Yvon Durelle fought from the tiny Acadian hamlet of Baie Ste. Anne to within a heartbeat of being light-heavyweight boxing champion of the world.Durelle emerges in this book as a man of contradictions. His lifelong nickname was "Doux"--gentle--but he mastered a spectacularly brutal profession. Accounts of his fighting career reveal a man of incredible toughness and audacity: in 1952 he fought Olympic gold medalist Floyd Patterson with a broken hand. His life outside the ring was equally audacious: in 1977 he was charged with shooting and killing a man outside a Miramichi drinking club. This biography follows Durelle's painful progress through both worlds.The Fighting Fisherman is a remarkably frank portrait of a complex man and a punishing sport.This edition replaces the Goodread edition of this title,  ISBN 0-8878-0114-5.

The Fighting Fisherman: The Life of Yvon Durelle

Sports & Outdoors

Fraser, Raymond

Hunting & Fishing

Doubleday, Canada

Raymond Fraser - best known as a journalist, and someone who was praised by Alden Nowlen as "one of the most gifted writers" in the country, has written a novella set in Spain, Boston, Toronto and the east coast of Canada. It is Raymond Fraser's fifth book of fiction, and like so much of his writing, it is filled with an unforgettable cast of characters: a superannuated hooker, a self-made tonsorial entrepreneur, a youth tangled in the shame of ignorance and poverty. Into this mix, Fraser draws us a picture of a ill-starred reunion of childhood sweethearts, showing us an alcoholic writer's search for a Spanish fantasy and a cigar-chewing ex-con beguiled by the bright lights of Tin Pan Alley.... It is also provocative and unfailingly entertaining.

Costa Blanca

Literature & Fiction

Black Moss Pr

When the Earth Was Flat

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

The Fighting Fisherman

Goodread Biography

Yvon Durelle fought from the tiny Acadian hamlet of Baie Ste. Anne to within a heartbeat of being light-heavyweight boxing champion of the world. Durelle emerges in this book as a man of contradictions. His lifelong nickname was "Doux"--gentle--but he mastered a spectacularly brutal profession. Accounts of his fighting career reveal a man of incredible toughness and audacity: in 1952 he fought Olympic gold medalist Floyd Patterson with a broken hand. His life outside the ring was equally audacious: in 1977 he was charged with shooting and killing a man outside a Miramichi drinking club. This biography follows Durelle's painful progress through both worlds. The Fighting Fisherman is a remarkably frank portrait of a complex man and a punishing sport. This edition replaces the Goodread edition of this title, ISBN 0-8878-0114-5.

Historical

Formac

Raymond Fraser's books have been called powerful, insightful, moving, irreverent, disturbing and outrageously funny. Filled with an unforgettable cast of characters, COSTA BLANCA features a novella and stories set in Spain, Boston, Toronto and the east coast of Canada  What the critics have said of Raymond Fraser's stories:  "A highly original voice that is occasionally sad, sometimes very comic. A real pleasure to read." ALAN DAWE, Vancouver Sun  "Comic and horrifying." HEATHER SANDERSON, Canadian Literature  "Perceptive, magnetic and laced with humour." ANNE INGRAM, The Gleaner  "A Canadian literary legend. If every writer wrote with the clarity and gusto Fraser does, more people would still be readers." ALAN TEPPER

Contemporary

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

"Reading WHEN THE EARTH WAS FLAT is next best thing to a voyage of discovery, a ride on a runaway train, the thrill of a roller coaster, and a front row seat in the theatre of the absurd. This wonderfully entertaining book is the work of a gifted and accomplished author." HILARY PRINCE, The Guardian  “If you’re familiar with some of the Canadian literary lights of the late 60s and into the 70s, or if you've ever been amused by Alden Nowlan's work, or the Flat Earth Society, or if you've ever wondered what Leonard Cohen was like before he became an international sensation, or if you've ever had dreams of grandeur, or tried your hand at writing yourself, or if you've ever wrestled with the lure of alcohol.... If you fall into any of these categories, you won't be sorry you picked up Raymond Fraser's book When The Earth Was Flat. It's a terrific read, highly amusing and very informative, and a valuable record of a time and place.” GLENN MURRAY, author of Walter the Farting Dog.  "Farley Mowat has called this insightful, powerful and comedic writer "the best literary voice to come belling out of the Maritimes in decades." TELEGRAPH-JOURNAL

When The Earth Was Flat: Remembering Leonard Cohen, Alden Nowlan, the Flat Earth Society, the King James monarchy hoax, the Montreal Story Tellers and other curious matters

Essays & Correspondence

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