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  • Bibliography:
    19 Books
  • First Book:
    January 1977
  • Latest Book:
    December 2018
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Book List in Order: 19 titles




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  • “Some story collections are as comfortable as plush furniture. But Leon Rooke rips the plush out of the armchairs. His fiction gleams like the chrome and glass of hi-tech.” -- Quill & Quire

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  • Рибу" ...аби -- че,вер,ая книга с,и...ов 'ладимира Кос,ельмана. Ав,ор вновь рассказывае, удиви,ельные ис,ории -- изни. Проводи, чи,а,еля...



  • По данным ЮНЕСКО "ос,оевский - один из самы... чи,аемы... писа,елей в мире.' э,у книгу в...одя, два наиболее значи,ельные романа "великого ...






  • During the night of a storm, an Appalachian girl delivers a baby and disappears. Next morning, Raymond Toker finds the baby under a bush and takes to the mountain roads to find her a home. While Turner carries out his quest, the child's father, Truma...



  • The Happiness of Others brings together the best stories from Rooke's first two books published in Canada, The Love Parlour (Oberon, 1977) and Cry Evil (Oberon, 1980), both now out of print, with a selection of stories from The Broad Back of the A...








  • `Muffins is a square; it has a vinyl cover of a photograph of Rooke and his wife and another woman (their daughter?). The photograph-cover, if one ``reads'' it closely, shows the daughter reading a book; her back is facing her parents who are at a...



  • From a master conjurer of fictional invention comes an irresistible high octane road novel that propels the reader through breathtakingly original landscape replete with unforgettable characters and extraordinary adventures. Raoul Daggle is desper...



  • According to Russell Banks, North Carolina ex-pat Leon Rooke's work charts "what the short story form can and cannot do, for he works out there in the terra incognita mapping limits." Hitting the Charts, a nineteen story Best-Of compilation, offers s...



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    From one of Canada''s most compelling and imaginative writers of short fiction comes a new collection of eleven stories and a novella.

    With stories both magical and unexpected, Leon Rooke astounds with his approach to the art of storytelli...



  • Presented in a stark dystopian setting, this extraordinary novella follows a lesbian couple on their journeys through the nightmarish reality of the disenfranchised. Peppered with Scottish slang and populated with a wide range of mi...



  • Subversive, edgy, and wildly entertaining, this short story collection is a unique encounter with fiction in Leon Rooke's characteristic style as he peels back the skin of social convention and embraces the chaos of life with characters and themes as...



  • The two novellas and three short stories in this new collection by the critically-acclaimed, North Carolina-born author Leon Rooke are united by place and mood. Set largely in the post-WWII American South, peopled by Watermelon Queens and ten-year-ol...



  • Populated by media personalities, literary characters, three-legged deer-like creatures and an array of idiosyncratic Toronto neighbours, The House on Major Street is an internal and external picaresque tale that begins with a dramatic bicycle acc...






Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Leon Rooke has published 19 books.

Leon Rooke does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The House on Major Street, was published in December 2018.

The first book by Leon Rooke, The Broad Back of the Angel, was published in January 1977.

No. Leon Rooke does not write books in series.