{"id":291,"date":"2020-10-04T09:55:07","date_gmt":"2020-10-04T16:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/classroomartwork\/?p=291"},"modified":"2022-09-06T17:22:26","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T00:22:26","slug":"progress-smith-art106","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/classroomartwork\/progress-smith-art106\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress-Smith-ART106"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Progress<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

(Cormorant, 2011)<\/span>
\nART 106<\/span><\/p>\n

Since her fianc\u00e9\u2019s death at eighteen, Helen Massey has spent her life avoiding it. Change comes when her town is only months away from being thirty feet under water. A government agency, The Power Authority, is relocating the entirety of her hometown to make way for a power dam project. What can\u2019t be moved will be torn down. Even the cemetery is to be dug up and reinterred nearby. While visiting her lover\u2019s grave, Helen witnesses a man fall to his death on the power dam worksite. \u201cHe fell like a sack, straight down, with one arm waving in circles. He fell past the other workman strapped into a harness who must have been surprised to see him pass. Mocking the air. It seemed he fell without a sound.\u201d That same day, her brother returns unannounced after a fifteen-year absence. Robert Massey was a runaway. The construction made his homecoming a \u201cnow or never\u201d decision, he tells his sister. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to have to come back in a boat to see the family home.\u201d When Robert discovers his parents kept the reasons for his departure a secret\u2014too little has changed\u2014he confesses, hoping his sister might bury the past. So begins their transformations. The siblings must negotiate their shared history, and their differences, if they are to find themselves a future.<\/p>\n

(Description Source: Cormorant<\/a>)
\n<\/span><\/p>\n


\nAuthor<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Michael V. Smith<\/strong> is an associate professor at the University of British Columbia, where he teaches creative writing. His first novel,\u00a0Cumberland,<\/em>\u00a0was shortlisted for the Amazon.ca \/ Books in Canada First Novel Award. His short fiction has won the Western Magazine Gold Award for Fiction and been nominated for the Journey Prize. In 2007, Smith received the Dayne Ogilvie Award for Emerging Gay Writers and Vancouver\u2019s Community Hero of the Year Award. A native of Cornwall, Ontario, Smith currently lives in Kelowna, BC.<\/p>\n


\nUBC Library Holdings<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

https:\/\/tinyurl.com\/y4qudx2t<\/a><\/p>\n


\nHow to Purchase this Book<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

From the Publisher –\u00a0Cormorant<\/a><\/span>
\nFrom Used-book Sellers – ABE<\/a>, Amazon<\/a>, Antiqbook<\/a>, Biblio<\/a>, Vialibri<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Paper ISBN: 9781770860001<\/span><\/p>\n


\nUBC Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The University of British Columbia Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project<\/em> aims to display academically inspiring artwork in classrooms and other teaching areas of the university.<\/span><\/p>\n

Artwork displayed as part of this project \u2013 including the covers of books and journals containing work written or edited by UBCO scholars and researchers \u2013 is intended to help enliven university teaching spaces, educate classroom users about the connections between research and teaching, and introduce members of the broader public to some of the research and scholarship carried out at UBCO.<\/span><\/p>\n


\nHow to Submit Artwork <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

If you know of other book or journal covers, or other academically inspiring artwork that is connected to work carried out by UBCO artists, scholars or researchers and that is consistent with UBCO\u2019s educational mission, please email your suggestions to classroom.artwork@ubc.ca<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

The UBC Okanagan Classroom Artwork Project<\/em> began in 2019 with support from the Irving K. Barber School of Arts and Sciences. It is now a joint project of UBCO’s Faculties and the Office of the Provost.<\/span><\/p>\n

Artwork and other images that are a part of this project are displayed solely for educational purposes.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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