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The barefoot bingo caller : a memoir / Antanas Sileika. by Sileika, Antanas, 1953- ECW Press, 2017. Call #: 921 S582b Subjects Sileika, Antanas, 1953-   Novelists, Canadian -- 21st century -- Biography.   Authors, Canadian -- 21st century -- Biography.   Lithuanian Canadians -- Biography. ISBN:  9781770413429 (pbk.) Description:  225 pages ; 22 cm Summary:  A rollicking memoir through the shifting zeitgeist of the last five decades In The Barefoot Bingo Caller, Antanas Sileika finds what's funny and touching in the most unlikely places, from the bingo hall to the collapsing Soviet Union. He shares stories that span his attempts to shake off his suburban, ethnic, folk-dancing childhood to his divided allegiance as a Lithuanian-Canadian father. Antanas has a keen eye for social comedy, bringing to life such memorable characters as ageing beat poets, oblivious college students, the queen of the booze cans, and an obdurate porcupine. Passing through places as varied as the prime minister's office and the streets of Paris, these wry and moving dispatches on work and family, art, and identity are ones to be shared and savoured. Canadian novelist and critic Antanas Sileika was born in Weston, Ontario - the son of Lithuanian-born parents. He taught at Humber College and was co-editor of the Canadian literary journal, Descant until 1988. His novels include Dinner at the End of the World (1994): a speculative story set in the aftermath of global warming, a collection of linked short stories, Buying On Time (1997) which traces the lives of a family of immigrants to a Canadian suburb between the fifties and seventies, Woman in Bronze (2004) which compared the seasonal life of a young man in Czarist Lithuania with his subsequent attempts to succeed as a prominent sculptor in Paris in the twenties, and Underground (2011): a love story set in the underground resistance to the Soviet Union in the late 1940s. Genre:  Memoirs. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Musquodoboit Harbour Public Library Adult Nonfiction 921 S582b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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