With an introduction by Lisa Robertson "There is no there there" Gertrude Stein's famous phrase about the Oakland she grew up in, applies to the Oliver, BC of George Bowering's youth. What is to be found there, as Stein demonstrated, are objects, and rooms, and food. George Bowering's newest book delights in the thing-iness of memory. Understanding himself as an object among objects, Bowering conjures up the sights, tastes, and touches of a world otherwise beyond our grasp. Stein, Charles Olson, Roland Barthes: these are the masters shaping this tender picture of a childhood in the South Okanagan, and a lifetime of writing.

A risqué autobiographical novel that fictionalizes the sexual adventures of the author's youthIn 2012, acclaimed writer George Bowering published Pinboy, a fictional memoir of his teenage sexual awakening. With No One, Bowering returns to play with form and fact in this autobiographical novel that continues the narrator's journey in a quest story full of further sexual awakenings as that Pinboy becomes a man.A writer called "alert, playful, and questioning" by The Globe and Mail, Bowering infuses this work with sexual politics, romantic and social developments, and a backdrop of ancient themes of homesickness and captivity. Readers may delight in the details of the retelling or perhaps they will be browned off. There are no guarantees. The ending will be a pleasant surprise for readers, patient and otherwise.