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A treasure chest of exceptional stories by one of Canadas classic authorsall now available in one volume.
Ernest Buckler, best known as the author of the Canadian classic,
The Mountain and the Valley, never achieved the lasting fame he deserved. His first story was published in
Esquire, a significant American literary magazine known for publishing leading writers such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Sinclair Lewis. Over the years, nearly forty more of Buckler's short stories were published in several popular magazines, including
Maclean's where his story "The Quarrel" won first prize for fiction.
In
Thanks for Listening: Stories and Short Fictions by Ernest Buckler, Marta Dvorák gathers together many of those stories as well as some previously unpublished pieces. At times she has chosen to include the fuller, original versions, and has reinstated some of the lost passages that were cut from stories to fit popular magazine requirements.
Ernest Buckler's writing is rooted in the magic of the ordinary. He celebrates the land and its community, and sensuously recreates a paradise - almost a Garden of Eden. Buckler's American editors were right in believing that no one evoked the lost world of North Americas agrarian past better than Ernest Buckler.
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Table of Contents for
Thanks for Listening: Stories and Short Fictions by Ernest Buckler selected and edited by Marta Dvorák
Introduction
I. Stories
Just Like Everyone Else
The Balance
Children
The Harness
A Present for Miss Merriam
The Clumsy One
Cleft Rock, with Spring
The Wild Goose
Goodbye, Prince
It Was Always Like That
The Quarrel
The First-born Son
Return Trip to Christmas
The Locket
The Choice
Thanks for Listening
Glance in the Mirror
Another Christmas
No Matter Whos There
The Christmas Order
Penny in the Dust
The Finest Tree
The Dream and the Triumph
The Bars and the Bridge
2. Short Fictions
Long, Long after School
Humble Pie
Nettles into Orchids
The Doctor and the Patient
You Could Go Anywhere Now
The Snowman
The Orchard
No Tongue for It
The Widow
Muse in Overalls
Education at Mimis
Squares
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Ernest Buckler (1908-1984) was born in West Dalhousie, Nova Scotia. He spent most of his life writing and farming in the Annapolis Valley, and died in Bridgetown, Nova Scotia.
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A treasure chest of exceptional stories by one of Canadas classic authors - all now available in one volume. Marta Dvoák gathers together Ernest Buckler’s best stories, including some previously unpublished pieces.
