Review
"Choyce has a feeling for the young and dispossessed, for the terrible angst of adolescence and the rituals of rebellion." (
Globe and Mail )
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Hardcover
edition.
About the Author
LESLEY CHOYCE is a novelist and poet living at Lawrencetown Beach in Nova Scotia. A former grand champion of the Men\s Open Canadian National Surfing Championships he surfs on the Atlantic coast year-round along with running a literary publishing house and teaching English at Dalhousie University. He also has a regular nationally-broadcast program on Vision TV called
Off the Page with Lesley Choyce. He is the author of more than fifty books of poetry fiction and non-fiction for adults and children including
Carrie\'s Crowd and
Go For It Carrie. His writing has earned him several awards including two Dartmouth Book Awards and the Ann Connor Brimer Award for the Young Adult novel
Good Idea Gone Bad. Five of his previous Formac novels have received the Canadian Children\'s Book Centre\'s \"Our Choice\" Award.
The Ottawa Citizen calls him \"a national treasure\". '
--This text refers to the
Hardcover
edition.
