Parkway
(Hammertown, Part 3)
- Publisher
- New Star Books
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2013
- Category
- Canadian
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781554200764
- Publish Date
- Oct 2013
- List Price
- $18.00
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Description
"Hammertown" is Georges Perec's invention, an imaginary fishing port on Vancouver Island that Peter Culley recognized as the Oulipo writer's vision of what Nanaimo might be like. In Parkway, Culley continues his project of describing Perec's Hammertown from the inside. Deeply musical and infused by Culley's love of rhythm, Parkway is an acute and strongly complicit portrayal of a working-class city, and the world of its margins.
About the author
Peter Culley is the author of six books of poetry, most recently Hammertown (2003) and The Age of Briggs & Stratton (2008). He has also written extensively on visual art in various books and magazines for the past two decades. He lives in Nanaimo, BC.