Hitting the Charts: Selected Stories
List Price: $24.95
Price: $18.95
You Save: $6.00 (24%)
List Price:
Price: $18.95
You Save: $6.00 (24%)
Use a high quality dentist mail database from a trusted source. Best value real estate agent email list databases for marketers. |
Rooke Leon
The fall of gravity: A novel
 Price: $123.34 DescriptionFrom a master conjurer of fictional invention comes an irresistible high octane road novel that propels the reader through breathtakingly original landscape replete with unforgettable characters and extraordinary adventures. Raoul Daggle is desperately searching for his disappearing wife on the lam. She has been sighted in a number of different states and provinces. Obsessed, he drives across the continent in his brand new Infiniti 2000 trying to track her down, all the while engaged in the most hilarious dialogue with his precocious ten-year-old daughter Juliette. Meanwhile, his wife, Joyel Daggle, drives madly to escape them across the same landscape but in slightly altered time and space. Told with the inspired wit of a magus in love with a wicked world, this is a deeply affecting magical mystery tour of a dislocated psyche and one family's passage through the dark night of the road into unexpected sunny uplands. Here is the critically acclaimed novelist and short-fiction writer Leon Rooke writing at his very best. "The Fall of Gravity" is a novel to make one whistle and sing with sheer joy of its infectious elan.
Painting the dog: The best stories of Leon Rooke
 Price: $14.99 DescriptionLeon Rooke is one of Canada's preeminent fiction innovators, a master of the short form, and a literary godfather to scores of writers. Here, for the first time, is the quintessential selection of his best short fiction, culled from a prodigious career and 15 story collections. In these beautiful affecting stories, both bittersweet and hilarious, Rooke mines the rich and often turbulent field of domestic life, of relationships between men and women, and of the fragile dislocations of young children. Included are classics such as "The Birth Control King of Upper Volta", "The Women's Guide to Home Companionship" and "Early Obscenities in the Life of the World's Foremost Authority on Heidegger". Always fresh and original, these timeless stories push the boundaries of the traditional short story form. "Painting the Dog" is vintage Rooke: 17 highly original tales brimming with whimsy and wit, pain and poignancy, and the author's endlessly astonishing and electric imagination and riotous humour.
The Beautiful Wife
 List Price: Price: $29.95 You Save: $3.00 (9%) DescriptionViva Straight, a single woman who works for the Refugee Board of Canada, has set off with her mother for their annual holiday in the Dominican Republic when their plane is mysteriously diverted to the Philippines. There she meets and has a night of bliss with the enigmatic Monsieur Epee, who presents himself to her imagination as the ideal man - apart, perhaps, from the fact that he is possessed of a beautiful wife already. So begins Leon Rooke's exhilarating new novel populated by Viva's extended family, numerous beautiful wives, seductive men, an unnusual cat, Father Sin, the Sock People, the author himself and his researchers, a few ghosts, and even the shoe lady herself, Imelda Marcos. "The Beautiful Wife" is an endearing marvel of narrative invention and narrative drive. It explores the quest for love and the mystery of attraction between men and women, celebrating links between art and politics and romantic love. It demonstrates, as well, the miraculous pull of myth and the pure necessity of ideals. Hailed as a national treasure, Leon Rooke is a master conjurer for whom grief, love and laughter are essential ingredients, profoundly mixed. "The Beautiful Wife" is fresh proof of Rooke's own astonishing imagination and the power of love.
Who Goes There
 List Price: Price: $4.90 You Save: $20.05 (80%) DescriptionA year before "Lewinsky" became a household name, Leon Rooke was at work on this novel about an aging right-wing southern senator’s shenanigans with interns; fraudulent Vietnam War heroes; and the real players in the Washington power playpen: the doorman at the Watergate, the local mafia don and his floozies, and the no-neck spin-doctors” who clean up” after the celebrities.
Rooke Leon News
|
|
Fred Tiggelman (links) en Leon Trakzel aan het werk. 'De binnenkant moet als een broodje zijn en smaken.' Foto Marc Driessen Vierduizend klanten worden and more »