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The Joyful Child
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by Norman Ravvin
Illustrated by Melanie Boyle
From Gaspereau Press
Read and see more at www.ravvinbooks.com
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Lola
by Night
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by Norman Ravvin
ISBN 0-9680457-5-8
CAN $19.95
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Abandoning
her career as a writer
of potboiler romances in Barcelona, Lola Benveniste
reacts to her father's sudden death by travelling
to Vancouver, the city where he spent a secret
year in the 1950s. How are john miller, a scion
of old Vancouver money trying to crack the New
Economy, and his sidekick Neil Simpson, in mourning
over being deserted by his wife-turned-fashion-model,
involved in Lola's father's death? And what is
their connection to Herman Rossman, poet of the
old downtown, who published brilliant work in
the 1940s before vanishing? Lola's entanglement
with these characters takes her to Manhattan,
where Rossman is leading a second life as an East
Village "spoken-word" ranter. Will the
questions of the past and the yearnings of the
present finally be satisfied? Lola by Night
is rich in atmosphere, ironic comedy, and shaggy-dog
mystery - a new and entrancing work from an award-winning
author with a truly original voice.
169 pages
Published by paperplate books
Phone: (416)651-2551
e-mail: info@paperplates.org
mail: 19 Kenwood Ave,
Toronto, Ontario, M6C 2R8
Distributed by Marginal Distribution
Phone: (905) 619-6565
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Hidden
Canada
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By Norman Ravvin
ISBN 0-88995-226-4
CAN $18.95
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Memorable Canadian travel
books tour the surprising and little-seen parts
of the country.
In Norman Levine's Canada
Made Me and Edward Hoagland's Notes
from the Century Before, landscape and
daily life are explored in new ways, to thrilling
outcomes. Norman Ravvin's Hidden Canada:
An Intimate Travelogue is in this tradition.
It explores Mohawk country, the leavings of
the Underground Railroad, downtown Calgary,
squatter shacks in North Vancouver, Jewish farming
colonies in southern Saskatchewan, vanishing
Vancouver bohemia, and what comes after the
cod in Trinity, Newfoundland.
192 pages
Published by Red Deer Press
Distributed by Fitzhenry &Whiteside
www.fitzhenry.ca
Toll-Free Tel: 1-800-387-9776
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Sex, Skyscrapers, and Standard Yiddish
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Stories by Norman Ravvin
ISBN 0-9680457-1-5
$12
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Absurdist, funny, tragic — Norman Ravvin's short stories are exhilarating in their originality. The result of a startling alchemy, they combine old-fashioned fictional values with an off-kilter modernist technique, bringing together the dark old world of Europe and the bright new world of America.
In the title story, a Yiddish typewriter salesman and would-be writer finds unwanted inspiration in the voluptuous Lola. In Expatriate, a businessman wanders through Moscow in search of a painting stolen from his family during the war. And in Doomed Cinema, two New York agents try to buy a historic movie house and move it to an American theme park. The other stories in this remarkable collection are equally surprising and eerily delightful.
80 pages
Published by paperplates books
Phone: (416) 651-2551;
E-mail: info@paperplates.org;
www.paperplates.org
Copies can be purchased directly from the publisher. To obtain your copy by mail, send a cheque or money order for $14.00 [$12.00 plus $2.00 S/H] to:
paperplates books
19 Kenwood Ave
Toronto, ON, M6C 2R8
Distributed to stores by Marginal Distributing.
Phone: (905) 619-6565;
Fax: (905) 619-2903
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A
House of Words :
Jewish Writing Identity and Memory
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ISBN: 0-7735-1664-6
(cloth) CA $80/ US $80/ UK £26.95
ISBN: 0-7735-1665-4 (paper) CA $29.95/
US $29.95/ UK £10.95
Winner of the Morris Winemaker
Prize in Literary Criticism
Koffler Centre of the Arts
Jewish Book Awards Committee (1998) |
A House of Words
Jewish Writing Identity and Memory
by Norman Ravvin
Focusing on the way Jewish history—particularly
the Holocaust—and tradition inform postwar
North American Jewish literature, A House
of Words offers innovative readings of the
works of such influential writers as Saul Bellow,
Leonard Cohen, Eli Mandel, Mordecai Richler, Chava
Rosenfarb, Philip Roth, and Nathanel West.
Norman Ravvin highlights the concerns that these
disparate writers share as Jewish writers and
places their work in the context of the broader
traditions of multiculturalism, postcolonial writing,
and critical theory.
Published by McGill-Queen’s University
Press
www.mqup.mcgill.ca
Distributed by Mc-Gill-Queen’s University
Press
c/o Georgetown Terminal Warehouses, 34 Armstrong
Ave., Georgetown, ON, L7G 4R9
Tel: (905) 873-9781 / Toll free: 877-864-8477
Fax: (905) 873-6170 / Toll free: 877-864-4272
E-mail: orders@gtwcanada.com
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