Giles W Mark (46 results)

Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

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Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. A debut collection, these stories are set in the corporeal world of adult endeavour: the mall, the office, the subdivision. It's these settings that W. Mark Giles exploits: locking his sights on eerily familiar characters, excavating their fears, intimacies, and the dark machinery behind their actions. He taps into our collective longing for moments of clarity and awe, recognizes our thwarted potential for wonder, and sees our secrets played out in cruelty. A strangely unified collection, unsettling and surprising, 'Knucklehead' resides where the lines between real and imagined blur. Giles's penetrating view and unsentimental honesty shape these stories and push the reader's expectations of the"ordinary." These are mature and compelling narratives that encapsulate everything great about short fiction. They freeze a moment, but upon closer examination reveal something more, a message that resonates long after that story has been read. " 'Knucklehead' is a solid debut." - Quill & Quire Winner of the W.O. Mitchell/City of Calgary Award Winner of the W.O. Mitchell/City of Calgary Award A debut collection, these stories are set in the corporeal world of adult endeavour: the mall, the office, the subdivision. It's these settings that W. Mark Giles exploits: locking his sights on eerily familiar characters, excavating their fears, intimacies, and the dark machinery behind their actions. He taps into our collective longing for moments of clarity and awe, recognizes our thwarted potential for wonder, and sees our secrets played out in cruelty. A strangely unified collection, unsettling and surprising, "Knucklehead" resides where the lines between real and imagined blur. Giles's penetrating view and unsentimental honesty shape these stories and push the reader's expectations of the &quote;ordinary.&quote; These are mature and compelling narratives that encapsulate everything great about short fiction. They freeze a moment, but upon closer examination reveal something more, a message that resonates long after that story has been read. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Dwight Eliot was born on a baseball diamond, during a dugout-clearing brawl between his hometown team, The Seep Selects, and a team of barnstorming Cuban All Stars. Decades later, when he sees his childhood home being moved on a truck down the highway, he begins a quest to research the history of his hometown and of his family. Seep is being dismantled, and the land is being redeveloped as a master-planned recreational townsite to complement a nearby First Nations casino. And then his brother Darryl arrives on his doorstep with the force of a bus crash. In the face of the town's erasure, he tries to preserve its stories; so doing, he comes to question his own.andnbspSeep limns the tension between land development and landscape, trauma and nostalgia, dysfunction and intimacy in a narrative of twenty-first century Canada. Praise for Seep: "Mark Giles assuredly steps in the footsteps of his predecessors who so engagingly limned the Alberta prairie: W.O. Mitchell, Henry Kreisel,W.P. Kinsella, and Robert Kroetsch. Giles' Seep is a wickedly wonderful account of how our senses of self and of place can be interrelated, with the swirl of emotions involved in each part of the equation making for a complicated world and illuminating fiction." (Tom Wayman).…

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. This 1985 first printing of 160 pages is filled with photographs of Alberta's progress and development. Condition is fine with no names, markings, or tears. The book is clean, tight, and bright. The price clipped dust jacket has moderate edgewear and one very small tear on the back.…

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paperback. Condition: Very Good. Most items will be dispatched the same or the next working day. A copy that has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged.

PAP. Condition: New. New Book. Shipped from UK. Established seller since 2000.

Paperback. Condition: new. Paperback. Dwight Eliot was born on a baseball diamond, during a dugout-clearing brawl between his hometown team, The Seep Selects, and a team of barnstorming Cuban All Stars. Decades later, when he sees his childhood home being moved on a truck down the highway, he begins a quest to research the history of his hometown and of his family. Seep is being dismantled, and the land is being redeveloped as a master-planned recreational townsite to complement a nearby First Nations casino. And then his brother Darryl arrives on his doorstep with the force of a bus crash. In the face of the town's erasure, he tries to preserve its stories; so doing, he comes to question his own.&nbspSeep limns the tension between land development and landscape, trauma and nostalgia, dysfunction and intimacy in a narrative of twenty-first century Canada. Praise for Seep: "Mark Giles assuredly steps in the footsteps of his predecessors who so engagingly limned the Alberta prairie: W.O. Mitchell, Henry Kreisel,W.P. Kinsella, and Robert Kroetsch. Giles' Seep is a wickedly wonderful account of how our senses of self and of place can be interrelated, with the swirl of emotions involved in each part of the equation making for a complicated world and illuminating fiction." (Tom Wayman) Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…

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Condition: New. 2003. paperback. . . . . .

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. First Edition, 2003. Signed and Inscribed by author on Title page.

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Condition: New. 2003. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good+. 1st Edition. Minor shelf wear. Otherwise a square, tight, unmarked book. 236 pp.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Illustrated.

Condition: V. Good. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada: Anvil Press, 2003. 236 pp. Stories about the world of corporeal adult endeavour, the mall, the office tower, the subdivision. Softcover has some scuffing to back, minimal edge rubbing, clean and bright. Inscription to former owner by author on title page. Text is very clean, unmarked. A nice copy. Signed by Author. Soft Cover. V. Good. 7 1/2 x 5 1/2.…

Paperback / softback. Condition: New. New copy - Usually dispatched within 4 working days.

Condition: New. 2015. paperback. . . . . .

Paperback. Condition: New. 1st Edition. Special order item direct from the distributor.

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 221 pages. 8.25x4.25x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Condition: New. 2015. paperback. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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