Jack Hodgins
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 .. [... more]
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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
 Amazon.ca: Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is one of Canada's classic works of literature, and perhaps its most complex work of satire. A series of linked stories chronicling life in the fictional community of Mariposa--modelled on Orillia, Ontario-- [... more]
CDN$12.95
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The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne
Amazon.ca: The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne opens in the wake of a tidal wave, sent by an Alaskan earthquake, that has left the northern Vancouver Island town of Port Annie strewn with kelp and sea debris and thrown a Peruvian freighter into a log boom [... more]
CDN$8.95
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Damage Done by the Storm
Author: Jack Hodgins Binding: Hardcover Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780771041525 ISBN: 0771041527 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 2004-09-14 Release Date: 2004-09-14 [... more]
CDN$32.99
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The Invention of the World
Amazon.ca: With a rare understanding of the self-mythologizing qualities of rural Canadian life, Jack Hodgins pitches The Invention of the World somewhere between earnest reportage and a curmudgeon's tall tales. From its beginning at a round of loggers' [... more]
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Spit Delaney's Island: Selected Stories
Jack Hodgins' Island: Okay, first off, I stole the title of my review. It was the title of a piece that Canada's National Film Board made about Jack Hodgins and his work, particularly Spit Delaney's Island. One of the most important measures of a book is [... more]
CDN$6.95
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Innocent Cities
Amazon.ca: Jack Hodgins is known for his daring feats of genre-blending, and he is at this favoured pastime once again in Innocent Cities, simultaneously a neo-Victorian melodrama, a homegrown satire in the spirit of Stephen Leacock's Sunshine Sketches [... more]
CDN$16.99
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Distance
Amazon.ca: In Distance, his ninth work of fiction, Jack Hodgins weaves together the story of Sonny Aalto, 50, a successful Ottawa businessman; his father, Timo, a gruff drinker who reads Russian novels and lives on Vancouver Island; and his mother, who [... more]
CDN$21.00
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Damage Done by the Storm
Author: Jack Hodgins Binding: Paperback EAN: 9780771041532 ISBN: 0771041535 Number Of Pages: 224 Publication Date: 2007-09-04 Release Date: 2007-09-04 [... more]
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A Passion for Narrative: A Guide to Writing Fiction - ...
helpful for my writers craft class,: There were too many jumps and blotches between Jack Hodgins' wrtten words and the paraphrases. Very useful for the short story segment in OAC Writers Craft with Mr. Gorman. Many thanks for a much used book. Author: [... more]
CDN$22.99
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The Macken Charm
A family madness . . .: Writing of events in small, isolated communities is inherently difficult. While many books are produced depicting that environment, the results are too often contrived stories, lacking reality. The true existence of such [... more]
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Broken Ground
Amazon.ca: The northern reaches of Vancouver Island might seem like an incongruous setting for a novel about the First World War--after all, the area was all but unsettled before 1918. As troops were demobilized, however, the Canadian government showed [... more]
CDN$21.00
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