Spit Delaney's Island by Jack Hodgins
Winner of the Eaton's Book Prize and nominated for the Governor General's Award
Spit Delaney's Island is Vancouver Island, and its settings, the lush
green forests, the pulp mills, the all-encompassing sea, and the ferries
crossing to the mainland permeate this stunning collection of short
fiction.
Spit Delaney's Island, a collection of short stories, put Vancouver
Island on the map as a Canadian literary locale and set Hodgins off on
his literary career. Often compared to Faulkner's fiction of the deep
South, Hodgins' stories develop through people who seem to live at the
edge of the world, always in danger of falling off that edge. There is
Spit himself, the keeper of a steam locomotive that has been exiled to
Ottawa for display; there are loggers, country wives, bookstore owners,
and people who live up the mountain in isolated communes. Hodgins' prose
brings Vancouver Island to life in its touch, its taste and the sound
of its dialects -- a determinedly real world. But at the same time he
imbues his people with a sense that there is something more that they
cannot see, but which they sense and strive towards -- a mystery or even
magic that they can almost touch but which remains forever elusive.
Every so often a new writer appears who sets the literary world talking.
Here's what they are saying about Jack Hodgins. Alice Munro: "Jack
Hodgin's stories do one of the best things fiction can do -- they reveal
the Extra Dimension of the Real Place, they light up the crazy
necessities of Real Life." When you read this book you will understand
the excitement
Jack Hodgins was raised in Merville, on Vancouver Island
Softcover: 242 pages
ISBN-10 : 0771098707
ISBN-13 : 978-0771098703
Item Weight : 499 g
Publisher : McClelland & Stewart 1992
Language: : English
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