Clark Blaise: 4 books
by Clark Blaise
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Shortlisted for the 2011 Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize2011 Scotiabank Giller Prize NomineeLonglisted for the Frank O'Connor Short Story Award"Clark Blaise’s brilliantly imagined The Meagre Tarmac is a novel in short-story form, warmly intimate, startling in its quick jumps...
by Clark Blaise
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
The first novel (pub. originally in 1979) from Clark Blaise
Like some of his most compelling short stories, Lunar Attractions draws on Clark's experience of growing up poor in the deep South (i.e. Florida swamplands)
Tells a story much like Clark's life: sickly boy, son of a handsome,...
Time Lord
Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2011
It is difficult today to imagine life before standard time was established in 1884. In the middle of the nineteenth century, for example, there were 144 official time zones in North America alone. The confusion that ensued, especially among the burgeoning railroad companies, was an hourly comedy of...
by Clark Blaise
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2009
Clark Blaise's Selected Essays brings together another aspect of his tremendous and courageous oeuvre: belle lettres, essays and occasional pieces which range over autobiography, his French-Canadan heritage, the craft of fiction, American fiction, Australian fiction, and the work of such individual...