הספרים של הוצאת Biblioasis
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In the foreword to his The Collected Short Fiction, Bruce Jay Friedman wrote: "In her late years, my mother confessed to me that she had dropped me on my head when I was two. As I've grown older, I've come to believe that her presumably innocent mistake resulted in the 'tilted' qualit...
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Presenting provocative questions about social exclusion and the role of the media, this title evokes the tenderness of relations among those on society's margins....
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Cynthia Flood's "The English Stories" offers a series of twelve linked fictions detailing the story of Amanda Ellis, a young Canadian girl who goes with her parents to England 'for a year that stretched into two', and her life at St. Mildred's school. Unlike many linked story collections which come ...
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In Anything but Hank! Lebowitz and W...
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Ryszard Kapuscinski's nonfiction is now considered part of the modern canon. But he was also a poet. This work brings together a selection of his poetry in English....
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Rosenblum's stories are urban with a strong contemporary feel. The stories record incidents in the lives of twenty-somethings - students, techies in an office building, a girl toiling in the warehouse of a wholesale fruit and vegetable distributor, a boy who hustles for drug money, waitresses.These ...
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In his sixties, Yeats published the half-dozen poems that drew Crazy Jane out from his imagination to act as a profane voice against the strictures of the Church and the mores of the age. Wayne Clifford, in his sixties, let a lifetime of wondering why Yeats offered so little explanation of Jane's hu...
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In the middle of his life, Robert Lowell wrote "Memories of West Street and Lepke", a poem that reflected on Lowell's recurrent manias and included the lines 'My manic statement'. This is Neilson's manic statement, arching backwards through his personal histories (rural, difficult) and then into the...
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Meet the Perfect Man...no, no, he's not the hero of "Thought You Were Dead". That would be Chellis Beith, literary researcher, slacker, reluctant detective, and a man bedevilled by every woman in his life. There's his lost love, Elaine Champion, a now happily married inventor who uses him for market...
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"Dawdler." "Layabout." "Shit-heel." "Loser." For as long as mankind has had to work for a living, which is to say ever since the expulsion of Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden, people who work have disparaged those who prefer not to. This glossary, which closely examines the etymology and...
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A critical and commercial success in German, "Kahn & Engelmann" tells the story of a Jewish family from rural Hungary, their immigration to Vienna in the great days of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, their loves, business ventures and failings, and their eventual tragic destruction. Narrated by Peter E...
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