| CAPRICE |
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a novel by George Bowering
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Currently out of print
Canada: Viking, hardcover, 1987
US: Penguin, paperback, 1988
Canada: Penguin, 266 pages paperback, 1994
About the author
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| SET IN BRITISH COLUMBIA IN THE 1890s, CAPRICE HAS GOOD GUYS AND BAD GUYS, COWBOYS AND INDIANS, AND A CENTRAL FIGURE DETERMINED TO BRING A KILLER TO JUSTICE. BUT THIS IS FAR FROM YOUR AVERAGE WESTERN – THE HOMBRES HAVE ETHNIC IDENTITIES, THE INDIANS DEBATE METAPHYSICAL QUESTIONS AND THE WOULD-BE AVENGER IS THE SIX-FOOT, RED-HEADED FRENCH-CANADIAN CAPRICE, WHO WRITES POETRY, CARRIES A EUROPEAN BULLWHIP AND HAS A SCHOOLTEACHER BOYFRIEND WHO PLAYS BASEBALL |
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| "Caprice … throws us some clever curves … [and] packs it all together in a great North American saga." — THE NEW YORK TIMES |
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| "Often fun, always crafty and intelligent…" — THE MONTREAL GAZETTE |
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| "[W]ith Caprice, [Bowering] has demonstrated yet again that he's one of Canada's most original writers." — THE CALGARY HERALD |
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| "… serious, spontaneous, sly and consistently enjoyable…" — THE VANCOUVER PROVINCE |
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| "… Caprice takes the standard western revenge saga and enriches it with literary allusion and poetry-spouting cowpokes who also, some of them, play baseball." — THE WHIG-STANDARD MAGAZINE |
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| More praise for George Bowering's work |
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| "Enough irony, subversion, and playfulness for any postmodern fan." — BOOKS IN CANADA |
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| "Bowering continues to be committed to 'pushing the envelope' at every turn of phrase." — THE VANCOUVER SUN |
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| "In Bowering’s B.C., Bowering’s tale is anything but conventional.... [He] has produced a riveting retelling of events with all the racism, hypocrisies, lunatics, and charlatans left in." — MACLEAN'S MAGAZINE |
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| "In Egotists and Autocrats ... George Bowering has written an elegant, witty, penetrating, cynical, and ironic history of Canada seen through the lives of its prime ministers. Bowering’s tone is engagingly conversational and opinionated." — THE TORONTO STAR |
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(Photo: Danielle Schaub)
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About George Bowering
George Bowering is a major figure in Canadian literature, and has written over forty books. He has won the Governor General's Award twice: once in 1969 for poetry, for the books Rocky Mountain Foot and The Gangs of Kosmos; and again in 1980 for fiction, for Burning Water. In 2003, he was appointed Canada's first Poet Laureate.
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