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2022. Call No: NEW BLK 781.65 P358b Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Author and radio personality Stanley Péan is a jazz scholar who takes us seamlessly and knowledgeably through the history of the music, stopping at a number of high points along the way. He gets behind the scenes with anecdotes that tell much about the misunderstandings that have surrounded the music. How could French existentialist writer Jean-Paul Sartre have mixed up Afro-Canadian songwriter Shelton Brooks with the Jewish-American belter Sophie Tucker? What is the real story behind the searing classic “Strange Fruit” made immortal by Billie Holiday, who at first balked at performing it? Who knew that an Ohio housewife named Sadie Vimmerstedt was behind the revenge song “I wanna be around to pick up the pieces when somebody breaks your heart?” And since this is jazz, there is no shortage of sad ends: Bix Beiderbecke, Chet Baker, Lee Morgan, to name a few.
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By Homel, David2014., Cormorant Books Inc Call No: QWF Fic Hom Edition: 1st ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: For Bluma Goldberg, the teenaged daughter of a Jewish bootlegger, Prohibition-era Chicago is the furthest place one can get from law and temperance. Her first steps into womanhood are made all the more uncertain by the dangers of her father's shadowy world. Decades later, her loving son, Bobby Krueger - a man coming off his own share of emotional turmoil - remains mystified by the person he's known all his life. Who is she really? Fighting through Bluma's stubborn refusals to cooperate, Bobby pieces together her memories in order to understand the story of the most interesting woman he has ever known. In The Fledglings, David Homel summons complex personalities and weaves them into a vividly-reconstructed historical landscape, taking readers on a fascinating journey into the inner thoughts and intricate relationships of a remarkable character.
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By Homel, David2022., Véhicule Press Call No: NEW QWF Fic Hom Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: When Paul is hired to write a monograph of the Montreal photographer John Marchuk, he assumes he’ll be able to turn over the eccentric project in a matter of weeks. Little does he know that over the next few months his visits with Marchuk, in a house stuffed with boxes stacked floor to ceiling with his life’s archive, will expose an emptiness in his own home.
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By Homel, David2023., Linda Leith Publishing Call No: NEW QWF Bio H Availability:0 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Award-winning author David Homel mixes memoir and fiction, truth and make-believe in these meditations on his youth in Chicago, his education, and the influences that led to his career as a writer.
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[2016], Linda Leith Publishing Call No: QWF Fic Del Edition: ed. Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept is the title of Canadian writer Elizabeth Smart's classic hymn to love, which novelist Angela Carter once described as being "like Madame Bovary blasted by lightning." Later, Carter wrote privately to a friend, saying that she would hate any daughter of hers to have to write such a novel, adding, "By Grand Central Station I Tore Off his Balls would be more like it, I should hope." And now along comes Montreal novelist Martine Delvaux with The Last Bullet Is for You. This stream-of-consciousness novel takes the form a love letter, but it is the last one. One last letter filled as much with the memory of love as the desire for revenge. Love is war, wrote Ovid, and this book is a battleground. Writing is both an act of passion and the means to end it once and for all. Writing is the last bullet, shooting through the love story and into what is left of the lover: a ghost, a fiction. And maybe that's what he was from the start.
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By Homel, David2021., Linda Leith Publishing Call No: QWF Bio H765l Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library
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2012., Talonbooks Call No: QWF Fic Des Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Martine Desjardins delivers to readers of 'Maleficium' the unexpurgated revelations of Vicar Jerome Savoie, a heretic priest in nineteenth-century Montreal. Braving threats from the Catholic Church, Savoie violates the sanctity of the confessional in a confession-within-a-confession, in which seven penitents, each a?icted with a debilitating malady or struck with a crippling deformity, relates his encounter with an enigmatic young woman whose lips bear a striking scar. As these men penetrate deep into the exotic Orient, each falls victim to his own secret vice. One treks through Ethiopia in search of wingless locusts. Another hunts for fly-whisks among the clove plantations of Zanzibar. Yet others bargain for sa?ron in a Srinagar bazaar, search for the rarest frankincense, and pursue the coveted hawksbill turtle in the Sea of Oman. Two more seek the formula for sabon Nablus in Palestine or haggle over Persian carpets in the royal gardens of Shiraz. The men's individual forms of punishment, revealed through the agency of the young woman, are wrought upon their bodies.
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-- Mid way.By Homel, Davidc2010., Adult, Cormorant Books Call No: QWF Fic Hom Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: For the last five years, Ben Allan has successfully kept dromomania the peculiar male hysteria known as the mid-life crisis at bay, even writing an award-winning essay on the subject. But when his fifteen minutes of fame become a countdown to his fiftieth birthday, Ben begins to see his own life reflected in those he has written about. Goaded by his father and colleagues, Ben begins to question why his life has turned out the way it has and what exactly is stopping him from running away from everything he feels is holding him down.
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2010., Exile Editions Call No: Fic Tat Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Tragedy and comedy come together in this bittersweet tale of a childhood in Provence, in southern France, while living under Nazi occupation. Young Dominique was just seven when his father was arrested in May 1943. After his fatherœs arrest, Dominique fled Marseille, now occupied by the Germans. His mother took him and his cousin Gérard to the countryside, to Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, and safety. In this isolated part of Provence, the sound of soldiersœ boots was but a vague echo, and they almost had enough to eat. Sometimes the usual rutabagas yielded to a tasty dish of potatoes not to mention the eggs, bread and goatœs milk the village provided them. In June of 1945, Dominique returned to Marseille to be reunited with his father who had miraculously survived the Nazi camps. But, it isnœt that easy to start life all over again...
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By Homel, David2019., Véhicule Press Call No: QWF Fic Hom Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: David Homel's eighth novel is an exquisitely written, brutally honest, brave work from a two-time Governor General Award winner at the peak of his powers. Phil Brenner has fallen into a slump. All of his life's achievements have somehow crept into disarray. As a freelance journalist, his career pinnacles keep receding in the rearview, as he struggles to stay relevant in a culture that prizes identity over experience. He feels unfairly cast aside by younger generations, designated the very "white male of privilege" he spent much of his youth rallying against. As a husband, he's estranged from his wife, whose job supports the suburban lifestyle he never wanted. As a father, his two daughters repel any attempt he makes to connect. But when a chance arises to cover the refugee crisis in Eastern Europe, Phil seizes the opportunity to reinvent himself into the person he could be, if only he can bring himself to tear down the tired notions of who he has become.
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2019., Talonbooks Call No: QWF Fic Gua Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: "After surviving a major accident, a man is trapped in a village buried in the snow and cut off from the world by a nationwide power failure. He is entrusted to Matthias, a taciturn old man who agrees to heal his wounds in exchange for wood, food, and eventual escape from the village. Will they manage to stand up against external threats and intimate pitfalls?"--.
