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The Rain Barrel

By George Bowering

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.

ISBN 13: 9780889223455 | ISBN 10: 889223459
6 W x 9 H x 1 D inches | 272 pages
$24.95 CAN / $19.95 US
Rights: World
Backlist | Fiction | Bisac: FIC029000

QUOTES OF NOTE

Enough irony, subversion and playfulness for any postmodern fan.
— Books in Canada

About the Contributors

George Bowering, Canada’s first Poet Laureate and co-founder of the avant-garde poetry magazine TISH, was born in the Okanagan Valley.

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.

In 2002, Bowering was recognized by the Vancouver Sun as one of the most influential people in British Columbia.

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