Joseph Boyden

Pre-festival event. The latest installment of Penguin’s Extraordinary Canadians. John Ralston Saul, Executive Editior of the series and president of PEN International, presents his biography of Louis-Hippolyte LaFontaine and Robert Baldwin and Joseph Boyden presents Louis Riel And Gabriel Dumont. Tickets: ... (more)$20 / $15 Student or Senior / Free for Festival Members and Carleton Students

Join us for lunch and a conversation with Joseph Boyden, the Giller Prize winning author of Three Day Road and Through Black Spruce. Seating is limited: please reserve in advance. Tickets available only online or by phone at 613.562.1243. Tickets: $55 (includes lunch and a copy of Through Black Spruce).

Come and discuss Joseph Boyden's luminous novel, Three Day Road with our book club. Everyone is welcome to join in the talk and in the coffee!

Joseph Boyden discusses and signs his book Through Black Spruce.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Joseph Boyden discusses and signs his book Through Black Spruce.If you are unable to attend,you must call the book shop to order signed books.

Part of the Vancouver International Writers and Readers Festival 2008.

Joseph Boyden burst onto the Canadian literary scene
in 2005 with the publication of Three Day Road. The
novel, the story of two Cree friends who leave their
pristine northern country to end up in the horrific
trenches ... (more)of the First World War, put Boyden into the
literary limelight when he was only in his 30s. Three
Day Road was nominated for a number of awards,
eventually winning two, and has been translated into
10 languages. Boyden returns to the Festival with a
haunting new novel, Through Black Spruce. With the
sensitivity that made his first novel so moving, he
tackles topics of self-discovery, painful realizations and
the inescapable ties of family. This will be an evening
well spent, with an author whose wisdom and talent
has established him at the forefront of the Canadian
literary scene.
$20