Burrard Inlet

Keevil, Tyler (2014) Burrard Inlet. Parthian, Cardigan. ISBN 9781908946898

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Abstract

Burrard Inlet is the body of water that divides Vancouver’s North Shore from the rest of the Lower Mainland. In this collection of award-winning stories, Tyler Keevil uses that rugged landscape – where the city meets the mountains, and civilisation meets the wild – as a backdrop for characters struggling against the elements, each other and themselves. A search-and-rescue volunteer looks for a missing snowboarder on Christmas Eve; two brothers retreat to the woods to shoot a film in memory of their dead friend; a reclusive forestry worker picks up a hitcher on his way down Mount Seymour; a young man finds a temporary haven on the ice barge where he works. Written in a lean, muscular style, these are stories awash in blood and brine, and steeped in images of freedom and confinement. Within that narrative framework, Burrard Inlet becomes more than a geographical location: it is a liminal space, a boundary and a barrier, a threshold to be crossed.

Item Type:	Book
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Short Story; Short Story Collections; Canadian Short Fiction; REF2021
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) P Language and Literature > PR English literature > PR750 Prose
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Creative Arts
Research Priority Areas:	Culture, Continuity, and Transformation
Depositing User:	Tyler Keevil
Date Deposited:	07 Sep 2016 08:46
Last Modified:	31 Aug 2023 08:56
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/3876

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