Sky Train
eBook - ePub

Sky Train

Stories from CBC's Fresh Air

  1. 180 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Sky Train

Stories from CBC's Fresh Air

About this book

What do Northtrop Frye, French dairy cows, and Historic Fort York have in common? They're all part of Ward McBurney's lyric and personal stories from CBC Radio's Fresh Air, which are now available for the first time in print.

Broadcasting live on Saturday mornings, with Jeff Goodes as host, Ward has been performing his own work for over four years. Sky Train collects 35 of his creative non-fiction pieces, in which Isaac Brock, steam trains, dream trains, Fred Astaire, star fortifications, a tai chi master, truss bridges, ghost soldiers, lost loves, found objects, and, not the least, the author's pet turtle, all find a home.

A spirit of companionship and urban curiosity informs these stories, which cherish the marginalia of everyday life, while revealing that the past is always just around the present corner.

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Information

Publisher
Dundurn Press
Year
2001
Print ISBN
9781550023596
eBook ISBN
9781459721197
Topic
Médias et arts de la scène
Subtopic
Histoire de l'Amérique du Nord

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Foreword
  8. Introduction
  9. Engine
  10. Firebox
  11. Countryside
  12. Couplings
  13. Sleepers
  14. Grand Central Station
  15. Steam
  16. Notes
  17. Index

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