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One Good Story, That One by [Thomas King]

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by Thomas King (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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    160 pages
  2. Language
    English
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  4. Publisher
    HarperCollins Publishers
  5. Publication date
    July 21 2015
  6. File size
    435 KB
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One Good Story, That One, Thomas King's fabulous collection of short fiction, focuses, like his novels, on contemporary First Peoples and their interactions with a sometimes hostile, often misguided, and always different white culture and society. "One Good Story, That One," the title tale in the collection, focuses on a Native elder's brilliant hoodwinking of gullible anthropologists into buying his authentically Native alternative version of the Judeo-Christian creation myth, which mixes the voice of traditional Native oral storytelling with the hijinks of "Ah-damn" and "Evening." These stories are King's riffs on everything from pop culture, Canadian history and First Peoples customs and traditions to the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and trickster tales. King's delicate sense of irony mingles with a madcap sense of humour to concoct short stories that are as hilarious as they are provocative. One Good Story, That One is a waggish collection that makes you hungry for more books by this talented writer. --Jeffrey Canton --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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"There’s a sly, tart intelligence at work in many of these stories. . . . The writing is taut, sharp-edged, and very funny." —Globe and Mail


"These stories clearly display King’s trademark wit and intelligence, his facility with characterization, and his mastery of narrative art." —The Ottawa Citizen
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B010LY0DX8
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperCollins Publishers (July 21 2015)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 435 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 160 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Thomas King is an award-winning novelist, short story writer, scriptwriter, and photographer. His many books include the novels Medicine River; Green Grass, Running Water; Truth and Bright Water; two short story collections, One Good Story, That One (Minnesota, 2013) and A Short History of Indians in Canada (Minnesota, 2013); nonfiction, The Truth About Stories (Minnesota, 2005); and the children's books A Coyote Columbus Story, Coyote Sings to the Moon, Coyote's New Suit, and A Coyote Solstice Tale. King edited the literary anthology All My Relations and wrote and starred in the popular CBC radio series, The Dead Dog Café. He is the recipient of a Lifetime Achievement Award (2003), and was made a member of the Order of Canada in 2004. He has taught Native literature and history and creative writing at the University of Lethbridge, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Guelph and is now retired and lives in Guelph, Ontario.

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