The Rain Barrel Paperback - 1994

Name: The Rain Barrel
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Author: George Bowering
ISBN: 9780889223455

by George Bowering

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From the publisher

Here are twenty-one user-friendly tales, set in the Okanagan Valley, Austria, Washington, Nanaimo, the Yukon, Iceland, Germany, the future -- and Daphne's Lunch Diner. The Rain Barrel is George Bowering's first collection of short stories since 1983. Ten years in the making, these stories display Bowering's meticulous attention to the details of his craft and his enormous sympathy for the increasingly precarious predicament of the twentieth-century reader.

From the rear cover

Here are twenty-one user-friendly tales, set in the Okanagan Valley, Austria, Washington, Nanaimo, the Yukon, Iceland, Germany, the future - and Daphne's Lunch Diner. The Rain Barrel is George Bowering's first collection of short stories since 1983. Ten years in the making, these stories display Bowering's meticulous attention to the details of his craft and his enormous sympathy for the increasingly precarious predicament of the twentieth-century reader.

Details

Title The Rain Barrel
Author George Bowering
Binding Paperback
Edition First Edition
Pages 272
Volumes 1
Language ENG
Publisher Talonbooks, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Date 1994
ISBN 9780889223455 / 0889223459
Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
Dimensions 8.48 x 5.53 x 0.8 in (21.54 x 14.05 x 2.03 cm)
Themes
- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Cultural Region: Canadian
- Topical: Coming of Age
Library of Congress Catalog Number 94197223
Dewey Decimal Code FIC

About the author

George Bowering, Canada's first Poet Laureate, was born in the Okanagan Valley.

After serving as an aerial photographer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Bowering earned a BA in English and an MA in history at the University of British Columbia, where he became one of the co-founders of the avant-garde poetry magazine TISH. He has taught literature at the University of Calgary, the University of Western Ontario, and Simon Fraser University, and he continues to act as a Canadian literary ambassador at international conferences and readings.

A distinguished novelist, poet, editor, professor, historian, and tireless supporter of fellow writers, Bowering has authored more than eighty books, including works of poetry, fiction, autobiography, biography and youth fiction. His writing has also been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, Chinese, and Romanian.

Bowering has twice won the Governor General's Award, Canada's top literary prize. In 2019 he received the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement for an outstanding literary career in British Columbia.