The Low Life: Five Great Tales from Up and Down the River

by Brian Doyle and Brian Doyle

Book Overview

Rarely in Canada has a writer painted such an evocative, funny and bittersweet portrait of a time and place as Brian Doyle has in his novels of the Gatineau River and of Ottawa. Doyle is highly acclaimed within and without Canada for his body of work. The first Canadian to be selected as a finalist for the prestigious Hans Christian Andersen Award (the "Little Nobel"), he has repeatedly won the Canadian Library Association's Book of the Year Award...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0888994982
• ISBN13: 9780888994981
• Release Date: January 2002
• Publisher: Douglas & McIntyre
• Length: 399 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Age Range: 8 to 12 years
• Grade Range: Grades 3 to 7