From the author of the "New York Times" bestsellers "Enemy Women" and "Stormy Weather" comes this stirring work of fiction set on the dangerous Texas frontier in the aftermath of the Civil War.
After her father is taken away by Union soldiers, Adair Randolph Colley, who is 18 at the height of the Civil War, is herself imprisoned on a false charge of spying for the enemy. The prison commander, Major William Neumann, falls in love with her and, just before he is reassigned, helps her escape. Now the two lovers must somehow find each other ...
From the author of the critically acclaimed "New York Times" bestseller "Enemy Women" comes an eagerly anticipated, stirring work of fiction set against the dark days of the Great Depression.
In 1973 Paulette Jiles arrived in Northern Ontario to run a community radio station for the CBC. Romantic notions of primitive life quickly faded in the harsh setting. The first night, her axe bounced off frozen logs, and she would have frozen without a willing husky pup who shared her bed. She relied on helpful neighbors and quickly became a ...
In 1974, when Paulette Jiles was first sent by the CBC to work as a journalist in Big Trout Lake, a village without radio or television in remote northern Ontario, she didn't know a bush plane from a backpack. "North Spirit" is based on the seven years Jiles spent working with the northern Cree and Ojibway peoples, who call themselves Anishinabe. ...
By the highly acclaimed author of the novel Enemy Women Winner of the Governor General’s Award for Poetry, the Pat Lowther Memorial Award, and the Gerald Lampert Memorial Award Now back in print, Paulette Jiles’s celebrated, multi-award-winning poetry collection. These are poems of scorching intensity, which examine the politics ...
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: May 1988
Description: Fine/NF DJ. Maroon Cloth Spine+ green brds; 239pg. Selections from previous books and other heretofore uncollected prose pieces. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf
Date Published: May 1988
Description: Fine/NF DJ. Maroon Cloth Spine+ green brds; 239pg. Selections from previous books and other heretofore uncollected prose pieces. read more
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Rooke, Constance (Editor) (Paulette Jiles; B. P. Nichol; Keath Fraser; John Terpstra; Vivian Marple; Rudy Wiebe; Kim Maltman;...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Digest Magazine
Publisher: University of Victoria
Date Published: 1986
Description: Very Good. 8vo. 160 pp. Light edge and corner wear with creasing at the front hinge. Not store stamped. Cover photograph by Michael Ondaatje. This contains: From Sitting in the Club Car Drinking Rum and Karma-Cola by Paulette Jiles; from Organ Music by B. P. Nichol; Bones by Keath Fraser; from Naked Trees by John Terpstra; Map for the journey that takes 6 days by Vivian Marple; Sailing to Danzig by Rudy Wiebe; Four Poems by Kim Maltman; Poems, with Colour, for Scriabin by Elizabeth Gourlay; ... read more
Edition: First appearance in print of these works
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 1991
Description: Very near fine in glossy stiff wrappers. SIGNED by author first edition-In addition to the contributors shown above, this issue includes work by Blake Nelson, Cooper Esteban, Tom Ahern and others. This copy is SIGNED by Rick Bass at his story "Not Home. " read more
Edition: First appearance in print of these works
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Vintage Books
Date Published: 1990
Description: Near fine in glossy stiff wrappers-some toning to the pages, crease at upper corner of back cover. SIGNED by author first edition-In addition to the contributors shown above, this issue includes work by Mary Leader, Dan Leone, Cooper Esteban and others. This copy is SIGNED by Rick Bass at his story "Fear. " read more
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