| The Rain Barrel Contributor(s): Bowering, George (Author) |
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ISBN: 0889223459 ISBN-13: 9780889223455 Publisher: Talonbooks OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: February 1994 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Short Stories (single Author) - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 94197223 |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.53" W x 8.48" (0.86 lbs) 272 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |