Bill Engleson

Broschiertes Buch

Confessions of an Inadvertently Gentrifying Soul

Beschreibung

Bill Engleson has written a very funny book filled with stories rooted in truth, and leavened with affection. The island, the people, and all that unfolds in between will keep you chuckling as you hang on for the ride. It makes me long to return to Denman." ~ Terry Fallis, two time winner of the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour, "The Best Laid Plans" 2008; "No Relation" 2015. The chapter titles tell us much. "Turnip Love." "Up and Down the Garbage Chute." In fact, the Table of Contents alone may put a smile on your face that will last the whole time you're reading this book -- except when you catch yourself laughing out loud. Bill Engleson is lively, entertaining, wise, and full of surprises. ~ Jack Hodgins, author and winner of the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence 2006; and Order of Canada inductee 2009. "This book is unremittingly mischievous. Its author ought to be exiled, like Napoleon, to some small island off the coast and made to subsist on a diet of boiled turnips and old western movies. Read it and see for yourself." Des Kennedy, author, islander, turnip grower... and award-winning journalist, broadcaster and environmental activist.

Autor

Bill Engleson is a retired social worker, pickleball aficionado, energetic novelist, poet, humourist, essayist, flash fictionist, and engaged community volunteer who lives on Denman Island, a small island located between Vancouver Island and the mainland of British Columbia.Previous to The Life of Gronsky, he had published one noirish novel, Like a Child to Home, which received an honourable mention at the inaugural 2016 Whistler Independent Book Awards. In 2016, Silver Bow Publishing released his second book, a collection of humorous literary essays entitled Confessions of an Inadvertently Gentrifying Soul.Since the fall of 2020, deep into Covid's second wave, his poetry has appeared in several anthologies, including VIRL's Alone but Not Alone Poetry in Isolation (editor Jonathon Bigelow), Drift, Poems and Poets From the Comox Valley (editors Edwin Varney and Daniel J. Kirk), Victoria's Planet Earth's The Sky is Falling! The Sky is Falling! (editor Sheila Martindale), the first and at least one subsequent edition of the Van Isle Poetry Collective (editor, April Hilland).He has a number of other writing projects in the hopper, including a prequel to his first novel entitled Drawn Towards the Sun. For more information, check his twitter, @billmelaterplea, and his occasionally updated website/blog: www.engleson.ca

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Silver Bow Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Februar 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 337g
• ISBN-13: 9781927616222
• ISBN-10: 1927616220
• Artikelnr.: 67467483