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The Rain Barrel: And Other Stories
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The Rain Barrel: And Other Stories Paperback - 1994

by Bowering, George

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  • Title The Rain Barrel: And Other Stories
  • Author Bowering, George
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition Used - Good
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Talonbooks Ltd, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
  • Date 1994
  • Bookseller's Inventory # FORT742678
  • ISBN 9780889223455 / 0889223459
  • Weight 0.86 lbs (0.39 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.48 x 5.53 x 0.8 in (21.54 x 14.05 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: Canadian
    • Topical: Coming of Age
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 94197223
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

From the rear cover

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.

About the author

George Bowering, Canada's first Poet Laureate, was born in the Okanagan Valley.

After serving as an aerial photographer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Bowering earned a BA in English and an MA in history at the University of British Columbia, where he became one of the co-founders of the avant-garde poetry magazine TISH. He has taught literature at the University of Calgary, the University of Western Ontario, and Simon Fraser University, and he continues to act as a Canadian literary ambassador at international conferences and readings.

A distinguished novelist, poet, editor, professor, historian, and tireless supporter of fellow writers, Bowering has authored more than eighty books, including works of poetry, fiction, autobiography, biography and youth fiction. His writing has also been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, Chinese, and Romanian.

Bowering has twice won the Governor General's Award, Canada's top literary prize. In 2019 he received the George Woodcock Lifetime Achievement for an outstanding literary career in British Columbia.