HOME GAME.
by Quarrington, Paul
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in fine dust jacket. /fine
- Seller
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Ione, California, United States
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About This Item
Synopsis
The author of ten novels, Paul Quarrington was also a musician (most recently in the band Porkbelly Futures), an award-winning screenwriter and filmmaker, and an acclaimed non-fiction writer. Paul Quarrington's novel, Galveston , was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize; King Leary won the CBC's 2008 Canada Reads competition and the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal; and Whale Music was awarded the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction. Recently, Porkbelly Futures' self-titled second CD has been released to widespread acclaim, and Paul Quarrington's short film adaptation of The Ravine , entitled Pavane , was featured in the Moving Stories Short Film Festival. Paul Quarrington's non-fiction writing includes books on some of his favourite pastimes, such as fishing, hockey, and music. A regular contributor of book reviews, travel columns, and journalism to Canada's national newspapers and magazines, he also taught writing at Humber College and the University of Toronto. Paul Quarringon passed away in January 2010.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 13949
- Title
- HOME GAME.
- Author
- Quarrington, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover first edition -
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in fine dust jacket.
- Jacket Condition
- fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Doubleday,
- Place of Publication
- Toronto:
- Date Published
- 1983.
- Keywords
- baseball, canadian writer
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadian writers and history;
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