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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Christie, Michael, 1976-     Subjects     CBC Bookies.     Vancouver (B.C.) -- Fiction.     British Columbia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Christie, Michael, 1976-       by title:      The beggar's garden ...       by call number:      FICTION CHR     Search the Web     Christie, Michael, 1976-     CBC Bookies.     Vancouver (B.C.) -- Fiction.     British Columbia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The beggar's garden : stories / Michael Christie. by Christie, Michael, 1976- HarperCollins, c2011. Call #: FICTION CHR Subjects CBC Bookies.   Vancouver (B.C.) -- Fiction.   British Columbia -- Social life and customs -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781554688296 Edition:  1st ed. Description:  261 p. ; 23 cm. Contents:  Emergency contact -- Discard -- Goodbye porkpie hat -- The queen of cans and jars -- The extra -- An ideal companion -- King me -- The quiet -- The beggar's garden. Summary:  "Brilliantly sure-footed, strikingly original, tender, and funny, this memorable collection of nine linked stories follows a diverse group of curiously interrelated characters - from bank manager to crackhead to retired Samaritan to mental patient to web designer to car thief - as they drift through each other's lives like ghosts in Vancouver's notorious Downtown Eastside. A powerful and affecting debut."--Publisher. Awards:  Winner of the CBC Bookies Award for Best Short Story Collection, 2012. Genre:  Short stories. Short stories, Canadian. Canadian fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Sackville Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION CHR Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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