Lesley Choyce

Auteur van Sudden Impact

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Lesley Choyce was born in New Jersey in 1951 and moved to Canada in 1978. Choyce teaches part-time at Dalhousie University, runs Pottersfield Press and has written 40 adult and young adult books. Choyce also hosts a nationally syndicated TV talk show in Halifax. His recent novel, The Republic of toon meer Nothing is currently being developed as a feature length movie. In 1996, Viking/Penguin published Choyce's best-selling Nova Scotia: Shaped By The Sea. Along with the Surf Poets, he has released a poetry/music album titled Long Lost Planet. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

Bevat de namen: Choyce Lesley, Lesley Choyce ed., Editor Lesley Choyce

Werken van Lesley Choyce

Populair Recent

Sudden Impact (2005) 79 exemplaren

Thunderbowl (2004) 77 exemplaren

Nova Scotia, Shaped by the Sea: A Living History (1996) 46 exemplaren

The Republic of Nothing (1994) 44 exemplaren

Refuge Cove (2002) 43 exemplaren

Wave Warriors (2007) 42 exemplaren

Skate Freak (2008) 40 exemplaren

Reckless (2010) 36 exemplaren

Running the Risk (2009) 36 exemplaren

Reaction (2010) 34 exemplaren

Deconstructing Dylan (2006) 30 exemplaren

Shoulder the Sky (2002) 29 exemplaren

Plank's law (2017) 27 exemplaren

Breaking Point (2012) 26 exemplaren

Book of Michael (2008) 26 exemplaren

The Coasts of Canada: A History (2002) 22 exemplaren

The End of the World As We Know It (2007) 22 exemplaren

Crash (Orca Soundings) (2013) 20 exemplaren

The Mi'kmaq Anthology (1997) 18 exemplaren

Random (2010) 17 exemplaren

Rat (2012) 17 exemplaren

Smoke and Mirrors (2004) 16 exemplaren

Sea of Tranquility: A Novel (2003) 16 exemplaren

Broken Man on a Halifax Pier (2019) 15 exemplaren

Identify (Orca Soundings) (2017) 15 exemplaren

Ark of Ice (1992) — Editor, Contributor — 15 exemplaren

Hell's Hotel (2008) 13 exemplaren

Living Outside the Lines (2009) 13 exemplaren

Off the Grid (Orca Soundings) (2015) 13 exemplaren

Cold Clear Morning (2001) 13 exemplaren

The Unlikely Redemption of John Alexander MacNeil (2017) 13 exemplaren

Dumb Luck (2011) 12 exemplaren

Wrong Time, Wrong Place (1995) 12 exemplaren

The Thing You're Good At (Orca Soundings) (2018) 10 exemplaren

Visions from the Edge: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (1981) — Redacteur — 10 exemplaren

Atlantica: Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland (2001) 10 exemplaren

Jeremy Stone (2013) 10 exemplaren

The Rules Have Changed (Orca Soundings) (2021) 9 exemplaren

Reacción: (Reaction) (Spanish Soundings) (Spanish Edition) (2012) 8 exemplaren

Into the Wasteland (2014) 8 exemplaren

Coastline of Forgetting (2002) 8 exemplaren

Clearcut Danger (1993) 8 exemplaren

Go For It, Carrie (1997) 7 exemplaren

An Avalanche of Ocean: The Life and Times of a Nova Scotia Immigrant (1987) 7 exemplaren

Accro d'la planche (2012) 7 exemplaren

Kryptonite (2018) 7 exemplaren

Last Chance (2009) 7 exemplaren

Scam (Orca Soundings) (2016) 7 exemplaren

Carrie's Crowd (1998) 7 exemplaren

The Cape Breton Collection (1984) 7 exemplaren

Second Season of Jonas McPherson (1989) 7 exemplaren

Wave Watch (1994) 6 exemplaren

Face the music (2022) 6 exemplaren

Dark End of Dream Street (1994) 6 exemplaren

Caution to the Wind (2000) 6 exemplaren

Good Idea Gone Bad (1998) 6 exemplaren

Downwind (1984) 6 exemplaren

Carrie Losses Her Nerve (2003) 6 exemplaren

Eastern Sure (1980) 6 exemplaren

December Six (2002) 6 exemplaren

World Enough (1998) 6 exemplaren

The Summer of Apartment X (1999) 5 exemplaren

Big Burn (1995) 5 exemplaren

Closing Down Heaven (2016) 5 exemplaren

Gone Bad (2011) 5 exemplaren

Coming up for Air (1988) 5 exemplaren

Trapdoor to Heaven: New Fiction (1997) 5 exemplaren

The Ecstasy Conspiracy (Memoir / Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics) (1992) 5 exemplaren

Around England with a Dog (2022) 5 exemplaren

The End of Ice (1985) 5 exemplaren

Falling through the Cracks (1996) 5 exemplaren

Full Tilt (1993) 5 exemplaren

Carrie's Camping Adventure (2001) 5 exemplaren

The Ledge (Orca Soundings) (2020) 5 exemplaren

Nova Scotia: A Traveller's Companion: 300 Years of Travel Writing (2005) 4 exemplaren

Far Enough Island (2001) 4 exemplaren

Conventional Emotions (1985) 4 exemplaren

Famous at Last (1998) 4 exemplaren

Dance the Rocks Ashore (1997) 4 exemplaren

Seven Ravens: Two Summers in a Life by the Sea (2009) 4 exemplaren

Beautiful Sadness (1998) 4 exemplaren

Skateboard Shakedown (1993) 4 exemplaren

Raising Orion (2010) 4 exemplaren

Peggy's Cove : the amazing history of a coastal village (2008) 3 exemplaren

Thin Places (2017) 3 exemplaren

I’m Alive. I Believe in Everything (2013) 3 exemplaren

The Nova Scotia book of fathers (2017) 3 exemplaren

Nova Scotia: A Traveller's Companion: Over 300 Years of Travel Writing (2005) 3 exemplaren

How to Fix your Head (2011) 3 exemplaren

Transcendental Anarchy: Confessions of a Metaphysical Tourist (1993) 3 exemplaren

Alternating currents: A handbook of renewable energy for Atlantic Canada 3 exemplaren

The Top of the Heart (1986) 3 exemplaren

Typographical Eras (2003) 3 exemplaren

Revenge of the Optimist (2004) 3 exemplaren

Billy Botzweiler's Last Dance and Other Stories (1984) 3 exemplaren

Saltwater Chronicles: Notes on Everything Under the Nova Scotia Sun (2020) 2 exemplaren

Roid Rage (1999) 2 exemplaren

Skunks for Breakfast (2006) 2 exemplaren

Long Lost Planet (1997) 2 exemplaren

1989 Nova Scotia Poetry Awards (1999) 2 exemplaren

Magnificent Obsessions: A Photo Novel (1994) 2 exemplaren

Re-Inventing the Wheel (1980) 2 exemplaren

Driving Minnie's piano : memoirs of a surfing life in Nova Scotia (2011) 2 exemplaren

Nova Scotia Love Stories (2016) 1 exemplaar

Nova Scotia: Visions of the Future (2009) 1 exemplaar

Final Instructions {poem} 1 exemplaar

Orca Currents GoReader Vol 2: (Skate Freak, Sewer Rats) (2011) 1 exemplaar

The Hungry Lizards (1990) 1 exemplaar

High Water Mark: Stories of Atlantic Canada 1983-2023 (2023) 1 exemplaar

State of the Ark: Canadian Futurefiction (2023) 1 exemplaar

Fast living 1 exemplaar

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Geboortedatum: 1951-03-21
Geslacht: male
Nationaliteit: USA (birth)
Canada
Woonplaatsen: Lawrencetown Beach, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Opleiding: Rutgers University
City University of New York
Montclair State University
Beroepen: instructor (Dalhousie University)
television host
Organisaties: Pottersfield Press (Founding Director)
Prijzen en onderscheidingen: The Dartmouth Book Award
Ann Connor Brimer Award

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Broken Man on a Halifax Pier door Lesley Choyce

2.5 stars. I wasn't crazy about it but husband really liked it.

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Caution to the Wind door Lesley Choyce

3.5 stars. Enjoyed some poems more than others, as one does, but generally they were clear and relatable, with some humour and many moments of recognition. (Read online on the author's website.)

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Coastline of Forgetting door Lesley Choyce

3.5 stars. These poems reminded me of the poetry of Charles Bruce, dealing as they do with place and time and the Nova Scotia coast. Here is a sample:

The peace of this inner beach
and a pond filled with a ballet of rockweed
is a short reprieve
from the pace of measured life.
I collect this speck of time
like a dark, polished grain of sand
and stash it in my head
to see how long it takes
to leak back out
and leave me anchored again
on a stoney beach
of another tense tomorrow.

… (meer)

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Raising Orion door Lesley Choyce

This is a book I enjoyed more on second reading. Both times I sank into Choyce's excellent writing, but this time I appreciated the later parts of the book and the ending more, I think because the first time I was mostly interested in the plot. He writes of deep things in a very approachable and clear way, or as clear as such things can be.

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