John Gould

• Sep-2021

Part fable, part folklore, The Fastest Hound Dog in the State of Maine is Yankee story telling at its very best. A man needs a dog to catch long-legged rabbits, so he buys a hound with longer legs than the rabbits. It's the fastest dog he's ever seen...

• Jul-2020

This book discusses the strong bond between three famous American Revolutionary fathers and their daughters.Through both the difficult and the rewarding times these fathers and daughters suffer through illness, death, revolution, separation, war, mar...

• May-2020

56 very short stories about death from Giller Prize finalist John GouldThe End of Me is an astonishing set of sudden stories about the experience of mortality. With an ear attuned to the uncanny and the ironic, John Gould catches his characters at mo...

• Sep-2016

"A persistent young boy is desperate to see a moose. Despite the repeated advice to simply ""do nuthin'',"" he tries everything he can think of to attract a moose, from dressing up as a moose to trying to trap one. Every attempt, however, ends hilari...

• Jun-2015

• Nov-2005

"The enormous inventiveness of these 55 fictions offers the reader an emotional and intellectual gourmet feast." -- 2003 Giller Prize Jury.A finalist for the 2003 Giller Prize, Canada's most prestigious literary award, Kilter is a subtle, funn...

• Oct-2003

The book contains the most significant essays--newly revised for this volume--written by one of the world's foremost experts in Greek mythology and culture over the last thirty years. These essays examine the myths, rituals, memory, and exchange of a...

• Jun-2002

"Once upon a long-ago time, I was a fine-looking young man with fire in my eye, zeal in my heart, and a haircut that cost twenty-five cents." So begins TALES FROM RHAPSODY HOME, 92-year-old John Gould's entertaining look at how he arrived, quite sudd...

• Jan-1992

• Apr-1986

Recounts a tale revolving around the life and times of the Morning River people who lived in "The Maine" prior to the American Revolution, continuing the saga of the friends and enemies of Elzada Knight...

• Apr-1985

The author offers his trenchant observations on the inhabitants of his Maine seacoast village in essays built around such questions as why a town of eight hundred inhabitants should have two churches and the advantages of giving a child a calf to rai...

• Jan-1975

A childless couple, Emma and Gunnar, receive the gift of a child at Christmas. A foundling child, Anna, receives the gift of loving parents at Christmas. The gift of love from a grandmother to her grandchildren....