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Time and The Place

Will Goede

Following in the tradition of Mark Twain's cherished classics Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn, Time and The Place is a poignant story of a boy's coming of age in the America of the 1940s. Despised by his father, David --- known to all as Junior --- finds solace in his summers at his grandparents' farm, "The Place," where he confronts death, loss, love, and the tangled web of family history. Will Goede's previous novel, Quantrill, was a finalist for the B.C. Book Prize, while his story collection Life in Beijing was a finalist for the Edith Wilson Prize in literary fiction.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Rock's Mills Press
  • Publish Date: Jun 6th, 2023
  • Pages: 222
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.50in - 5.50in - 0.51in - 0.63lb
  • EAN: 9781772442816
  • Categories: LiteraryFamily Life - GeneralComing of Age

About the Author

Goede, Will: - Will Goede lives in Vancouver and has published stories and articles in Capilano Review, Canadian Fiction Magazine, Windsor Review, Event, Saturday Night, Malahat Review, and Grain. He has published a novel, Quantrill, and a cycle of stories, Love in Beijing, a finalist for the B.C. Book Prize in Fiction, and The Man from Vancouver, a play broadcast on China's national radio for several years in the 1990s. Love in Beijing was short-listed for the Edith Wilson Prize in 1989. "Sleeping Arrangements" was published in Malahat Review and a finalist for Western Magazine Award; it was also the winner of the Federation of BC Writers' "Literary Writes X Contest" in 1996.Goede was born in Augusta, Wisconsin and served in the Korean War, worked in naval intelligence, studied English in Edinburgh, taughtin Rhode Island and Maine and received his Ph.D. in American Black Literature in California. He taught at the University of Victoria from 1966to 1971. In 1982 he went to China, where he taught for four years. He was a member of the first rock-and-roll band in the PRC, and the first jazz group in Beijing. Goede returned to the Far East in 1988, teaching in Jakarta, Indonesia, and in 1995 in Makassar, Sulawesi. He retired from college teaching in 2000.

Praise for this book

"Throughout the novel Goede meditates on life and loss through coming-of-age stories and the music of language. Time and The Place is a window into small town life in the 1940s that pulls together reflections of regret, desire, and a hindsight clarity of what could have been. This bildungsroman reads like a fictional memoir as Junior recollects his early days in the U.S., connecting with the ghosts of his Mennonite family who farm the family property known simply as The Place.... Unlike his uncles and aunts, Junior finds a way out from the gravity of The Place with his love of music, and through Time and The Place, Goede strives for the light through memorable storytelling.​​​​​​​" ---Joe Enns, BC Review