The Lovely Treachery of Words: Essays Selected and New

by Robert Kroetsch

A collection of essays - some of them already classics, others appearing in print for the first time - The Lovely Treachery of Words is an important contribution to Canadian literature and culture. In it Robert Kroetsch concentrates on the age-old act of story-telling and its significance to individuals and society, but with a new twist. For many of the stories he examines here are of our postmodern era, when the hazards of story-telling are as...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019540694X
• ISBN13: 9780195406948
• Release Date: May 1989
• Publisher: Oxford University Press Canada
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.0"