One Good Story, That One: Stories

by Thomas King

Overview

One Good Story, That One is a collection steeped in native oral tradition and shot through with Thomas King’s special brand of wit and comic imagination. These highly acclaimed stories conjure up Native and Judeo-Christian myths, present-day pop culture, and literature while mixing in just the right amount of perception and experience.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780816689781
Publisher:	University of Minnesota Press
Publication date:	09/01/2013
Pages:	147
Sales rank:	1,156,163
Product dimensions:	5.38(w) x 8.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Thomas King is one of Canada’s premier Native public intellectuals. He was the first Aboriginal person to deliver the prestigious Massey Lectures, and he is the best-selling, award-winning author of six novels, two collections of short stories, and two nonfiction books. His work The Inconvenient Indian won the BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction and the RBC Taylor Prize. He is a recipient of the Order of Canada and lives in Guelph, Ontario.

Table of Contents

Contents

One Good Story, That One
Totem
Magpies
Trap Lines
How Corporal Colin Sterling Saved Blossom, Alberta, and Most of the Rest of the World as Well
The One about Coyote Going West
A Seat in the Garden
Joe the Painter and the Deer Island Massacre
A Coyote Columbus Story
Borders

Editorial Reviews

"There’s a sly, tart intelligence at work in many of these stories. . . . The writing is taut, sharp-edged, and very funny." —Globe and Mail



"These stories clearly display King’s trademark wit and intelligence, his facility with characterization, and his mastery of narrative art." —The Ottawa Citizen

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