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Can I read The Box on EtoBox?
The Box by George Bowering is a children's book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Box about?
Fiction. THE BOX breaks with the conventional genre of short stories, weaving together biography, autobiography, parable, and drama. Here is fourteen-year old Drew, transplanted from the coast to the Okanagan, and working at his first summer job picking prunes for the town MILF. Here, too, is the extraordinary tale of minor-league pitcher Bunny Watson who strings together an amazing twenty wins without a loss. Bowering trades witty barbs with the poet Phyllis Webb in the experimental story "Phyllis's Questions", while the title story "The Box" explores romantic and platonic relationships as the characters play with the art of opening a box. At times cerebral, THE BOX is always playful, clever, and entertaining.
Who reads The Box?
It is typically read by young readers, and the parents and educators who guide them.
Common subject areas: juvenile, young adult.
- Author
- George Bowering
- Publisher
- Vancouver: New Star Books
- Published
- 2009
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781554200450
- Category
- children's
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities
- Rating
- 3.84 / 5 (669 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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