This Ragged Place

By Terry Glavin

Book Overview

In this groundbreaking portrait of the uneasy state of the province, Terry Glavin's lyrical narratives reveal the fibre of a British Columbia rarely glimpsed. With journalistic acumen, he surveys a landscape of inexorable suburban sprawl, dismantled railway lines, scapegoating of Native fisheries, and strange goings-on at Gustafsen Lake. A new breed of travelogue, This Ragged Place will leave the taste of oolichan grease on your lips and the seeds of a transcendent new British Columbian mythology in your mind. This Ragged Place earned Glavin a Governor General's Award finalist distinction in 1997.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0921586663
• ISBN13: 9780921586661
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: New Star Books
• Length: 204 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Understanding BC's Coast

This is a wonderful collection of thoughtful essays by an writer who deserves to be much better known. With the newspapers full of so much distortion and plain untruth, Glavin's great respect for facts and his endless effort to dig them out, particularly with regard to fisheries issues, and First Nation (Indian, Native) issues, stand out like a candle in the dark. Nobody can claim to understand BC, especially the coast of BC, without having read Glavin, I would say. My favorite essays in this collection are "Last Day in Alexis Creek," which is pure pleasure just for the quality of the writing, and "From the Old Rice Mill to Annieville Drift," which reveals a sadly common example of how the people of BC were misled by their own federal government.I also happen to very much like Glavin's other book "The Last Great Ocean," .... I've just finished reading it for the third time.