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Lesley Choyce

Auteur de Sudden Impact

110+ oeuvres 1,241 utilisateurs 53 critiques 2 Favoris

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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 afficher plus 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) afficher moins

Œuvres de Lesley Choyce

Sudden Impact (2005) 78 exemplaires
Thunderbowl (2004) 77 exemplaires
The Republic of Nothing (1994) 43 exemplaires
Refuge Cove (2002) 43 exemplaires
Wave Warriors (2007) 42 exemplaires
Skate Freak (2008) 40 exemplaires
Reckless (2010) 36 exemplaires
Running the Risk (2009) 36 exemplaires
Reaction (2010) 34 exemplaires
Deconstructing Dylan (2006) 30 exemplaires
Shoulder the Sky (2002) 29 exemplaires
Plank's law (2017) 27 exemplaires
Book of Michael (2008) 26 exemplaires
Breaking Point (2012) 25 exemplaires
The End of the World As We Know It (2007) 22 exemplaires
The Coasts of Canada: A History (2002) 22 exemplaires
Crash (Orca Soundings) (2013) 19 exemplaires
The Mi'kmaq Anthology (1997) 18 exemplaires
Random (2010) 17 exemplaires
Rat (2012) 17 exemplaires
Sea of Tranquility: A Novel (2003) 16 exemplaires
Smoke and Mirrors (2004) 16 exemplaires
Identify (Orca Soundings) (2017) 15 exemplaires
Ark of Ice (1992) — Editor, Contributor — 15 exemplaires
Broken Man on a Halifax Pier (2019) 14 exemplaires
Living Outside the Lines (2009) 13 exemplaires
Hell's Hotel (2008) 13 exemplaires
Off the Grid (Orca Soundings) (2015) 13 exemplaires
Dumb Luck (2011) 12 exemplaires
Cold Clear Morning (2001) 12 exemplaires
Jeremy Stone (2013) 11 exemplaires
Wrong Time, Wrong Place (1995) 11 exemplaires
Visions from the Edge: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (1981) — Directeur de publication — 10 exemplaires
Clearcut Danger (1993) 8 exemplaires
Into the Wasteland (2014) 8 exemplaires
Last Chance (2009) 7 exemplaires
Coastline of Forgetting (2002) 7 exemplaires
Carrie's Crowd (1998) 7 exemplaires
Kryptonite (2018) 7 exemplaires
Scam (Orca Soundings) (2016) 7 exemplaires
Second Season of Jonas McPherson (1989) 7 exemplaires
The Cape Breton Collection (1984) 7 exemplaires
Accro d'la planche (2012) 7 exemplaires
Wave Watch (1994) 6 exemplaires
Face the music (2022) 6 exemplaires
Dark End of Dream Street (1994) 6 exemplaires
Go For It, Carrie (1997) 6 exemplaires
World Enough (1998) 6 exemplaires
Carrie Losses Her Nerve (2003) 6 exemplaires
Downwind (1984) 6 exemplaires
December Six (2002) 6 exemplaires
The Summer of Apartment X (1999) 5 exemplaires
Closing Down Heaven (2016) 5 exemplaires
Good Idea Gone Bad (1998) 5 exemplaires
Gone Bad (2011) 5 exemplaires
Caution to the Wind (2000) 5 exemplaires
Trapdoor to Heaven: New Fiction (1997) 5 exemplaires
Eastern Sure (1980) 5 exemplaires
The End of Ice (1985) 5 exemplaires
Full Tilt (1993) 5 exemplaires
Falling through the Cracks (1996) 5 exemplaires
Around England with a Dog (2022) 5 exemplaires
Carrie's Camping Adventure (2001) 5 exemplaires
Big Burn (1995) 4 exemplaires
Famous at Last (1998) 4 exemplaires
Far Enough Island (2001) 4 exemplaires
Dance the Rocks Ashore (1997) 4 exemplaires
Conventional Emotions (1985) 4 exemplaires
Beautiful Sadness (1998) 4 exemplaires
Skateboard Shakedown (1993) 4 exemplaires
Coming up for Air (1988) 4 exemplaires
The Ledge (Orca Soundings) (2020) 4 exemplaires
Thin Places (2017) 3 exemplaires
The Nova Scotia book of fathers (2017) 3 exemplaires
Raising Orion (2010) 3 exemplaires
The Top of the Heart (1986) 3 exemplaires
Revenge of the Optimist (2004) 3 exemplaires
Typographical Eras (2003) 3 exemplaires
Skunks for Breakfast (2006) 2 exemplaires
Long Lost Planet (1997) 2 exemplaires
1989 Nova Scotia Poetry Awards (1999) 2 exemplaires
Re-Inventing the Wheel (1980) 2 exemplaires
Roid Rage (1999) 2 exemplaires
How to Fix your Head (2011) 2 exemplaires
The Hungry Lizards (1990) 1 exemplaire
Nova Scotia Love Stories (2016) 1 exemplaire

Oeuvres associées

Northern Stars: The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction (1994) — Contributeur — 83 exemplaires
Tesseracts 3 (2002) — Contributeur — 52 exemplaires
Tesseracts 1 (1985) — Contributeur — 50 exemplaires
Tesseracts 4 (2002) — Contributeur — 31 exemplaires
What If...? : Amazing Stories (1998) — Contributeur — 29 exemplaires

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I always go into reading multiple author story collections with only moderate hopes for the quality and for the interest I will have in each story. So I was surprised and very pleased to enjoy every single one of these, most of which are by authors I haven’t read before, though I have heard of them. I have to confess that I do have a story in here myself, but I am not including it in my rating because that would seem a bit, well, prejudiced.

Lesley Choyce has done a great job with this selection. So glad to have this one on my shelf.… (plus d'informations)
 
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thesmellofbooks | Jan 10, 2024 |
School pisses Colin off; so do his teachers who view him as a troublemaker. But what really pisses him off are the bullies who get away with it because no one wants to break the code of silence that the bullies rely on. When Colin interrupts Liam and Craig picking on an old man during lunch break, the vice principal catches the tail end where the old man yells at Colin and he gets in trouble for it. He also winds up on Liam and Craig’s hit list and a photoshopped, nude photo of Colin winds up on GoofFace. Colin could handle that because the body wasn’t even his and anyone would see that. But when pictures of his female friends begin appearing and Emily, a fellow outcast, tells him that she thinks Liam and Craig did it to retaliate for the girls turning them down, Colin feels he has to do something about it and considers defying the unwritten social rules of no snitching. The unwritten code is so pervasive in the school that even the vice principal accuses him of ratting when he comes to tell him what is happening. This book for reluctant readers provides a realistic portrayal of timely topics including cyberbullying, sexual harassment, and school violence.… (plus d'informations)
 
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Dairyqueen84 | 2 autres critiques | Mar 15, 2022 |
Lesley Choyce has been a mainstay on the Atlantic Canadian literary scene for decades. The author of 100 books, he has written and published in every genre imaginable. He has won and been shortlisted for numerous regional and national literary awards, operates a publishing house, held teaching positions at Dalhousie University and other institutions, and worked as a television presenter. He is an environmentalist, a humanitarian, a surfer, a husband and father, and a tireless advocate for Atlantic Canadian writing and writers. Though a Canadian citizen since 1983, he is American born, having emigrated to Canada in his late twenties and adopted Nova Scotia as his home. These details are relevant when considering Saltwater Chronicles: Notes on Everything Under the Nova Scotia Sun, which collects newspaper columns he wrote over the period from 2014-2017. Lesley Choyce candidly and unapologetically mines his own life experience for material, and the stories he tells in these pieces are, without exception, entertaining, instructive, poignant and filled with wry observations and self-deprecating humour. Family life, home improvement, government incompetence, surfing, chopping wood, drilling wells, struggles with illness and physical decline, are all up for discussion. The word “chronicles” from the book’s title hints at a preoccupation with the passage of time, and a theme that he returns to again and again is aging. A New Jersey native, born in 1951, Lesley arrived in Nova Scotia in 1978: an educated, inquisitive, idealistic young man with long hair and few possessions looking to escape the clamorous pressure-cooker of life in urban USA. Those days might be long gone, but Lesley retains that idealism, that love of and respect for nature, and the wide-eyed faith in the essential goodness of humanity that spurred him on his quest more than 40 years ago and sustained him through good times and bad. In Saltwater Chronicles he talks freely about the past but does so without regret. For sure, some of the articles strike a nostalgic note, but Lesley is accepting: he does not obsess over lost opportunities and he never complains about getting old. The most vivid and deeply affecting writing in the book concerns family: the death of his father, his wife’s bout with cancer. These episodes provide glimpses into the man’s heart and soul, and what we see is someone who is generous, loving and kind, and whose greatest wish is to leave the world a better place. We are fortunate and should be thankful that in 1978 Lesley Choyce chose to make Nova Scotia his home. Everyone who knows him, or been influenced by or learned from him, would agree that his abiding good humour, optimism and compassion have made Nova Scotia a better place to live, work and write.… (plus d'informations)
 
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icolford | Sep 15, 2020 |

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Œuvres
110
Aussi par
5
Membres
1,241
Popularité
#20,684
Évaluation
½ 3.4
Critiques
53
ISBN
304
Langues
3
Favoris
2

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