Abbey
Selections 1959-1989
- Publisher
- Ronsdale Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1989
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780921870043
- Publish Date
- Jan 1989
- List Price
- $12.95
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Description
This selected edition contains the strongest and most comprehensive collection of Lloyd Abbey's work to date. Writing frequently about animals and insects, Abbey takes us inside their consciousness, allowing us to see anew the world through their eyes. Author of the best-selling novel The Last Whales, Abbey is emerging as a major talent in Canadian literature.
About the author
Lloyd Abbey was born in London, Ontario on April 4, 1943 and grew up in rural Ontario. Educated at McMaster, Western, and the University of Toronto, he worked for many years as a professor, most recently in the English Department at the University of Toronto. For several years he has done intensive research on whales and a novel on whales and whaling will be published in 1990 by Grove Press and Random House of Canada. Since 1959 he has been publishing poems, stories, reviews and critical essays in major journals in the USA and Canada. He lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he writes full-time.