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Burrard Inlet
Tyler Keevil
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Description for Burrard Inlet
Paperback. Burrard Inlet is the body of water that divides Vancouver's North Shore from the rest of the Lower Mainland. In this collection of award-winning stories, Tyler Keevil uses that rugged landscape as a backdrop for characters who are struggling against the elements, each other, and themselves. Num Pages: 170 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 127 x 204 x 16. Weight in Grams: 218.
Burrard Inlet is the body of water that divides Vancouver's North Shore from the rest of the Lower Mainland. In this collection of award-winning stories, Tyler Keevil uses that rugged landscape as a backdrop for characters who are struggling against the elements, each other, and themselves. A search-and-rescue volunteer looks for a missing snowboarder on Christmas Eve; two brothers retreat to the woods to shoot a film in memory of their dead friend; a reclusive forestry worker picks up a hitcher on his way down Mount Seymour; a young man finds a temporary haven on the ice barge where he ... Read more
Burrard Inlet is the body of water that divides Vancouver's North Shore from the rest of the Lower Mainland. In this collection of award-winning stories, Tyler Keevil uses that rugged landscape as a backdrop for characters who are struggling against the elements, each other, and themselves. A search-and-rescue volunteer looks for a missing snowboarder on Christmas Eve; two brothers retreat to the woods to shoot a film in memory of their dead friend; a reclusive forestry worker picks up a hitcher on his way down Mount Seymour; a young man finds a temporary haven on the ice barge where he ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Parthian Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
170
Condition
New
Number of Pages
170
Place of Publication
Cardigan, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781908946898
SKU
V9781908946898
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Ref
99-30
About Tyler Keevil
Originally from Vancouver, Tyler Keevil first came to the UK in 1999 to study English at Lancaster University. He currently lectures in Creative Writing at the University of Gloucestershire. He has published short fiction in a variety of magazines on both sides of the Atlantic, including New Welsh Review, On Spec, Transmission, Brace and Planet, while a translation of his ... Read more
Reviews for Burrard Inlet
'Beneath the deceptively calm surface of these spare and beautiful stories, mad passions boil. There is a transatlantic tradition of studying the interaction between men and nature, in such figures as Hemingway, Carver, McGuane; now Keevil extends and enriches that lineage. He truly is that good.' Niall Griffiths