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    No One
    No One
    No One
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    No One

    By George Bowering

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    A risqu autobiographical novel that fictionalizes the sexual adventures of the authors younger days/strong/p pIn 2012, acclaimed writer George Bowering published emPinboy/em, a fictional memoir of his teenage sexual awakening. With emNo One/em, Bowering returns to play with form and fact in this autobiographical novel that continues the narrators journey in a quest story full of further sexual awakenings as that Pinboy becomes a man./p pA writer called alert, playful, and questioning by emThe/em emGlobe and Mail/em, Bowering infuses this work with sexual politics, romantic and social developments, and a backdrop of ancient themes of homesickness and captivity. Readers may delight in the details of the retelling or perhaps they will be browned off. There are no guarantees. The ending will be a pleasant surprise for readers, patient and otherwise./p

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherECW Press
    Release dateMay 22, 2018
    ISBN9781773051499
    No One
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    George Bowering

    George Bowering, Canada’s first Poet Laureate, was born in the Okanagan Valley. After serving as an aerial photographer in the Royal Canadian Air Force, Bowering earned a BA in English and an MA in history at the University of British Columbia, where he became one of the co-founders of the avant-garde poetry magazine TISH. He has taught literature at the University of Calgary, the University of Western Ontario, and Simon Fraser University, and he continues to act as a Canadian literary ambassador at international conferences and readings. A distinguished novelist, poet, editor, professor, historian, and tireless supporter of fellow writers, Bowering has authored more than eighty books, including works of poetry, fiction, autobiography, biography, and youth fiction. His writing has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, German, Chinese, and Romanian. Talon has published Bowering’s Taking Measures, a collection of serial poems. Bowering has twice won the Governor General’s Award, Canada’s top literary prize.

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