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Desire Lines

by (author) Glen Downie

Publisher
Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd.
Initial publish date
Jan 2003
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780919897847
    Publish Date
    Jan 2003
    List Price
    $15.00

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Where to buy it

Out of print

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Description

Redraw your map of Europe. Florence is now an eye blink from Milan, (Ohio); Seville is a heartbeat away from Sudbury, (Ontario). Via Glen Downie's Desire Lines, a Europe seen to death regains its power to unsettle and personally provoke. This continental ramble offer brushes with the living and the dead, the famous and the humble. Pack your bags, and hold onto your hat.

About the author

Glen Downie worked in cancer care in Vancouver for many years, and now lives in Toronto (and at www.glendownie.com). He served a term as Writer-in-Residence at Dalhousie University's Medical Humanities Program, and won the Toronto Book Award for his 2007 Loyalty Management. He has letterpress-printed signed broadsides by Canadian and American poets (available through www.talltreepress.com). His most recent collection is Democratic Beauties, published by Tightrope Books.

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