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CANADA READS 2008: Winnipeg Edition (Presentation and Discussion)
Thursday Feb 28 2008 8:00 pm, Winnipeg, Grant Park, in Prairie Ink Restaurant

Join in this celebration of Canadian literature. Host Ron Robinson welcomes five dynamic presenters to defend their selection from the 2008 CBC Canada Reads list. The audience will get their chance to ask the hard questions and to cast a vote on which book should win the title. Before the night is done, we will know what Winnipeg prefers to read.

List of 2008 Contenders:

King Leary by Paul Quarrington (Random)

Advocated by Jem Rolls, Performance Poet and 5 star Fringe Veteren, hailing from England.

Not Wanted on the Voyage by Timothy Findley (Penguin)

Advocated by Lesley Hughes, journalist, broadcaster, outspoken media activist and humorist.

Brown Girl in the Ring by Nalo Hopkinson (HB Fenn)

Advocated by Anita Daher, Author of Young Adult Novels, Recipient of the 2007 John Hirsch Award for Most Promising Manitoba Writer.

Icefields by Thomas Wharton (Newest)

Advocated by Kathy Strub, McNally Robinson Book Club mediator and facilitator of book talks throughout the city.

From the Fifteenth District by Mavis Gallant (McClelland & Stewart/Random)

Advocated by Morley Walker, Winnipeg Free Press columnist and book reviewer.

See:
Not Wanted on the Voyage - trade paperback
By Timothy Findley - $19.00 - add to cart

Not Wanted on the Voyage is the story of the great flood and the first time the world ended. It is a brilliant, unforgettable drama filled with an extraordinary cast of remarkable charact...

 

From the Fifteenth District - trade paperback
By Mavis Gallant - $18.99 - add to cart

Set in Europe in the aftermath of the Second World War, the nine stories in this glittering collection reflect on the foibles and dilemmas of human relationships. An English family goes t...

 

Brown Girl in the Ring - trade paperback
By Nalo Hopkinson - $15.95 - add to cart

This is Nalo Hopkinson's debut novel, which came to attention when it won the Warner Aspect First Novel Contest. It tells the story of Ti-Jeanne, a young woman in a near-future Toronto th...

 

Icefields - trade paperback
By Thomas Wharton - $18.95 - add to cart

At a quarter past three in the afternoon, on August 17, 1898, Doctor Edward Byrne slipped on the ice of Arcturus glacier in the Canadian Rockies and slid into a crevasse... Nearly six...

 

King Leary - trade paperback
By Paul Quarrington - $19.95 - add to cart

Winner of CBC's Canada Reads 2008.Percival Leary was once the King of the Ice, one of hockey’s greatest heroes. Now, in the South Grouse Nursing Home, where he shares a room with Edmund “...

 






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