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Margaret Atwood's A Quiet Game and other early worksBeing young also means being helpless before the tormenting inequities, inexplicable savageries, and sheer power of our friends, our older siblings, our teachers, and our parents. In this collection of early works, Margaret Atwood never flinches from these truths about the condition of childhood and youth. Edited
by Kathy Chung and Sherrill Grace.
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Marian Engel's Sunbeams from a Golden MachineArt is the most important thing to young Marian Engel, and love a young woman's most dangerous temptation. "One chooses one's models and sets sail," she wrote later. "You set out and eventually become that elusive thing, yourself." These early poems and stories dramatise that process. Edited by Afra Kavanagh and Tammy MacNeil.
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Greg Hollingshead, Carol Shields, Aritha van Herk, and Rudy Wiebe's Early VoicesListen to the "Early Voices" of four of Canada's premier writers: voices from the past that bear all the signs of youth as well as the promise of what would follow. Early Voices is unique in that each writer comments on his or her own youthful beginnings. Edited by T. L. Walters and James King.
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Philip Larkin's Phippy's SchooldaysA perceptive young writer sends up the establishment in a parody of Tom Brown's Schooldays, satirizing school discipline and the lack of it, bullies and goody-goodies alike, in a no-holds-barred put-down of pre-war England. Edited by Brenda Allen and James Acheson.
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Margaret Laurence's Embryo WordsIn these early poems and stories by the young Margaret Laurence, here collected for the first time, we discover the "embryo words" of this first lady of letters that prophesy the features -- love of nature, hatred of war, interest in people, and sense of the individual voice -- that distinguish her mature fiction. Edited
by Nora Foster Stovel and others.
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Margaret Laurence's Colors of SpeechA follow-up volume to Embryo Words: Margaret Laurence's Early Writings, Colors of Speech includes two further lyrics, and Laurence's first professional publication (a story discovered in the Winnipeg Free Press Young Authors Sections). The deeply moving narrative poem "North Main Car" articulates her social vision, and shows the budding novelist at work. Edited by Nora Foster Stovel and others.
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Malcolm Lowry's Satan in a BarrelAt sixteen, Malcolm Lowry was beginning the hard apprenticeship that would culminate in his masterpiece, Under the Volcano--one of the great twentieth-century works of fiction in the English language. These early stories give evidence of his sardonic eye and love of language. Edited by Sherrill Grace.
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Alison White's Pockets Full of StarsA collection of poems for children, by a child, with a Christmas story thrown in. Edited by Arlene Zinck.
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Opal Whiteley's Peter Paul Rubens and Other Friendly FolkThe diary of a child extraordinarily sympathetic to animals and sensitive to poetry. Opal Whiteley amazingly began her diary when she was only six. Her poetic power, her instincts as a story-teller, her fortitude in coping with her mother's abuse, and her loving communion with animals and the natural world make this diary a deeply moving document. Edited by Laura Cappello, Juliet McMaster, Lesley Peterson and Chris Wangler.
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