Quotations For A Nation
The Little Book of Canada
- Publisher
- Arsenal Pulp Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1991
- Category
- General, Quotations
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780889782389
- Publish Date
- Jan 1991
- List Price
- $4.95
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Description
Canada has always been something other than what it might seem to be. This collection is a contribution to the official discussion of who we are.
I don't even know what street Canada is on.
-Al Capone
About the authors
Stephen Osborne was born in Pangnirtung in 1947. In 2004 he was a recipient of the CBC Literary Award, the Vancouver Arts Award for Writing and Publishing, and the National Magazine Foundation Special Achievement Award. He won the first Event Creative Non-fiction Prize, and is an award-winning columnist for Geist magazine, where many of the pieces in Ice & Fire got their start. He is the founder of Arsenal Pulp Press and editor and founder of Geist magazine. His work has appeared in numerous periodicals, and the title story in his collection was translated into Inuktitut and appeared in Inuktitut magazine.
Other titles by Stephen Osborne
The North End Revisited
Photographs by John Paskievich
Anhaga
Pray for Hardship & Other Poems
Fame Us
Celebrity Impersonators and the Cult(ure) of Fame
The North End
Photographs by John Paskievich
The Geist Atlas of Canada
Meat Maps and Other Strange Cartographies
One Ring Circus
Extreme Wrestling in the Minor Leagues
Ice and Fire
Dispatches From the New World, 1988-1998
The Little Grey Flannel Book
Quotations on Men
The Little Pink Book
Quotations on Women
The Little Green Book
Quotations on the Environment