Loose End
by Ivan E. Coyote
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Finalist for the Ferro-Grumley Award (Publishing Triangle) Ivan E. Coyote has developed a reputation as one of North America's most disarming storytellers; their tales of life on the roads and trails of the North as well as rural America are rich in their plainspoken, honest truths. In Loose End, their third story collection, Ivan focuses attention on the city: urban life, specifically in the East End of Vancouver, a diverse neighborhood of all types--old, young, gay, straight, white, black, show more Asian--communing at local coffee bars over hot rods, the art of skinny-dipping, and changes in the weather. Ivan presides over this circus of activities with their cool gaze, whether it's trying to impress the woman with the hot tub next door, or showing their mother how to use a cordless drill. Ivan's world is the world of being out and open and unafraid; it's also a world in which no ghettos--racial, cultural, or defined by sexuality or gender--exist. With the calm, observant eye of a master storyteller, Ivan E. Coyote shows us how to break free of the rigors of authority and be true to ourselves, warts and all. show lessTags
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Few pages, big stories... Coyote's stories about belonging and being other, in between, in her everyday life are inspiring, funny, touching. The words read themselves aloud in Coyote's voice. Storyteller, indeed!
This is wonderful. Each story made my heart hurt a little, usually in a good way. Strange how much a book can make one feel and care.
I wish I knew Ivan in person.
I wish I knew Ivan in person.
Acquired at 2010 SIWCon
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13+ Works 1,766 Members
Ivan E. Coyote was born and raised in Whitchorse, Yukon and now resides in Vancouver with Deja the husky and Goliath the pomeranian-cross. Ivan is a writer whose first loves are live storytelling and performing with One Trick Rodeo, a spoken word musical collision.
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- Original publication date
- 2004
- Important places
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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- Members
- 105
- Popularity
- 307,468
- Reviews
- 3
- Rating
- (4.52)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 3
- ASINs
- 1
