of what it has been like to live as a writer these last twenty years while practicing an art form (fiction/literature) that he contends is in ...
Essays on Approach and Method: Second Edition
André BéteilleII Surendra Munshi: In Conversation with Professor Andre Beteille* SM: Andre, may we begin with method? You have written much on the comparative method. How do you view it? AB: Well, I do advocate the comparative method, but this does ...
The Capacity for Infinite Happiness
Alexis Von KonigslowEffortlessly weaving together these two storylines, Alexis von Konigslow draws the reader into an astonishing tale of ill-fated love, extraordinary courage, and a daring transatlantic escape.
Oscar Wilde: Reminiscences
André GidePersonal recollections from André Gide on a man who profoundly influenced his work—Oscar Wilde André Gide, a towering figure in French letters, draws upon his friendship with Oscar Wilde to sketch a compelling portrait of the tragic, ...
The Journal of American history
Organization of American HistoriansThe American Sunday ALEXIS MCCROSSEN Supplementing wide-ranging historical research with the reflections and experiences of ordinary individuals, Alexis McCrossen traces conflicts over the meaning of Sunday that have shaped the ...
The Art of Solidarity in the Middle Ages: Guilds in England ...
Gervase Rosser5 Alexis Torrance, 'Individuality and identity-formation in late antique monasticism ', in Alexis Torrance and Johannes Zachhuber, eds, Individuality in Late Antiquity (Farnham, 2014), 111–27. 6 On fraternity with monastic communities in the ...
Open: An Autobiography
Andre AgassiHe is one of the most beloved athletes in history and one of the most gifted men ever to step onto a tennis court – but from early childhood Andre Agassi hated the game.
The Tragic Effect: The Oedipus Complex in Tragedy
André GreenIn this stimulating and wide-ranging 1979 study, André Green demonstrates the relevance of psychoanalysis to literary criticism.
Jewish/Christian/Queer: Crossroads and Identities
Preview10 Janet Grierson, who was a regular visitor to the Edinburgh salon as a young woman, recalls Andre's farewell parties for her when she would leave to spend summers in Vienna. “At the end of it Andre would say, with the slight foreign accent ...
Christianity's Dangerous Idea: How the Christian Principle & ...
Jonas E. AlexisHow the Christian Principle & Spirit Offer the Best Explanation for Life & why Other Alternatives Fail Jonas E. Alexis ... in a recent book entitled A Crime so Monstrous: Face-to-Face with Modem-Day Slavery, by E. Benjamin Skinner. What does ...
The Women of Warner Brothers: The Lives and Careers of 15 ...
Daniel BubbeoCast: Paul Hen- reid, Eleanor Parker, Alexis Smith, Janis Paige, Edmund Gwenn, Patric Knowles, Henry Stephenson. Night and Day (Warner Bros., 1946) Directed by Michael Curtiz. Cast: Cary Grant, Alexis Smith, Monty Woolley, Mary Martin, ...
Marking Modern Times: A History of Clocks, Watches, and ...
Alexis McCrossenIn Marking Modern Times, Alexis McCrossen relates how the American preoccupation with time led people from across social classses to acquire watches and clocks.
Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada
Preview... Carleton U Friesen, Gerald, U Manitoba Furlani, Andre, Concordia U Gerson, Carole, Simon Fraser U Gervais, Andre, ... Shannon, Laurentian U Higgins, Iain, U Victoria Hinchcliffe, Peter, St Jerome's College, Waterloo Hodgson, Heather, ...
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