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1	Days and Nights in Calcutta more books like this by Clark Blaise add to wishlist An account of a yearlong sojourn in India that balances the viewpoint of a Bengali woman--Bharati Mukherjee--with that of her Western husband, Clark Blaise. Both are well-known writers living in America. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.57! \| signed copies \| first editions
2	Selected Essays more books like this by Clark Blaise, John Metcalf (Editor), J R Struthers (Tim) (Editor) add to wishlist Blaise is a North American treasure, one of a handful of the truly important short-story writers in the last fifty years. His "Selected Essays" bring together for the first time another aspect of his tremendous and courageous oeuvre, belles-lettres, essays and occasional pieces which range over autobiography, his French-Canadian heritage, the ... see all copies from $5.56! new only from $16.17! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Lusts more books like this by Clark Blaise add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	A North American Education: A Book of Short Fiction more books like this by Clark Blaise add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
5	Man and His World by Clark Blaise add to wishlist Out of print. All of these stories have been re-presented in the four-volume Selected Stories currently available from the Porcupine's Quill. see all copies from $2.83! new only from $5.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
6	Time Lord: Sir Sandford Fleming and the Creation of Standard Time more books like this by Clark Blaise add to wishlist This study of Sir Sandford Fleming, a civil engineer and scientist, examines his great role in developing standard global time. He came up with the idea of the 24-hour clock, and with AM and PM, and he proposed and defended his idea in 1884 in Washington, D.C. at the Prime Meridian Conference. Since then, his invention has been used worldwide to ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
7	The Apples of Apollo: Pagan and Christian Mysteries of the Eucharist more books like this by Carl A P Ruck, Clark Heinrich, Blaise Daniel Staples add to wishlist see all copies from $17.99! new only from $32.30!
8	The Sorrow and the Terror: The Haunting Legacy of the Air India Tragedy more books like this by Clark Blaise add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
9	Resident alien more books like this by Clark Blaise add to wishlist "RESIDENT ALIEN" IS THE FIRST BLAISE BOOK TO BE ORIGINATED BY PENGUIN CANADA AND WE ARE PROUD TO WELCOME HIM. "RESIDENT ALIEN" IS AN INTERESTING EXPLORATION OF THE FINE LINE BETWEEN AUTOBIOGRAPHY AND FICTION - NONFICTION ESSAYS SURROUND STORIES THAT IMAGINATIVELY REWORK THE MATERIAL ALREADY PRESENTED. BLAISE ONCE AGAIN LOOKS AT THE SUBEJCT OF ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
10	Time Lord more books like this by Clark Blaise add to wishlist This is the biography of an idea, and the remarkable story of the man who created--and then convinced the world to adopt--a unified standard for telling time. Today we take the accurate telling of time across the world for granted. Yet little more than a hundred years ago, people even in neighbouring towns lived by different time schedules: noon ... see all copies from $4.74! first editions
11	Montreal Stories more books like this by Clark Blaise add to wishlist 'I grew up without a home - what was it, the south, Pittsburgh? - and by my mid-twenties the anxiety had grown palpable. My most potent memories were southern, but the inherited memories were of my parents' Canada, especially Montreal, where they had met and life had taken an improbable turn for both of them. But by 1966, when I moved my family to ... see all copies from $10.09! new only from $14.21! \| first editions \| SVS
12	Pittsburgh Stories more books like this by Clark Blaise add to wishlist 'Written over four decades, "Pittsburgh Stories", is the second in a projected four-volume set of Clark Blaise's selected short stories. Set largely during the forties and fifties, these nine stories, with one exception, are reminiscences about a distant Pittsburgh adolescence. The previous and inaugural collection in the series, "Southern Stories ... see all copies from $13.95! new only from $97.08! \| first editions
13	Southern Stories more books like this by Clark Blaise add to wishlist As novelist Fenton Johnson notes in the introduction to this book, Blaise' portrayal of a dirt-poor South haunted by history belongs to an American literary tradition that includes Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor and Eudora Welty. What needs to be added is that this Southern Gothic tradition has tendrils that reach all the way up to Canada. Aside from ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $16.00! \| first editions
14	If I Were Me by Clark Blaise add to wishlist "If I Were Me" is the culmination of Clark Blaise's career as a geographer of the human heart. In the character of Gerald Lander he has created a modern Faust who carries the world within him, but must travel to learn its meaning. At the age of fifty, Gerald Lander is granted a vision. He reads his future, resolves his past and for ten luminous ... see all copies from $2.39! first editions \| SVS
15	World Body more books like this by Clark Blaise, Michael Augustin (Introduction by) add to wishlist "World Body" is the fourth and final volume of the new and selected stories of Clark Blaise. The first three volumes are celebrations of variant lives within the familiar outline of a not-quite Clark Blaise whom Clark Blaise would nevertheless recognize. In "World Body", it is evident that Blaise's fiction and its autobiographical sources have ... see all copies from $14.91! new only from $14.91! \| first editions
16	The Sociology of Love by Clark Blaise add to wishlist see all copies from $58.71! new only from $58.71!
17	I Had a Father: A Post-Modern Autobiography more books like this by Clark Blaise add to wishlist A prize-winning novelist's journey in search of an elusive parent. Blaise writes that "even now I don't know if my father was sane or disturbed, a victim or a killer. I don't even know if I am his only child". He brings to his journey a novelist's eye, a detective's methodology, and an evocation of place unparalleled in modern letters. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $13.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Time Lord: The Remarkable Canadian Who Missed His Train, and Changed the World more books like this by Clark Blaise add to wishlist This is the biography of an idea, and the remarkable story of the man who created--and then convinced the world to adopt--a unified standard for telling time. Today we take the accurate telling of time across the world for granted. Yet little more than a hundred years ago, people even in neighbouring towns lived by different time schedules: noon ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.90! \| signed copies \| first editions
19 view cover	Lunar attractions more books like this by Clark Blaise add to wishlist David has always been special, attuned to the dark side of things, pulled toward the disturbing undercurrents beneath the slick surface of American life. As a whimsical, misunderstood boy growing up in the Florida backwoods, he maps out a reality less hostile than the snapping gators and insensitive school teachers of his rural home. As an ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.50! \| signed copies \| first editions
20	Tribal Justice more books like this by Clark Blaise add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
21	Personal fictions : stories by Munro, Wiebe, Thomas, & Blaise more books like this by Michael Ondaatje add to wishlist see all copies from $4.95! first editions
22	79 best Canadian stories more books like this by Clark Blaise, John Metcalf add to wishlist see all copies from $4.82! first editions
23	Here & now more books like this by Clark Blaise, John Metcalf add to wishlist see all copies from $8.60! first editions \| SVS
24	Die Zahmung Der Zeit. : Sir Sandford Fleming Und Die Erfindung Der Weltzeit by Clark Blaise add to wishlist see all copies from $40.22! signed copies \| first editions
25	Best Canadian Stories 1979 by Clark Blaise (Volume editor), John Metcalf (Volume editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $12.31!

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