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Leiren-Young, Mark

 
9781894974523: Never Shoot a Stampede Queen: A Rookie Reporter in the Cariboo
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1894974522 ISBN 13 : 9781894974523
Editeur : Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd, 2009

Synopsis

Winner of the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour The cops wanted to shoot me, my bosses thought I was a Bolshevik, and a local lawyer warned me that some people I was writing about might try to test the strength of my skull with a steel pipe. What more could any young reporter hope for from his first real job? The night Mark Leiren-Young drove into Williams Lake, British Columbia, in 1985 to work as a reporter for the venerable Williams Lake Tribune , he arrived on the scene of an armed robbery. And that was before things got weird. For a 22-year-old from Vancouver, a stint in the legendary Cariboo town was a trip to another world and another era. From the explosive opening, where Mark finds himself in a courtroom just a few feet away from a defendant with a bomb strapped to his chest, to the case of a plane that crashed without its pilot on board, Never Shoot a Stampede Queen is an unforgettable comic memoir of a city boy learning about and learning to love life in a cowboy town.

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À propos de l'auteur

Mark Leiren-Young is a journalist, filmmaker and author of numerous books, including Never Shoot a Stampede Queen, for which he won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and The Green Chain, which is based on his award-winning film of the same name. His article for the Walrus about Moby Doll, the first orca publicly exhibited in captivity, was a finalist for the National Magazine Award, and he won the Jack Webster award for his CBC Idea's radio documentary Moby Doll: The Whale that Changed the World. Leiren-Young is currently finishing a feature length film documentary on Moby Doll.

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Éditeur
Heritage House Publishing Co Ltd
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1894974522
ISBN 13 
9781894974523
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
224
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