2003, ISBN: 0889842310

Paperback

[EAN: 9780889842311], Nieuw boek, [SC: 8.91], [PU: Erin, Ontario, Canada: Porcupines Quill], THE PORCUPINE'S QUILL, LORNA JACKSON, CANADIAN FICTION, Fiction|General, Original printed wrap… More...

[EAN: 9780889842311], Nieuw boek, [SC: 8.91], [PU: Erin, Ontario, Canada: Porcupines Quill], THE PORCUPINE'S QUILL, LORNA JACKSON, CANADIAN FICTION, Fiction|General, Original printed wraps. 248 pp. Octavo. ‘The novel follows a series of characters, including Arden, an intellectual singer stuck in the West Coast bar scene whose tale ends with inevitable tragedy; her husband, Nichol, who drifts through a series of disastrous love affairs; and their son, Roy, who meanders through a series of meaningless experiences. The plot is loose at best, as the narrative drifts in and out of the characters’ lives, following emotional notes more than story lines. The episodes are layered with subtext, and there are entire life histories contained in asides. This isn’t the usual Can Lit multi-generational saga of domestic affairs and quiet insights. A Game to Play on the Tracks is as brutally violent as it is introspective, as critical of the domestic life and its enforced passivity as it is of bar louts who want nothing more than endless reruns of AC/DC hits. Rather than writing the literary equivalent of a pop song with artificial and meaningless romances, Jackson has instead embraced the emotion of an improv jazz session, and crafted a tale of beautiful chaos.’ Printed offset by Tim Inkster on the Heidelberg KORD at the printing office of the Porcupine's Quill in the Village of Erin, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. Smyth sewn into 16-page signatures, with hand-tipped endleaves.<

2003, ISBN: 0889842310

Paperback

[EAN: 9780889842311], Neubuch, [PU: Erin, Ontario, Canada: Porcupines Quill], THE PORCUPINE'S QUILL, LORNA JACKSON, CANADIAN FICTION, Fiction|General, Original printed wraps. 248 pp. Octa… More...

[EAN: 9780889842311], Neubuch, [PU: Erin, Ontario, Canada: Porcupines Quill], THE PORCUPINE'S QUILL, LORNA JACKSON, CANADIAN FICTION, Fiction|General, Original printed wraps. 248 pp. Octavo. ‘The novel follows a series of characters, including Arden, an intellectual singer stuck in the West Coast bar scene whose tale ends with inevitable tragedy; her husband, Nichol, who drifts through a series of disastrous love affairs; and their son, Roy, who meanders through a series of meaningless experiences. The plot is loose at best, as the narrative drifts in and out of the characters’ lives, following emotional notes more than story lines. The episodes are layered with subtext, and there are entire life histories contained in asides. This isn’t the usual Can Lit multi-generational saga of domestic affairs and quiet insights. A Game to Play on the Tracks is as brutally violent as it is introspective, as critical of the domestic life and its enforced passivity as it is of bar louts who want nothing more than endless reruns of AC/DC hits. Rather than writing the literary equivalent of a pop song with artificial and meaningless romances, Jackson has instead embraced the emotion of an improv jazz session, and crafted a tale of beautiful chaos.’ Printed offset by Tim Inkster on the Heidelberg KORD at the printing office of the Porcupine's Quill in the Village of Erin, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. Smyth sewn into 16-page signatures, with hand-tipped endleaves.<

2003, ISBN: 0889842310

Paperback

[EAN: 9780889842311], Neubuch, [PU: Erin, Ontario, Canada: Porcupines Quill], THE PORCUPINE'S QUILL, LORNA JACKSON, CANADIAN FICTION, Original printed wraps. 248 pp. Octavo. ‘The novel fo… More...

[EAN: 9780889842311], Neubuch, [PU: Erin, Ontario, Canada: Porcupines Quill], THE PORCUPINE'S QUILL, LORNA JACKSON, CANADIAN FICTION, Original printed wraps. 248 pp. Octavo. ‘The novel follows a series of characters, including Arden, an intellectual singer stuck in the West Coast bar scene whose tale ends with inevitable tragedy; her husband, Nichol, who drifts through a series of disastrous love affairs; and their son, Roy, who meanders through a series of meaningless experiences. The plot is loose at best, as the narrative drifts in and out of the characters’ lives, following emotional notes more than story lines. The episodes are layered with subtext, and there are entire life histories contained in asides. This isn’t the usual Can Lit multi-generational saga of domestic affairs and quiet insights. A Game to Play on the Tracks is as brutally violent as it is introspective, as critical of the domestic life and its enforced passivity as it is of bar louts who want nothing more than endless reruns of AC/DC hits. Rather than writing the literary equivalent of a pop song with artificial and meaningless romances, Jackson has instead embraced the emotion of an improv jazz session, and crafted a tale of beautiful chaos.’ Printed offset by Tim Inkster on the Heidelberg KORD at the printing office of the Porcupine's Quill in the Village of Erin, Wellington County, Ontario, Canada. Smyth sewn into 16-page signatures, with hand-tipped endleaves., Books<

ISBN: 9780889842311

A Game to Play on the Tracks is the story of booze-loose and too-smart singer, Arden, and her failed return to the life of country music and the British Columbia bar scene. She has a new … More...

A Game to Play on the Tracks is the story of booze-loose and too-smart singer, Arden, and her failed return to the life of country music and the British Columbia bar scene. She has a new baby, some unhealed hurts, and a husband, Nichol, who is stuck in boyhood and thinks and talks in bad poems. Arden doesn''t survive the road, and the story belongs then to Nichol and Roy the Boy, those left behind to search the west coast for a good home, a good life, a meaningful history. Without Arden, Nichol tries a series of goofed-up love affairs and real estate blunders, and Roy grows up questioning a fallen pastoral world that isn''t always kind to children, haunted by his long-gone mother and her big-city tunes. Lorna Jackson, Books, Fiction and Literature, Fiction, Literary, A Game to Play on the Tracks Books>Fiction and Literature>Fiction>Literary, Porcupine's Quill<