Mirror on the Floor by George Bowering ISBN 9781772140095, 1772140090 instant download

Mirror on the Floor by George Bowering ISBN 9781772140095, 1772140090 instant download

Reissued as part of Anvil Press's Lost BC Literature series

Set in Vancouver in the mid-1960s, Mirror on the Floor focuses on one summer in the life of UBC grad student Bob Small and his roommate, George Delsing.

They spend their time carousing the downtown eastside and engaging in conversations with the old-timers—dockworkers, unemployed loggers, and retired seamen. They study, smoke cigarettes, endure tedious summer jobs, bombard one another with philosophical banter, and strike out on near nightly adventures in Small's "poor old over-traveled yellow Morris Minor" to the pubs and late-night diners up and down East Hastings and along Main Street.

And it is on one such evening that Bob Small encounters a mysterious and troubled young woman outside the city lock-up. Her name is Andrea and he can't seem to shake—or understand—the inexplicable attraction he feels for her; and from this night on, like a smoky apparition, Andrea is...