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- A minor chorus : a novel / by Belcourt, Billy-Ray,author.;
"An urgent first novel about breaching the prisons we live inside from one of Canada's most daring literary talents. An unnamed narrator abandons his unfinished thesis and returns to northern Alberta in search of what eludes him: the shape of the novel he yearns to write, an autobiography of his rural hometown, the answers to existential questions about family, love, and happiness. What ensues is a series of conversations, connections, and disconnections that reveals the texture of life in a town literature has left unexplored, where the friction between possibility and constraint provides an insistent background score. Whether he's meeting with an auntie distraught over the imprisonment of her grandson, engaging in rez gossip with his cousin at a pow wow, or lingering in bed with a married man after a hotel room hookup, the narrator makes space for those in his orbit to divulge their private joys and miseries, testing the theory that storytelling can make us feel less lonely. Populated by characters as alive and vast as the boreal forest, and culminating in a breathtaking crescendo, A Minor Chorus is a novel about how deeply entangled the sayable and unsayable can become--and about how ordinary life, when pressed, can produce hauntingly beautiful music."--- Subjects: Novels.; Authors; Families; Gay men; Homecoming; Indigenous peoples; Small cities; Storytelling; First Nations reserves;
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- The man who knew infinity [videorecording] / by Bhise, Devika,actor.; Bond, J. C.; Brown, Coby,composer.; Brown, Matthew,1974-film director,film producer,screenwriter.; Fry, Stephen,1957-actor.; Irons, Jeremy,1948-actor.; Jones, Toby,1967-actor.; Katz, Jon(Producer),film producer.; McNally, Kevin,actor.; Patel, Dev,1990-actor.; Pressman, Edward R,film producer.; Smith, Larry.; Sondervan, Sofia,film producer.; Thomas, Joe(Producer),film producer.; Motion picture adaptation of (work):Kanigel, Robert.Man who knew infinity.; Animus Films (Firm),production company.; Cayenne Pepper Productions,production company.; Edward R. Pressman Film Corporation,production company.; IFC Films,presenter.; Marcys Holdings,production company.; Mongrel Media,film distributor.; Xeitgeist Entertainment Group,production company.;
Music, Coby Brown ; editor, J.C. Bond ; director of photography, Larry Smith.Dev Patel, Jeremy Irons, Devika Bhise, Kevin R. McNally, Stephen Fry, Toby Jones.Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Aiyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.Canadian Home Video Rating: PG.MPAA rating: PG-13; for some thematic elements and smoking.DVD ; widescreen presentation ; Dolby Digital 5.1.- Subjects: Biographical films.; Feature films.; Video recordings for the hearing impaired.; Hardy, G. H. (Godfrey Harold), 1877-1947; Ramanujan Aiyangar, Srinivasa, 1887-1920; Mathematicians; Mathematicians;
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- Meet me in Atlantis : my obsessive quest to find the sunken city / by Adams, Mark,1967-;
Includes bibliographical references and index."The New York Times bestselling author of Turn Right at Machu Picchu sets out to uncover the truth behind the legendary lost city of Atlantis. A few years ago, Mark Adams made a strange discovery: Everything we know about the lost city of Atlantis comes from the work of one man, the Greek philosopher Plato. Then he made a second, stranger discovery: Amateur explorers are still actively searching for this sunken city all around the world, based entirely on the clues Plato left behind. Exposed to the Atlantis obsession, Adams decides to track down these people and determine why they believe it's possible to find the world's most famous lost city and whether any of their theories could prove or disprove its existence. He visits scientists who use cutting-edge technology to find legendary civilizations once thought to be fictional. He examines the numerical and musical codes hidden in Plato's writings, and with the help of some charismatic sleuths traces their roots back to Pythagoras, the sixth-century BC mathematician. He learns how ancient societies transmitted accounts of cataclysmic events--and how one might dig out the 'kernel of truth' in Plato's original tale. Meet Me in Atlantis is Adams's enthralling account of his quest to solve one of history's greatest mysteries; a travelogue that takes readers to fascinating locations to meet irresistible characters; and a deep, often humorous look at the human longing to rediscover a lost world"--Provided by publisher.- Subjects: Plato; Plato; Adams, Mark, 1967-; Atlantis (Legendary place); Explorers.;
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