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Yellow Pages

by (author) Nicole Markotić

Publisher
Red Deer Press
Initial publish date
Sep 2002
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780889951327
    Publish Date
    Sep 2002
    List Price
    $6.95

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A novel that travels through the life and mind of Alexander Graham Bell the man whose little contraption" changed the way the world communicates.

Reviews

"These fictions set the stage for revisionist possibilities by cracking the sacred seal of Canadian historiography."
-Border Crossings

"Markotic proves to be a good story-teller, a philosopher, and a poet, a rare but engaging combination."
-University of Toronto Quarterly

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About the author

Nicole Markotic is a poet, novelist, and critic. Her poetry books include Bent At the Spine (BookThug), Minotaurs & Other Alphabets, and Connect the Dots (Wolsak & Wynn); her novels are Yellow Pages (Fitzhenry & Whiteside) and Scrapbook of My Years as a Zealot (Arsenal Pulp Press). She has edited a collection of poetry by Dennis Cooley, By Word of Mouth, co-edited (with Sally Chivers) an anthology of essays concerning representations of disability, The Problem Body: Projecting Disability on Film, is working on a critical book on disability and literature (McFarland & Co), and has an edited collection of essays on Robert Kroetsch (forthcoming with Guernica). She has published in literary journals in Canada, the USA, Australia, and Europe (including The Capilano Review, CV2, filling Station, New American Writing, Open Letter, Prairie Fire, Rampike, and West Coast Line). She won the bpNichol Poetry Chapbook Award in 1998, and was nominated for the Stephan G. Stephansson Poetry Book of the Year Award and for the Henry Kreisel First Book of the Year Award. She edits the chapbook series, Wrinkle Press (publishing such poets as Robert Kroetsch, Nikki Reimer, and Fred Wah), and has worked as an editor for Red Deer Press and NeWest Press. Currently, Nicole Markotic is Professor of Creative Writing, Children’s Literature, and Disability Studies at the University of Windsor.

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