Quotations For A Nation
The Little Book of Canada
- Publisher
- Arsenal Pulp Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1991
- Category
- General, Quotations
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780889782389
- Publish Date
- Jan 1991
- List Price
- $4.95
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Description
Canada has always been something other than what it might seem to be. This collection is a contribution to the official discussion of who we are.
I don't even know what street Canada is on.
-Al Capone
About the authors
Stephen Osborne was born in Pangnirtung in 1947. In 2004 he was a recipient of the CBC Literary Award, the Vancouver Arts Award for Writing and Publishing, and the National Magazine Foundation Special Achievement Award. He won the first Event Creative Non-fiction Prize, and is an award-winning columnist for Geist magazine, where many of the pieces in Ice & Fire got their start. He is the founder of Arsenal Pulp Press and editor and founder of Geist magazine. His work has appeared in numerous periodicals, and the title story in his collection was translated into Inuktitut and appeared in Inuktitut magazine.