Big Burn
- Publisher
- Thistledown Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2006
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781895449433
- Publish Date
- Oct 2006
- List Price
- $11.95
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Description
Set in Canada’s East Coast, this novel from the award-winning and prolific Lesley Choyce grapples with current environmental issues as experienced by two teenagers.
"As with all his young adult books, Big Burn features a strong plot, some conflicts, and a resolution that isnt glib. And there’s that unmistakable gusto for the great outdoors; lots of wind, sun, rocks, ocean and scenery." Halifax Chronicle Herald.
About the author
No one has a clearer view of Atlantic Canada's literary endeavours over the past twenty years than Lesley Choyce. He is the founder of the literary journal Pottersfield Portfolio, and the publisher of Pottersfield Press. He has edited several fiction anthologies and has been the in-house editor of many books from Pottersfield Press including Making Waves, a collection of stories by emerging authors from Atlantic Canada. He is the author of more than fifty books in genres ranging from poetry and essays to autobiography, history and fiction for adults, young adults, and children. Among his recent books are the novels The Republic of Nothing, World Enough, and Cold Clear Morning, and the story collection Dance the Rocks Ashore. Choyce is the writer, host, and co-producer of the popular literary show television program, Off the Page with Lesley Choyce, which is broadcast across the country on Vision TV. He also teaches in the English department of Dalhousie University in Halifax and is leader of the rock band The Surf Poets.
