The Summer Book
A bright collection of creative non-fiction
- Publisher
- Mother Tongue Publishing
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2017
- Category
- Canadian, Essays
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781896949611
- Publish Date
- Jun 2017
- List Price
- $24.95
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“I have only to break into the tightness of a strawberry, and I see summer – its dust and lowering skies.” –Toni Morrison
“The summer night is like a perfection of thought.” –Wallace Stevens
“I wonder what it would be like to live in a world where it was always June.”–L.M. Montgomery
Focusing on the joys of summer, The Summer Book features new creative non-fiction by twenty-four exceptional and award-winning British Columbian writers: warm and wonderful tales, meditations on nature, memories, humour and seasonal anticipations. The Summer Book – a refreshing collection readers can relax and dip into, anytime of year. A small positive treasure in this complex crazy century.
Contributions by Luanne Armstrong, Kate Braid, Brian Brett, Anne Cameron, Trevor Carolan, Claudia Cornwall, Daniela Elza, Carla Funk, Jane Hamilton, Eve Jospeh, Des Kennedy, Theresa Kishkan, Chelene Knight, Fiona Lam, Grant Lawrence, J.J. Lee, Sarah De Leeuw, Peter Levitt, Christine Lowther, Pearl Luke, Susan McCaslin, Briony Penn, D.C. Reid, and Harold Rhenisch. Drawings by Gary Sim, Peter Haase, and Briony Penn.
About the author
Mona Fertig's father, George Fertig (1915-1983), was one of the unheralded artists of BC and she grew up acutely aware of the politics of art. The Life and Art of George Fertig took her 15 years to research and write. This led her to publish the UABC series, written by authors; Adrienne Brown, Peter Busby, Claudia Cornwall, Christina Johnson-Dean, Eve Lazarus, Kerry Mason, Wendy-Newbold Patterson, Sheryl Salloum and Monika Ullmann. Fertig was made a Vancouver Literary Landmark in 2017. There was a retrospective of George Fertig's work at the Burnaby Art Gallery in 2010.
Other titles by Mona Fertig
A Pocket Guide to The Unheralded Artists of BC Series
The Life and Art of–Jack Akroyd, George Fertig, Mary Filer, Jack Hardman, Edythe Hembroff-Schleicher, LeRoy Jensen, David Marshall, Frank Molnar, Arthur Pitts, Mildred Valley Thornton, Ina D.D. Uhthoff, Harry Webb, Jessie Webb
Love of the Salish Sea Islands
New Essays, Memoir and Poetry by 40 Island Writers
The Life and Art of George Fertig
Rocksalt
An Anthology of Contemporary BC Poetry
