Jack Hodgins
Jack Hodgins is the author of seven novels, including The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne, winner of the Governor General’s Award, Broken Ground, winner of the Ethel Wilson Prize for Fiction, and Distance; and three books of short fiction. In 2006, he was awarded the Lieutenant Governor’s Award for Literary Excellence and the Terasen Lifetime Achievement Award for an outstanding literary career in British Columbia. He lives on Vancouver Island.
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Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
Trade Paperback | 216 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9397-5 (0-7710-9397-7)
September 7, 2010 | $19.95
Affectionately combining both the idyllic and ironic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock’s most beloved book. Set in fictional Mariposa, an Ontario town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti, these sketches present a remarkable range of characters: some irritating, some exasperating, some foolhardy, but all endearing. Painted with...
Trade Paperback | 216 pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9397-5 (0-7710-9397-7)
September 7, 2010 | $19.95
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Affectionately combining both the idyllic and ironic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock’s most beloved book. Set in fictional Mariposa, an Ontario town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti, these sketches present a remarkable range of characters: some irritating, some exasperating, some foolhardy, but all endearing. Painted with...
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town
eBook | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9425-5 (0-7710-9425-6)
September 7, 2010 | $13.99
Affectionately combining both the idyllic and ironic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock’s most beloved book. Set in fictional Mariposa, an Ontario town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti, these sketches present a remarkable range of characters: some irritating, some exasperating, some foolhardy, but all endearing. Painted with...
eBook | pages | New Canadian Library | Fiction
978-0-7710-9425-5 (0-7710-9425-6)
September 7, 2010 | $13.99
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Affectionately combining both the idyllic and ironic, Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town is Stephen Leacock’s most beloved book. Set in fictional Mariposa, an Ontario town on the shore of Lake Wissanotti, these sketches present a remarkable range of characters: some irritating, some exasperating, some foolhardy, but all endearing. Painted with...
Damage Done by the Storm
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-4153-2 (0-7710-4153-5)
September 4, 2007 | $21.00
Jack Hodgins’s acclaimed short story collection immerses us into the lives of characters at once larger than life and intimately familiar. In the title story, a retired Senator fights his way through a major Ottawa snowstorm to keep a family promise. An orthotics sculptor falls in love with the plaster feet...
Written by Jack Hodgins
Trade Paperback | 224 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction - Short Stories (single author); Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-4153-2 (0-7710-4153-5)
September 4, 2007 | $21.00
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Jack Hodgins’s acclaimed short story collection immerses us into the lives of characters at once larger than life and intimately familiar. In the title story, a retired Senator fights his way through a major Ottawa snowstorm to keep a family promise. An orthotics sculptor falls in love with the plaster feet...
Distance
Trade Paperback | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-4172-3 (0-7710-4172-1)
October 5, 2004 | $21.00
A Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year
Sonny Aalto, a restless middle-aged businessman, has spent his life running away from those closest to him. When his estranged, larger-than-life father, Timo, becomes too sick to care for himself, Sonny reluctantly returns to his childhood home of Vancouver Island, where he learns...
Written by Jack Hodgins
Trade Paperback | pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary; Fiction
978-0-7710-4172-3 (0-7710-4172-1)
October 5, 2004 | $21.00
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A Globe and Mail Notable Book of the Year
Sonny Aalto, a restless middle-aged businessman, has spent his life running away from those closest to him. When his estranged, larger-than-life father, Timo, becomes too sick to care for himself, Sonny reluctantly returns to his childhood home of Vancouver Island, where he learns...
A Passion for Narrative
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Reference - Writing Skills; Reference - Handbooks & Manuals
978-0-7710-4198-3 (0-7710-4198-5)
January 18, 2001 | $22.99
This book is not intended to persuade you to take up writing novels or short stories – “It’s going to be a lot of work,” Jack Hodgins warns. Nor will it tell you how to market your stories. But it will take you through the problems facing any fiction writer and...
Written by Jack Hodgins
Trade Paperback | 320 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Reference - Writing Skills; Reference - Handbooks & Manuals
978-0-7710-4198-3 (0-7710-4198-5)
January 18, 2001 | $22.99
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This book is not intended to persuade you to take up writing novels or short stories – “It’s going to be a lot of work,” Jack Hodgins warns. Nor will it tell you how to market your stories. But it will take you through the problems facing any fiction writer and...
Innocent Cities
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction
978-0-7710-4197-6 (0-7710-4197-7)
September 16, 2000 | $16.99
Set in Victoria, B.C., in 1881, Innocent Cities brilliantly weaves together the lives and lies of an entire community. Logan Sumner is a young widower and architect who dreams of transforming the tiny port city of Victoria into one of the great cities of the world. When he’s not chiseling a...
Written by Jack Hodgins
Trade Paperback | 432 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction
978-0-7710-4197-6 (0-7710-4197-7)
September 16, 2000 | $16.99
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Set in Victoria, B.C., in 1881, Innocent Cities brilliantly weaves together the lives and lies of an entire community. Logan Sumner is a young widower and architect who dreams of transforming the tiny port city of Victoria into one of the great cities of the world. When he’s not chiseling a...
The Macken Charm
Trade Paperback | 280 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Humorous; Fiction
978-0-7710-4196-9 (0-7710-4196-9)
April 15, 2000 | $16.99
It is the summer of 1956, and although Rusty Macken is eager to leave rural Vancouver Island – and his family – for university, the events of Glory’s funeral will not make it easy. Over the course of a single day, the rambunctious Macken clan gathers at the site of the...
Written by Jack Hodgins
Trade Paperback | 280 pages | McClelland & Stewart | Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Humorous; Fiction
978-0-7710-4196-9 (0-7710-4196-9)
April 15, 2000 | $16.99
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It is the summer of 1956, and although Rusty Macken is eager to leave rural Vancouver Island – and his family – for university, the events of Glory’s funeral will not make it easy. Over the course of a single day, the rambunctious Macken clan gathers at the site of the...
Broken Ground
Trade Paperback | 360 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical
978-0-7710-4183-9 (0-7710-4183-7)
August 30, 1999 | $22.99
Broken Ground is a riveting exploration of the dark, brooding presence of the First World War in the lives of the inhabitants of a “soldier’s settlement” on Vancouver Island. From out of a stubborn, desolate landscape studded with tree stumps, the settlers of Portuguese Creek have built a new life for...
Written by Jack Hodgins
Trade Paperback | 360 pages | Emblem Editions | Fiction; Fiction - Literary; Fiction - Historical
978-0-7710-4183-9 (0-7710-4183-7)
August 30, 1999 | $22.99
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Broken Ground is a riveting exploration of the dark, brooding presence of the First World War in the lives of the inhabitants of a “soldier’s settlement” on Vancouver Island. From out of a stubborn, desolate landscape studded with tree stumps, the settlers of Portuguese Creek have built a new life for...
