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Alan Cumyn After Sylvia
Groundwood Books 2008 0888998686 / 9780888998682 Paperback New
"Brand New Paperback, clean, tight, unmarked, no spine or cover creases() After Sylvia follows Owen Skye when his true love, Sylvia Tull, moves away. Heartbroken, Owen does his best to get over Sylvia by going from one adventure to another: he adopts a slobbering, bouncy, rock-obsessed hound named Sylvester, runs for class president, and joins his brothers in taking revenge against bossy cousin Eleanor. He even tries learning some new life skills, such as getting Horace to show him how to make the perfect fried egg, or asking Uncle Lorne to demonstrate his famous loon call. Gradually Owen's memory of Sylvia begins to fade. As the new school year unfolds, the magic of the Skye brothers' antic adventures is replaced with a different sort of magic — the magic of stillness that inspires clarity and insight. Owen is growing up, but happily for young readers, he never loses his most endearing qualities — his sweet vulnerability, his impulsive courage, and his gigantic imagination. ID: mon0000031723"
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Alan Cumyn After Sylvia
Groundwood Books 2004 0888996128 / 9780888996121 Hardcover Like New
"Hardcover with dust jacket, Like New, clean, tight, unmarked, slight edge bump at top Young Owen Skye's first true love, Sylvia Tull, is moving away to the small town of Elgin. To distract himself from the heartache, Owen teams up with his brothers and dives into a series of thrilling adventures, including adopting a slobbering, rock-obsessed hound, running for class president, and braving a haunted house in the dead of winter. Along the way, he picks up impressive new life skills, like making the perfect fried egg and mimicking his eccentric Uncle Lorne's famous loon call. But when his memories of Sylvia begin to fade, Owen wonders whether he should try to find her, and what will happen if he does. In After Sylvia, boyish antics give way to more reflective encounters, and Owen learns it will take all of his imagination and courage to face the greatest adventure of all: growing up. With zany humor and touching insight, Alan Cumyn once again captures the full range of childhood's... ID: mon0000009641"
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Alan Cumyn After Sylvia
Groundwood Books 2005 0888996462 / 9780888996466 Paperback Like New
"Paperback, Like New, clean, tight, unmarked, no spine or cover creases, light edge wear.() In this follow-up to the award-winning The Secret Life of Owen Skye, young Owen Skye's first true love, Sylvia Tull, is moving away to the small town of Elgin. To distract himself from the heartache, Owen teams up with his brothers and dives into a series of thrilling adventures, including adopting a slobbering, rock-obsessed hound, running for class president, and braving a haunted house in the dead of winter. Along the way, he picks up impressive new life skills, like making the perfect fried egg and mimicking his eccentric Uncle Lorne's famous loon call. But when his memories of Sylvia begin to fade, Owen wonders whether he should try to find her, and what will happen if he does. In After Sylvia, boyish antics give way to more reflective encounters, and Owen learns it will take all of his imagination and courage to face the greatest adventure of all: growing up. With zany humor and touchi ID: mon0000042286"
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Alan Cumyn After Sylvia
Groundwood Books 2005 0888996462 / 9780888996466 Paperback New
"Clean, tight, unmarked, no spine or cover creases.() In this follow-up to the award-winning The Secret Life of Owen Skye, young Owen Skye's first true love, Sylvia Tull, is moving away to the small town of Elgin. To distract himself from the heartache, Owen teams up with his brothers and dives into a series of thrilling adventures, including adopting a slobbering, rock-obsessed hound, running for class president, and braving a haunted house in the dead of winter. Along the way, he picks up impressive new life skills, like making the perfect fried egg and mimicking his eccentric Uncle Lorne's famous loon call. But when his memories of Sylvia begin to fade, Owen wonders whether he should try to find her, and what will happen if he does. In After Sylvia, boyish antics give way to more reflective encounters, and Owen learns it will take all of his imagination and courage to face the greatest adventure of all: growing up. With zany humor and touching insight, Alan Cumyn once again capt ID: mon0000132874"
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Alan Cumyn Burridge Unbound
M&S 2000 077102486X / 9780771024863 Paperback Very Good
"'() Alan Cumyn's Giller-nominated Burridge Unbound is nothing less than a new plateau in the evolutionary climb of the novel. Cumyn artfully combines the dislikeable, morally dubious protagonist of the 20th- century novel with the emergent political realities of the 21st century, with its shift from international to intranational (and interpersonal) war. Fuse the prickly protagonist of Mordecai Richler's Barney's Version with the new-world politics of Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost (in which rival factions in war-torn Sri Lanka go together on arms deals for bulk discounts), add a page-turning plot, and you'd get the probing, admirable Burridge Unbound. Canadian diplomat Bill Burridge is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time: kidnapped while trying to fix a flat tire on the South Pacific island paradise of Santa Irene and horribly tortured for nine months. While he physically survives the ordeal (performed for motives he'll never know), Burridge does not so easily survive his'''' ID: mon0000077773"
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Alan Cumyn Burridge Unbound
McClelland & Stewart Inc. 2002 0771024886 / 9780771024887 Paperback New
"Brand New Paperback, clean, tight, no spine or cover creases Remainder mark() Alan Cumyn's Giller-nominated Burridge Unbound is nothing less than a new plateau in the evolutionary climb of the novel. Cumyn artfully combines the dislikeable, morally dubious protagonist of the 20th- century novel with the emergent political realities of the 21st century, with its shift from international to intranational (and interpersonal) war. Fuse the prickly protagonist of Mordecai Richler's Barney's Version with the new-world politics of Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost (in which rival factions in war-torn Sri Lanka go together on arms deals for bulk discounts), add a page-turning plot, and you'd get the probing, admirable Burridge Unbound. Canadian diplomat Bill Burridge is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time: kidnapped while trying to fix a flat tire on the South Pacific island paradise of Santa Irene and horribly tortured for nine months. While he physically survives the ordeal (perf ID: mon0000032194"
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Alan Cumyn Burridge Unbound
M&S 2000 077102486X / 9780771024863 Paperback Like New
"First Edition, signed by the author on the title page, clean, tight, unmarked, some light cover edge handling, - JP ID: mon0000148111"
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Alan Cumyn Burridge Unbound
McClelland & Stewart Inc. 2002 0771024886 / 9780771024887 Paperback Like New
"Paperback, Like New, clean, tight, unmarked. (Near Fine), remainder mark, some handling.() Alan Cumyn's Giller-nominated Burridge Unbound is nothing less than a new plateau in the evolutionary climb of the novel. Cumyn artfully combines the dislikeable, morally dubious protagonist of the 20th- century novel with the emergent political realities of the 21st century, with its shift from international to intranational (and interpersonal) war. Fuse the prickly protagonist of Mordecai Richler's Barney's Version with the new-world politics of Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost (in which rival factions in war-torn Sri Lanka go together on arms deals for bulk discounts), add a page-turning plot, and you'd get the probing, admirable Burridge Unbound. Canadian diplomat Bill Burridge is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time: kidnapped while trying to fix a flat tire on the South Pacific island paradise of Santa Irene and horribly tortured for nine months. While he physically survives the ID: mon0000059905"
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Alan Cumyn Burridge Unbound
McClelland & Stewart Inc. 2002 0771024886 / 9780771024887 Paperback Very Good
"clean, tight, has a remainder mark, some light cover edge handling,() Alan Cumyn's Giller-nominated Burridge Unbound is nothing less than a new plateau in the evolutionary climb of the novel. Cumyn artfully combines the dislikeable, morally dubious protagonist of the 20th- century novel with the emergent political realities of the 21st century, with its shift from international to intranational (and interpersonal) war. Fuse the prickly protagonist of Mordecai Richler's Barney's Version with the new-world politics of Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost (in which rival factions in war-torn Sri Lanka go together on arms deals for bulk discounts), add a page-turning plot, and you'd get the probing, admirable Burridge Unbound. Canadian diplomat Bill Burridge is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time: kidnapped while trying to fix a flat tire on the South Pacific island paradise of Santa Irene and horribly tortured for nine months. While he physically survives the ordeal (performed for ID: mon0000123814"
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Alan Cumyn Burridge Unbound
M&S 2000 077102486X / 9780771024863 Paperback Like New
"Paperback, Like New, clean, tight, unmarked. (Near Fine), no spine or cover creases. Remainder mark, some light cover edge wear, some light cover scuffing,() Alan Cumyn's Giller-nominated Burridge Unbound is nothing less than a new plateau in the evolutionary climb of the novel. Cumyn artfully combines the dislikeable, morally dubious protagonist of the 20th- century novel with the emergent political realities of the 21st century, with its shift from international to intranational (and interpersonal) war. Fuse the prickly protagonist of Mordecai Richler's Barney's Version with the new-world politics of Michael Ondaatje's Anil's Ghost (in which rival factions in war-torn Sri Lanka go together on arms deals for bulk discounts), add a page-turning plot, and you'd get the probing, admirable Burridge Unbound. Canadian diplomat Bill Burridge is caught in the wrong place at the wrong time: kidnapped while trying to fix a flat tire on the South Pacific island paradise of Santa Irene and h ID: mon0000065774"
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Alan Cumyn Dear Sylvia
Groundwood Books 2008 0888998481 / 9780888998484 Paperback New
"Paperback, Like New, clean, tight, unmarked, no spine or cover creases, Fiction() Now in paperback, Dear Sylvia is a sequel to The Secret Life of Owen Skye (winner of the Mr. Christie’s Book Award) and After Sylvia. Much to his despair, Owen Skye watches his true love, Sylvia Tull, move away. But he still has the stationery set she gave him for his birthday, so at least he can keep telling her stories, even if it’s only by mail. So Owen begins to write down all the things that are going on: his little brother getting his head stuck in the banister, the disastrous camping trip with his horrible girl cousins, how his new baby cousin will only stop screaming in his arms. But despite his carefully crafted efforts, Owen can’t bring himself to mail the letters. While he knows he’s a born writer, getting the right words onto the page is another story altogether. Young readers can easily identify with Owen as he wrestles with spelling, his insecurity as a writer, and his deep desire to te ID: mon0000009642"
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Alan Cumyn Dear Sylvia
Groundwood Books 2008 0888998473 / 9780888998477 Hardcover New
"New Hardcover with dust jacket, clean, tight, unmarked, (Fine with Fine Dust Jacket), - JP ID: mon0000148285"
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Alan Cumyn Famished Lover
Goose Lane Editions 2006 0864924488 / 9780864924483 Hardcover Like New
"Hardcover with dust jacket, Like New, clean, tight, unmarked, slight edge wear, Fiction In Ramsay Crome, critically acclaimed author Alan Cumyn has created a man of intense appetite: for beauty: for human contact: for life and love. In this much anticipated follow-up to The Sojourn, Cumyn continues the story of Ramsay Crome, an artist who never quite came home from the First World War. The horrors of his years in a German prisoner of war camp continue to haunt him, as does the idealized memory of his long-lost sweetheart, his beautiful Margaret. Upon his return home to Montreal, he meets Lillian, a farm girl from the Eastern Townships and is drawn to her youthful vigour, her innocence, and yes, her beauty. These prove to be a potent elixir and they marry quickly. By the time she is pregnant with their son, she wants nothing more than to escape the dreary poverty of their Depression-era existence and flee back to the farm with her husband and child. She wants him to love only her,... ID: mon0000009522"
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Alan Cumyn Losing It
McClelland & Stewart 2002 0771024894 / 9780771024894 Paperback Very Good
"'() As the title of Alan Cumyn's fifth novel suggests, Bob Sterling is ''losing it.'' Not only does the middle-aged English professor have a drinking problem, but he's also involved in a dangerous liaison with a female student. And then there's his fetish for trying on women's clothing. Told from a variety of perspectives, including Bob's and those of his wife Julia and her senile mother, Lenore, Losing It traces the collapse of a smug academic's secret lives. Cumyn, whose novel Burridge Unbound was a finalist for the Giller Prize, has a lucid, descriptive prose style that owes more to the university farces of David Lodge than to higher-brow novels of the academy such as A.S. Byatt's Possession. Like Lodge, Cumyn sees the humour in the petty hubris of university life. Bob's botched delivery of a paper at the annual Edgar Allan Poe conference and his furtive flight from his department office (while still in drag) are very funny indeed. However, Cumyn's technique of building up comic'''' ID: mon0000077319"
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Alan Cumyn Losing It
McClelland & Stewart 2001 0771024878 / 9780771024870 Hardcover Like New
"Hardcover with dust jacket, Like New, clean, tight, unmarked,() As the title of Alan Cumyn's fifth novel suggests, Bob Sterling is ID: mon0000045453"
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Alan Cumyn Losing It
McClelland & Stewart 2002 0771024894 / 9780771024894 Paperback New
"Brand New Paperback, clean, tight, unmarked, no spine or cover creases Remainder mark() As the title of Alan Cumyn's fifth novel suggests, Bob Sterling is ID: mon0000025893"
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Alan Cumyn Losing It
McClelland & Stewart 2001 0771024878 / 9780771024870 Hardcover Like New
"First Edition, signed by the author on the title page, clean, tight, unmarked, - JP ID: mon0000148090"
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Alan Cumyn Losing It
McClelland & Stewart 2001 0771024878 / 9780771024870 Hardcover New
"First Edition, New Hardcover with dust jacket, clean, tight, unmarked, (Fine with Fine Dust Jacket), - JP ID: mon0000145259"
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