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9781771961073 | Biblioasis, November 15, 2016, cover price $14.95
Product Description: Blinded by smallpox at the age of six, John Metcalf (1717-1810) led a life that might have featured in an eighteenth-century novel. Popularly known as 'Blind Jack of Knaresborough', Metcalf had many and varied careers, including musician, horse trader, fish supplier, textile merchant and stage-wagon operator...read more
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9781108079136 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 31, 2015, cover price $25.99 | About this edition: Blinded by smallpox at the age of six, John Metcalf (1717-1810) led a life that might have featured in an eighteenth-century novel.
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9780534526627, titled "Criminology" | Wadsworth Pub Co, August 1, 2002, cover price $105.95 | also contains Criminology
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9781771960526 | Biblioasis, May 31, 2016, cover price $15.95
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9780778014195 | Oberon Pr, November 1, 2014, cover price $39.95
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9780778014201 | Oberon Pr, November 1, 2014, cover price $19.95
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9781927428955 | Biblioasis, March 17, 2015, cover price $17.95
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9780778014027 | Oberon Pr, November 1, 2013, cover price $39.95
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9780778013853 | Oberon Pr, October 1, 2012, cover price $39.95
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9780778013860 | Oberon Pr, October 1, 2012, cover price $19.95
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9780778013693 | Oberon Pr, October 1, 2011, cover price $39.95
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9780778013532 | Oberon Pr, September 1, 2010, cover price $19.95
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9780778013525 | Oberon Pr, September 1, 2010, cover price $39.95
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9780778013358 | Oberon Pr, September 1, 2009, cover price $39.95
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9780778013198 | Oberon Pr, October 27, 2008, cover price $39.95
Product Description: 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 from Britain, is pitted against small-mindedness, prejudice, and temptations that are generations old...read more
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9781897231333 | Biblioasis, October 1, 2007, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: 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.
Product Description: John Metcalf's Shut Up He Explained defies expectations and strict definition. Part memoir, part travelogue, part criticism -- wholly Metcalf -- it is thoughtful, engaged, contentious and often very funny. It offers a full does of Metcalfian wisdom and wit, and provides ample evidence that neither age nor indifference nor attack have withered him: he remains as sharp, critical, constructive and insightful as ever...read more
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9781897231326 | Consortium Book Sales & Dist, September 1, 2007, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: John Metcalf's Shut Up He Explained defies expectations and strict definition.
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9780778013006 | Oberon Pr, January 1, 2007, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Book by
Product Description: According to Russell Banks, North Carolina ex-pat Leon Rooke's work charts "what the short story form can and cannot do, for he works out there in the terra incognita mapping limits." Hitting the Charts, a nineteen story Best-Of compilation, offers stories as free from constraint as a Monk solo, and as disquieting and resonant as a southern Baptist preacher at a big-tent revival...read more
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9781897231180 | Biblioasis, September 15, 2006, cover price $28.95 | About this edition: According to Russell Banks, North Carolina ex-pat Leon Rooke's work charts "what the short story form can and cannot do, for he works out there in the terra incognita mapping limits.
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9780889842748 | Porcupines Quill, November 1, 2003, cover price $19.95
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9780889842663 | Porcupines Quill, May 15, 2003, cover price $14.95
Product Description: 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 Blaise, and criticism by Lawrence Mathews, W...read more
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9780919890770 | Vehicule Pr, November 1, 2002, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: This collection of writing by eight of Canada's best contemporary story writers is presented in tandem with critical essays immediately following each story.
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9780964517349, titled "Kayhut: A Warrior's Odyssey" | Four Directions Pub, June 1, 1998, cover price $15.00
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9780889841833 | Porcupines Quill, September 15, 1996, cover price $16.95
Product Description: Freedom from Culture presents eleven more of the polished and incisive essays on Canadian literature and culture that have made John Metcalf a household name in households of the better sort. His subjects range over the dangers of state subsidy, anthologizing, the inflation of reputations by academics desperate to invent new ancestors, and the lunacy of affirmative action in literature...read more
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9781550222029 | E C W Pr, October 1, 1994, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Freedom from Culture presents eleven more of the polished and incisive essays on Canadian literature and culture that have made John Metcalf a household name in households of the better sort.
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9780889841666 | Porcupines Quill, December 1, 1993, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A new edition of this title may be available from Thomas Allen.
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9780889841277 | Porcupines Quill, June 1, 1993, cover price $18.95
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