How to Fix your Head
- Publisher
- Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd.
- Initial publish date
- May 2011
- Category
- Essays, Essays
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781894987547
- Publish Date
- May 2011
- List Price
- $17.00
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Description
Whether he is yodelling into construction equipment, or driving his car over thin ice, Lesley Choyce believes that mistakes are what makes life interesting and offer us all a true learning experience. In this hilarious new work, Choyce freely shares his most entertaining misadventures along with some of his best advice on topics ranging from plumbing to bad jobs. With a lively, down-to-earth style and a wonderful talent for observation, How to Fix Your Head is sure to make the idea of self-help a lot more enjoyable.
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.
Editorial Reviews
"If there is a lesson to be taken away from Choyce's own oddball coping mechanisms ... it's that we all need to find a place or activity where we are completely comfortable with letting life happen." - Telegraph-Journal
"This book is smart, engaging and ever so funny even as it offers insight into all of the things that have gone wrong." - St. Albert Gazette
