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That dammed beaver : Canadian humour, laughs and gaffs / selected by Bruce Meyer.

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Exile Editions, 2017.

Canadian wit and humor.

Humorous stories, Canadian.

Short stories, Canadian -- 21st century.

Exile book of anthology series (Exile editions Ltd.)

9781550966916 (pbk.)

xvi, 351 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

[Preface]: Behind the beaver's teeth / Bruce Meyer -- undelivered letters home: from junior midshipman Archibald Ponsonby-Cholmondeley, recovered recently in the search for additional remains of the Franklin Expedition / Bob Armstrong -- August 6, 1921 / Stephen Hayward -- when monsters smoked / Joe Rosenblatt -- Salome was a dancer / Margaret Atwood -- canadoll / Myna Wallin -- how the old man died / Jacques Ferron --the cow that swam Lake Ontario / David McFadden --the story of weasel tossing / Gail Prussky -- that chamionship season / Marsha Boulton -- king log in exhile / Margaret Atwood --the lesson / Andrew Borkowski --the carnation / Louise Maheux-Forcher -- eating around hair: a love story / Shannon Bramer -- strychnine blues / James Dewar -- critics' take: on the premier showing of Tank's documentary of the closing eye / Leon Rooke -- double double an' chocolate glazed / Jamie Feldman -- everlasting love / Claire D©♭ -- timorous in love / Christine Miscione --the ping-pong affair / Larry Zolf -- psyche from here / Anne Dandurand -- narcissistic eb and unlucky flo / Leon Rooke -- 'till death / Julie Roorda --the Canadian accent / Mark Paterson -- Queen Elizabeth visits the Elks bingo hall / Karen Lee White -- lessons in the raising of household objects / Helen Marshall -- doing right / Austin Clarke -- revulsion / Heather Wood --a predicament / Morley Callaghan -- goodbye, God / Marty Gervais -- Saint Augustine / Alexandre Amprimoz --the dead cow in the canyon / Jacques Ferron -- Talmud / Matt Shaw -- it's not easy being half-divine / Margaret Atwood -- conspiracy / Priscila Uppal --the weight of the world / Darren Gluckman -- I am a special booby / Gail Prussky -- three strikes and you're out / Linda Rogers -- peculiar practices in Alberta: (possibly related to the oil boom) / Leon Rooke --the tower of Babel / Jonathan Goldstein --Willard and Kate / Barry Callaghan --the day I sat down with Jesus: on the sun deck and a wind came up and blew my kimono open and he saw my breasts / Gloria Sawai --King Leary / Paul Quarrington -- [Afterword]: Canadian wry / Barry Callaghan.

"Humour is at the core of Canadian identity because we have a truly unique way of looking at ourselves and at the world. Our greatest joy is found in irreverence, poking fun at our own stereotypes - shorts in the snow, beavers in the bush, love in a canoe - or by tweaking the nose of the grumbling giant to the South. We see the chaotic and the absurd all around us, and through irony, parody, and satire we laugh when facing the truth, or at times to avoid crying. This collection of 35 stories showcases the diversity of our amazing sense of humour through all-new short fiction, from a broad spectrum of backgrounds, persuasions, genders, and visions, uniting regional and cultural expression in a way never done before. Bruce Meyer is the author of Testing the Elements, The Arrow of Time, The Madness of Planets, To Linares, and Portraits of Canadian Writers"--Provided by publisher.

Meyer, Bruce, 1957-

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