Houseboat Chronicles: Notes from a Life in Shield Country

MacDonald, Jake

ISBN 10: 1592285538 / ISBN 13: 9781592285532

Edité par Lyons Pr (edition First Edition first Printing), 2004

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With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Houseboat Chronicles: Notes from a Life in Shield Country
• Éditeur: Lyons Pr (edition First Edition first Printing)
• Date de parution: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1592285538
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781592285532
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: First Edition first Printing.
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Jaquette

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Synopsis

Book by MacDonald Jake

Revue de presse

“MacDonald is a wry, witty, and self-effacing writer, with as keen an eye for human character as he has for the natural world. His account of his Winnipeg childhood will resonate keenly with anyone who ever yearned for a pellet gun, or spent long summer afternoons exploring the wilds of country forests or city parks and ravines....Houseboat Chronicles is a joy to read....”
–Quill & Quire

“MacDonald has what a screenwriter friend praises as ‘dexterity.’ Urban avenue or backwoods trail, his laced-with-sense-of-wonder writing never fails to do justice to locale.”
–Winnipeg Free Press

“Living in a houseboat thousands of miles from the rest of civilization with some other like-minded types and a billion blackflies for company never sounded so inviting as in this book. Tangy and sharp, Houseboat Chronicles is perfectly suited to fall.”
–Calgary Herald

“MacDonald has in him a touch of Grey Owl (the self-transforming imagination), a dollop of Mark Twain (brilliant comic iconoclasm) and a merciful twist of Bart Simpson (a capability for ‘keeping it real,’ as Lisa Simpson once put it). While MacDonald’s writing possesses both power and magic, there is about it a jauntiness and good will, an often self-deprecating skepticism that whispers from between the lines, ‘I am neither your “sensitive” nor your stentorian nature writer, and I’m not going to let you forget it.’ This isn’t to say MacDonald is not ‘sensitive’ – he is – but more so that he sees the brutality as well as the grace of Nature; sees the grand joke and the giddiness along with the gravitas. And it is happily to our advantage as readers....[We are lucky to have] writers such as MacDonald, who know and love this graceful land, and whose version of it illuminates our own sometimes limited version.”
–Globe and Mail
From the Hardcover edition.