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Finalist for the 2013 BC Book Prizes Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize. Shortlisted for the 2013 BC National Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. As a teenager, legendary Canadian author George Bowering lived the life of an ordinary boy. He loved baseball, read Westerns, held a part-time job, and fantasized about girls and women. George was due for a sexual awakening, which arrived when he was fifteen. But what took place was anything but ordinary when George found himself vying for the affections of three very different women: his first love, the girl from the wrong side of the tracks, and one of his high school teachers. Set in the South Okanagan Valley in the Fifties, Pinboy is an intimately honest and often hilarious memoir that skilfully captures the delirious chaos that takes place as a boy becomes a man.

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There's a great deal of gentle humour in this book, and no overt sentimentality. Nostalgia might not be what it used to be, but most of the time it's pretty darned good. - Vancouver Sun It's the best kind of nostalgia - the kind that makes you think wistfully back on your own fifteen-year-old life. It would not work if the author were not still infused with some of that teenager's verve and decency and wit. The boy is still very much a part of the man, and we're all the better for it. - BC Studies I'll hazard a prediction that Pinboy will be George Bowering's most provocative work. - Geist Bowering's always had a knack for presentation in print ... Pinboy reads easily, breezily, as a memoir or a novel, or Spalding Gray-like monologue. - Winnipeg Review George's adventures and misadventures make Pinboy the best candidate for a Stephen Leacock Award in a long, long time ... [it] deserves a higher reward than that: many, many readers. - The Globe and Mail

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George Bowering is a poet, writer, biographer, and historian. He has written over ninety works and was the first Parliamentary Poet Laureate of Canada. He has won the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction and Poetry. In 1993 he became an Officer of the Order of Canada, and in 2004 received the Order of British Columbia. Having lived all across Canada, including Montreal, Calgary, and London, Ontario, he is currently living the good life in Vancouver, BC.

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