{"product_id":"writing-the-okanagan-george-bowering-9780889229419","title":"Writing the Okanagan","description":"\u003cp\u003eGeorge Bowering was born in Penticton, where his great-grandfather Willis Brinson lived, and Bowering has never been all that far from the Okanagan Valley in his heart and imagination. Early in the twenty-first century, he was made a permanent citizen of Oliver. Bowering has family up and down the Valley, and he goes there as often as he can. He has been asked during his many visits to Okanagan bookstores over the years to publish a collection of his writing about the Valley. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cem\u003eWriting the Okanagan\u003c\/em\u003e draws on forty books Bowering has published since 1960 - poetry, fiction, history, and some forms he may have invented. Selections from \u003cem\u003eDelsing \u003c\/em\u003e(1961) and \u003cem\u003eSticks \u0026amp; Stones\u003c\/em\u003e (1962) are here, as is \"Driving to Kelowna\" from \u003cem\u003eThe Silver Wire \u003c\/em\u003e(1966). Other Okanagan towns, among them Rock Creek, Peachland, Vernon, Kamloops, Princeton, and Osoyoos, inspire selections from work published through the 1970s and on to 2013. Fairview, the old mining site near Oliver, is the focus of an excerpt from \u003cem\u003eCaprice\u003c\/em\u003e (1987, 2010), one volume in Bowering's trilogy of historical novels. \"Desert Elm\" takes as its two main subjects the Okanagan Valley and his father, who, as Bowering did, grew up there. With the addition of some previously unpublished works, the reader will find the wonder of the Okanagan here, in both prose and poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George Bowering\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0889229414\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780889229419\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Talonbooks\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/03\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.30lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 6.00w x 1.00d","brand":"George Bowering","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46372329455871,"sku":"9780889229419","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_911e9958-552f-4614-a8f1-d6ef511478a8.jpg?v=1732725645","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/writing-the-okanagan-george-bowering-9780889229419","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}