Canadian Fiction from Louise Aird

This is a first edition of The Vanishing Point, the third novel by the Canadian writer W.O. Mitchell (1914-1998), best known for his famous book Who Has Seen the Wind. It is a controversial novel about white-native relations; it is about a white teacher working on the Paradise Reserve in the Alberta foothills who must search for his prize pupil when… Read more about this item

This is a near-perfect first edition of Oryx & Crake, by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood. It is the first book of her trilogy about a biological tragedy; it's followed by The Year of the Flood and MaddAdam. This book does not appear to have been read but there is a little fading to the edges of the cover. Other than… Read more about this item

This is a mint-condition first edition of The Selected Journals of L.M. Montgomery, Volume III, 1921-1929. It is volume 3 of 5 of the diaries of the Canadian writer Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942), who is best known for writing the Anne of Green Gables series. It is 443 pages, including 98 photographs, a map and 2 drawings. This copy is pristine: there… Read more about this item

This is a pristine first edition, 17th Canadian printing, of MaddAdam, by the Canadian author Margaret Atwood. It is the third book of her trilogy about a biological tragedy, following Oryx & Crake and The Year of the Flood and was published in 2013. This book has never been read, or even opened. It is in mint condition. I have a… Read more about this item

This is a stated first edition of Dressing Up for the Carnival, written by the Pulitzer Prizing-winning Canadian author Carol Shields (1935-2003). It is a collection of connected short stories, about people who live their lives through illusions. This book has not been read, or even opened. The original book mark from the book store is still in it. It is in… Read more about this item

This is a first edition of The Iowa Baseball Confederacy, a 1986 novel written by the Canadian author W.P. Kinsella (1935-2016). Kinsella is best known for his novel Shoeless Joe, which became the film Field of Dreams. The Iowa Baseball Confederacy tells the story of Gideon Clark, a man on a quest. He is out to prove to the world… Read more about this item

This is a first reprint of the Oxford Book of Humorous Prose, a 'Conducted Tour' by the English comedy writer Frank Muir (1920-1998). It is not a true anthology; it is a stroll through various humorists of various nationalities writing in English: the standard (Dickens, Twain), the expected (Dorothy Parker, Benchley, Shaw), the unexpected (Edgar Allen Poe, George Eliot), the well-known… Read more about this item

This is the fifth novel from the brilliant Canadian novelist Gail Anderson-Dargatz, published in 2016. It takes place in the Thompson-Shuswap region of British Columbia, specifically around a bend in the river where the salmon run. On one side of the river is a ranch once owned by Eugene Robertson, who came in the gold rush around 1860. On the other… Read more about this item

This is a pristine first edition of the book club edition of Rachel, Rachel, published by Knopf in 1968. The book was the award-winning third novel by renowned Canadian author Margaret Laurence, and was originally published in 1966. It is about the sexual awakening of a 30-something New England schoolteacher. Its original title was A Jest of God.… Read more about this item

Saul Bellow (1915 –2005) was a Canadian-American writer and academic who won the 1976 Nobel Prize, as well as a Pulitzer. He is the only writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction three times. Bellow wrote 14 novels; More Die of Heartbreak was his 10th. It is the story of an intellectually gifted and philosophically tortured man attempting to… Read more about this item

This is a first edition (1991) of Murther and Walking Spirits, the second-last novel by the brilliant Canadian novelist Robertson Davies (1913-1995). It is a ghost story; after a film critic is murdered, his ghost attends a strange film festival. While the attendees see actual films, the critic's ghost sees films detailing the lives of his ancestors—one was a Tory… Read more about this item

The Love of a Good Woman is a collection of short stories by Canadian writer Alice Munro (1931 - ), who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2013. The eight stories of this collection, was which published by McClelland and Stewart in 1998 after originally appearing in Saturday Night and The New Yorker), deal with Munro's typical themes: secrets, love,… Read more about this item

This is two matching paperbacks of early works of the Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler (1931-2001).They're a bit hard to find. Son of a Smaller Hero is Richler's 2nd novel, published in 1955. It is gritty and realistic and is about an idealistic young Jewish man rebelling against the social and cultural divides in Montreal. A Choice of Enemies is his 3rd novel,… Read more about this item

Stephen Leacock (1869-1944) was a Canadian teacher, political scientist, writer, and humorist. From 1915 to1925, he was the best-known English-speaking humorist in the world. He is famous for his not-unkind criticisms of people's follies and foibles and is still called 'the funniest man who ever lived.' Leacock wrote 22 works of non-fiction, 2 biographies and 29 novels; Model Memoirs is his… Read more about this item