books by Jack Hodgins (competition federation narrative)

books by Jack Hodgins

books:

Spit Delaney's Island: Selected Stories (New Canadian Library)
Jack Hodgins

New Canadian Library, 1992

Spit Delaney’s Island is Vancouver Island, and its settings – the lush green forests, the pulp mills, the all-encompassing sea, and the ferries crossing to the mainland – permeate this stunning collection of short fiction. Opening and closing with stories about Spit Delaney himself, the operator of Old Number One steam locomotive in the local mill, the volume travels between the harsh world of its people’s reality and the comforts of ...

The Invention of the World (Modern Contemporary Fiction Po)
Jack Hodgins

Ronsdale Press, 2010

Jack Hodgins begins The Invention of the World with a ferry worker waving you aboard a ship that will take you not only to Vancouver Island but into a world of magic. The far west coast of Canada has always been regarded as a “lands end” where the eccentrics of the world come to plot out the last best utopia. Hodgins both invents a world and shows how we continually invent that world in all its multiplicity. Past and present ...

"The Air Between Us, Winners of the 1994 Federation of B. C. Writers' Festival Writing Competition"
Federation of B. C. Writers, 1994

Binding Unknown

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (New Canadian Library)
Stephen Leacock

New Canadian Library, 1989

Affectionately combining both the idyllic and ironic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock’s most beloved book. Set in fictional Mariposa, an Ontario town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti, these sketches present a remarkable range of characters: some irritating, some exasperating, some foolhardy, but all endearing. Painted with the skilful brushstrokes of a great comic artist, the delightful inhabitants of Mariposa represent ...

A Passion for Narrative: A Guide to Writing Fiction - Revised Edition
Jack Hodgins

McClelland & Stewart, 2001

This book is not intended to persuade you to take up writing novels or short stories – “It’s going to be a lot of work,” Jack Hodgins warns. Nor will it tell you how to market your stories. But it will take you through the problems facing any fiction writer and show you how some of the best writers in English have solved them. The chapters are clear and comprehensive: Finding Your Own Stories; One Good Sentence After Another – on ...

The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (New Canadian Library Series)
Jack Hodgins

New Canadian Library, 1997

When an unknown woman steps off a beached Peruvian freighter and walks into the Vancouver Island town of Port Annie, nothing can ever be quite the same. Stalwart citizens, tired of their milltown routine, grasp at a fresh subject for gossip. Others are suddenly prepared to make momentous decisions. But eccentric old Joseph Bourne, who knows that the endless rain is going to bring a landslide down on the town, is certain that the mysterious woman ...

A Passion for Narrative **ISBN: 9780771041983**
Jack Hodgins

Random House Inc, 2001

The Master of Happy Endings
Jack Hodgins

Thomas Allen & Son, 2010

The Master of Happy Endings is a powerful new novel about memory, belonging, helping others, and the vagaries of the human heart. It is also a compelling story about how a man in his late seventies manages to conjure one more great adventure for himself. Axel Thorstad lives in a shack on a remote island off the coast of British Columbia. Once a popular school teacher and thespian who touched the lives of hundreds of his students, he now ...

The Macken Charm
Jack Hodgins

McClelland & Stewart, 1995

It is the summer of 1956, and although Rusty Macken is eager to leave rural Vancouver Island – and his family – for university, the events of Glory’s funeral will not make it easy. Over the course of a single day, the rambunctious Macken clan gathers at the site of the burned-down seaside hotel that was once the family base to mourn and remember the glamorous city girl who married the wildest Macken of all but never quite adapted to their ...

Story Magazine (Autumn, 1998)
Donald Rawley, Charles W. Harvey, ...

F&W Publications, 1998

The Spells of an Ordinary Twilight (Donald Rawley); Red Underwear (Charles W. Harvey); Astonishing the Blind (Jack Hodgins); Life in the World and Out of It (Jeff MacGregor); Night Sky (Bernard Cooper); The 5:22 (George Harrar); The Ramble (Dika Lam); Killing Stonewall Jackson (Michael Knight); From Where We've Fallen (Hester Kaplan); Name of Love (Janice Daugharty); Africans (Sheila Kohler); The Jewel (Evan Harris); Dochera (Edmundo Paz-Soldan);

Distance
Jack Hodgins

McClelland & Stewart, 2004

A Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year Sonny Aalto, a restless middle-aged businessman, has spent his life running away from those closest to him. When his estranged, larger-than-life father, Timo, becomes too sick to care for himself, Sonny reluctantly returns to his childhood home of Vancouver Island, where he learns his father is not only dying but wants to die on his own terms – with Sonny’s help. But before facing the gravity of ...