Hodgins, Jack

A Passion for Narrative: A Guide to Writing Fiction - Revised Edition

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A Passion for Narrative: A Guide to Writing Fiction - Revised Edition
Jack Hodgins
Manufacturer: McClelland & Stewart
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Binding: Paperback

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The Stuff of Fiction: Advice on Craft
Blockbuster Plots: Pure & Simple
Pen on Fire: A Busy Woman's Guide to Igniting the Writer Within
The Art of Fiction: Illustrated from Classic and Modern Texts
The Plot Thickens: 8 Ways to Bring Fiction to Life

ASIN: 0771041985
Release Date: 2001-01-18

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This book is not intended to persuade you to take up writing novels or short stories – “It’s going to be a lot of work,” Jack Hodgins warns. Nor will it tell you how to market your stories. But it will take you through the problems facing any fiction writer and show you how some of the best writers in English have solved them.

The chapters are clear and comprehensive: Finding Your Own Stories; One Good Sentence After Another – on the skills of writing well; Setting; Character – how to make your characters come alive; Plot; Structure – “The Architecture of Story”; Point of View and Voice; Metaphors, Symbols and Allusions; Revising – an all-important chapter that also deals with the impact of writing on a computer; The Story of a Story – where Jack Hodgins talks of his own experience with one of his most famous stories; and the final chapter, And Now What? – Creating Your Own Workshop, which builds on the fact that every chapter in the book contains writing exercises to help you work away at home at “the mysterious business of writing fiction.”

As an award-winning novelist and short-story writer Jack Hodgins is uniquely qualified to preach what he practises. As a trained teacher, he has been giving creative lessons for thirty years, at high schools and universities and to writers’ summer schools. In recent years his creative writing courses at the University of Victoria have become discreetly famous. Now, anyone who buys this book can share in the experience of learning fiction-writing from a master.

With its scores of examples of first-class writing this lively, truly fascinating book will almost certainly make you be atter writer; it is guaranteed to make you a better reader.

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Broken Ground
Jack Hodgins
Manufacturer: Emblem Editions
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Green Grass, Running Water

ASIN: 0771041837
Release Date: 1999-08-30

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Broken Ground is a riveting exploration of the dark, brooding presence of the First World War in the lives of the inhabitants of a “soldier’s settlement” on Vancouver Island. From out of a stubborn, desolate landscape studded with tree stumps, the settlers of Portuguese Creek have built a new life for themselves. But when an encroaching forest fire threatens this fledgling settlement, it also intensifies the remembered horrors of war. The story of Portuguese Creek is told by several of its citizens, including a boy trying to recover from the sudden loss of his father, and a former teacher haunted by what happened to the soldiers he led in France. With a memorable cast of characters, and by turns heart-rending and tragic, humorous and humane, Broken Ground is a powerful novel that immerses us in the lives of an entire community.

Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (New Canadian Library)

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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town (New Canadian Library)
Stephen Leacock
Manufacturer: New Canadian Library
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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Nonsense Novels
Arcadian Adventures With the Idle Rich
My Financial Career and Other Follies (New Canadian Library Series)
Literary Lapses
Kafka's Selected Stories (Norton Critical Edition)

ASIN: 0771099843
Release Date: 1989-05-01

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This 1946 adaptation of Stephen Leacock¹s timeless tale is set in Mariposa, a fictional town on the shore of magnificent Lake Wissanotti. This story depicts the comedy of day-to-day life in a bustling small town. This dramatization tells of the amazing foreordained attachment of Peter Pupkin, junior teller in the Exchange Bank in Mariposa, and Zena Pepperleigh, old Judge Pepperleigh¹s daughter. Starring: John Drainie, Peggi Loder, Tommy Tweed and others. Adapted by Max Brathwaite. Produced and Directed by Andrew Allan. Original Music Composed by Lucio Agostini. CBC Stage Series. Originally Broadcast 1946.

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In the city, people never read the newspapers, not really, only little bits and scraps of them. But in Mariposa it's different. There they read the whole thing from cover to cover, and they build up on it, in the course of years, a range of acquirement that would put a college president to the blush. Anybody who has ever heard Henry Mullins and Peter Glover talk about the future of China will know just what I mean.

The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (New Canadian Library Series)

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The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne (New Canadian Library Series)
Jack Hodgins
Manufacturer: New Canadian Library
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Binding: Mass Market Paperback

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Coming of Age in Mississippi

ASIN: 0771098723
Release Date: 1997-10-01

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When an unknown woman steps off a beached Peruvian freighter and walks into the Vancouver Island town of Port Annie, nothing can ever be quite the same. Stalwart citizens, tired of their milltown routine, grasp at a fresh subject for gossip. Others are suddenly prepared to make momentous decisions. But eccentric old Joseph Bourne, who knows that the endless rain is going to bring a landslide down on the town, is certain that the mysterious woman has come looking for him.

Jack Hodgins’ comic masterpiece is filled with social satire, and it is also filled with love, which permits this ordinary town to recollect the past with affection, and to begin its history again.

First published in 1979, The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne won the Governor General’s Award for Fiction.

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Story Magazine [Autumn 1998]
Donald Rawley , Charles W. Harvey , Jack Hodgins , Jeff MacGregor , Bernard Cooper , George Harrar , Dika Lam , Michael Knight , Hester Kaplan , and Janice Daugharty
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000F1CURA

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The Spells of an Ordinary Twilight (Donald Rawley); Red Underwear (Charles W. Harvey); Astonishing the Blind (Jack Hodgins); Life in the World and Out of It (Jeff MacGregor); Night Sky (Bernard Cooper); The 5:22 (George Harrar); The Ramble (Dika Lam); Killing Stonewall Jackson (Michael Knight); From Where Weve Fallen (Hester Kaplan); Name of Love (Janice Daugharty); Africans (Sheila Kohler); The Jewel (Evan Harris); Dochera (Edmundo Paz-Soldan);

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RESURRECTION OF JOSEPH BOURNE
Jack Hodgins
Manufacturer: Macmillan Company
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000QB0VBQ

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Spit Delaney's Island
Jack Hodgins
Manufacturer: Macmillan of Canada
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: B000DELUZM

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Spit Delaney's island: Selected stories
Jack Hodgins
Manufacturer: Macmillan of Canada
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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Spit Delaney’s Island is Vancouver Island, and its settings – the lush green forests, the pulp mills, the all-encompassing sea, and the ferries crossing to the mainland – permeate this stunning collection of short fiction. Opening and closing with stories about Spit Delaney himself, the operator of Old Number One steam locomotive in the local mill, the volume travels between the harsh world of its people’s reality and the comforts of their fantasies.

Humane and compassionate, Spit Delaney’s Island, the first collection of fiction from Jack Hodgins, established him as a writer of extraordinary imagination and dazzling humour.

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Left behind in Squabble Bay
Jack Hodgins
Manufacturer: McClelland & Stewart
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Unknown Binding

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RESURRECTION OF JOSEPH BOURNE
Jack Hodgins
Manufacturer: Signet
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
ASIN: 0772300674

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