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      Leon Rooke and His Works

      Keith Garebian

      A study of Canadian novelist Leon Rooke.

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      Painting the Dog: The Best Stories of Leon Rooke

      Leon Rooke

      Always fresh and original, these timeless stories push the boundaries of the traditional short story form. Painting the Dog is vintage Rooke: 17 highly original tales brimming with whimsy and…

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      Oh!: Twenty-Seven Stories

      Leon Rooke

      In his first short story collection in five years, Leon Rooke brings together an extraordinary array of documents from diverse hot spots around the world. In an attempt to answer…

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      Who Goes There

      Leon Rooke

      A year before Lewinsky became a household name, Leon Rooke was at work on this novel about an aging right-wing southern senator’s shenanigans with interns; fraudulent Vietnam War heroes; and…

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      The Happiness of Others

      Leon Rooke

      Brings together the best stories from author’s first two books The Love Parlour (Oberon, 1977) and Cry Evil (Oberon, 1980) with a selection of stories from The Broad Back of…

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      Muffins

      Leon Rooke

      Includes a square; has a vinyl cover of a photograph of Rooke and his wife and another woman (their daughter?).

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      Hot Poppies

      Leon Rooke

      Written by the author of the Governor General’s award-winning novel Shakespeare’s Dog , this title features poems.

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      The April Poems

      Leon Rooke

      April is pluck, prink and plumelets. April is an intellectual colossus who travels with a shotgun under her dress. Marriage to April is like the beauty of pure math …or…

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      Rank Songbirds

      Leon Rooke

      Leon Rooke’s Rank Songbirds delves into dramatic and intense relationships, politics and the quirks of society, celebrating humanity’s resilience in spite of-or perhaps because of-its flaws.

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      The Fall of Gravity

      Leon Rooke

      Here is the critically acclaimed novelist and short-fiction writer Leon Rooke writing at his very best. The Fall of Gravity is a novel to make one whistle and sing with…

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      Pope and Her Lady: A Novella

      Leon Rooke

      Presented in a stark dystopian setting, this extraordinary novella follows a lesbian couple on their journeys through the nightmarish reality of the disenfranchised. Peppered with Scottish slang and populated with…

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      Wide World in Celebration and Sorrow: Acts of Kamikaze Fiction

      Leon Rooke

      Subversive, edgy, and wildly entertaining, this short story collection is a unique encounter with fiction in Leon Rooke’s characteristic style as he peels back the skin of social convention and…

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      Swinging Through Dixie: Novellas and Stories

      Leon Rooke

      Peopled by Watermelon Queens and ten-year-old business men, these joyful, brilliantly crafted pieces speak to a magical time long forgotten.

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      A Good Baby: A Novel

      Leon Rooke

      The reissue of Leon Rooke’s critically-acclaimed 1990 novel, first published by Alfred A. Knopf.

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      The Last Shot: Eleven Stories and a Novella

      Leon Rooke

      From one of Canada’s most compelling and imaginative writers of short fiction comes a new collection of eleven stories and a novella.

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      How I Saved the Province

      Leon Rooke

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      White Gloves of the Doorman: The Works of Leon Rooke

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      There Are No Elders

      Austin Clarke

      Acompelling collectionthat explores thelives ofAfro-Caribbean immigrants living in Canada, these eight short storiesdelve into theexperiences of displaced persons living in contemporarysocietyall with arichness of language and rhythm thatis authentically urban.

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      Fabulous Fictions & Peculiar Practices

      Leon Rooke

      Fabulous Fictions & Peculiar Practices is a fantastical literary experiment in which text and image collide to form an irreverent satire of society’s indifference to the artist.

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      Hitting the Charts

      Leon Rooke

      Hitting the Charts brings back into print stories that go as far back as 1980.

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