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	Amazon.ca: Man of Bone: Books: Alan Cumyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Alan Cumyn is well known for creating men with tender hearts and iron wills.
		I read Cumyn's Burridge Unbound (2000), the sequel to this novel, first and was led by that experience to seek out this one.
		Man of Bone is a disturbing novel (closer in length to a novella) that tells the story of Bill Burridge, a member of the Canadian diplomatic corps, being tortured by a rebel group on an island nation.
	www.amazon.ca /Man-Bone-Alan-Cumyn/dp/0864922299 (837 words)

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		Alan Cumyn was born in Ottawa, Canada in 1960, and began writing poetry and short stories in high school.
		Man of Bone, a harrowing tale of kidnapping and survival inspired by Cumyn's human rights reporting, was published in the spring of 1998.
		Cumyn's most recent novel for adults, The Sojourn (2003), is about a young Canadian private in the Great War who gets an unexpected leave to London.
	www.ncf.carleton.ca /~ag002/acumyn.htm (625 words)

	Imprint Online: BookReview - Hardly worth the read (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Cumyn delivers a story where there are no good guys or bad guys, and the line between good and evil seems to be crossed and double-crossed.
		Cumyn shows that there is good and evil in everyone and that people must take advantage of each day to do what is morally right.
		Cumyn doesn’t seem to believe in chapters; instead he takes little excerpts that inhibit the story from advancing forward and causing the plot to thicken.
	imprint.uwaterloo.ca /issues/102000/6Arts/BookReview/bookreview06.shtml (629 words)

	Centretown-based novel nominated for Giller (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Cumyn’s novel Burridge Unbound was recently nominated for the Giller Prize, Canada’s richest award for fiction, and he’s hoping the nomination will help him tap into the lucrative American market with this book, and its companion novel, Man of Bone.
		Cumyn’s description of a water mulcher churning up dead leaves may be enough to draw Centretown residents into the novel — the setting is late autumn, and Cumyn’s main character, Bill Burridge, is walking along the paved bike path on the Rideau Canal — but our southern neighbours don’t have the same familiarity.
		Cumyn says his experience teaching in Indonesia and China in the eighties, along with nine years as a researcher at the Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada, have been the inspiration for much of his work.
	www.carleton.ca /ctown/Archiv_old/97to04/oct2700/arts4.htm (489 words)

	Canadian Embassy and QB World Books to Host Reading by Canadian Author Alan Cumyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Cumyn has lived and worked in Indonesia and is now based in Ottawa, Canada.
		Cumyn is one of Canada’s up and coming authors and the recipient of several literary awards.
		The Sojourn is the story of Ramsay Crome, a young Canadian soldier posted to the front lines of World War I. Told with crisp historical detail and emotionally riveting prose, The Sojourn follows Ramsay’s awakening consciousness as he endures both the horrors of the front, and the bewildering freedom of leave.
	www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /jakarta/QbWorldBooks-en.asp (409 words)

	Alan Cumyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Alan Cumyn was born in Ottawa, and studied at Royal Roads Military College and Queen's University before earning an M.A. in Creative Writing and English Literature at the University of Windsor.
		He has lived across Canada and in China and Indonesia, and worked variously as a geologist's assistant, group home manager, tai chi instructor, English teacher, program officer in international development, human rights researcher and freelance writer.
		Cumyn's fiction focuses on personal and political relations, often in a cross-cultural context.
	www.writersunion.ca /c/cumyn.htm (114 words)

	The Blue Penny Quarterly, Summer '96
		Alan Cumyn's Between Families and the Sky (Goose Lane Editions, 1995) is a two part book which shows how children and their families cope with the deaths of a parent.
		With a freshness, Cumyn captures the joy Garland feels when she is staying at her rural respite: "Out here I feel like a dentist with a secret love of chocolate, a doctor who smokes, an aerobics instructor who can finally let her stomach sag.
		Cumyn, who has published one novel and one guide for people working and studying overseas prior to this novel, has settled in Ottawa, Canada.
	ebbs.english.vt.edu /olp/bpq/8/reviews/shey.html (725 words)

	Alan Cumyn in Bali and Jakarta (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Cumyn is one of Canada’s most exciting young authors and his works have been nominated for several literary awards in Canada, including the prestigious Governor General’s Award for Literature.
		Cumyn has also been invited to perform a reading at QB World Books in Jakarta, the largest English language bookstore in Indonesia.
		Alan Cumyn is at the forefront of this renaissance.
	www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /jakarta/alan_cumyn-en.asp (363 words)

	Used Book Central Search / author: alan cumyn
		Cumyn, Alan: McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 2000, FIRST EDITION, Signed by the Author on the Title Page, 8/10 in illustrated wrappers and French flaps as issued, small scar on front cover otherwise a nice clean copy.
		Cumyn, Alan: McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 2000, Advance Reading Copy of the First Edition, 8/10 in illustrated wrappers as issued, single diagonal crase on rear cover otherwise a fine unread copy.
		Cumyn, Alan: McClelland and Stewart, Toronto, 2001, FIRST EDITION, precedes the BPR Publishers First American Edition and the 2003 St. Martin's Press hardcover reissue, Signed by the Author on the Title Page, 9/10 in 9/10 dust-wrapper, a very fine unread copy.
	www.usedbookcentral.com /texis/ubc/searchbooks,author,alan+cumyn.html (230 words)

	Alan Cumyn
		Alan Cumyn's books include the celebrated children’s novel, The Secret Life of Owen Skye, and its sequel, After Sylvia, recently adapted for the stage.
		Alan, a writing mentor with Humber College, will gear workshops for the needs of particular classes.
		An arts career Alan Cumyn discusses the obstacles and rewards of pursuing a career in the arts.
	www.masconline.ca /english/artists/artists_literary_alanCumyn.htm (206 words)

	Bringing Canadian Arts to Indonesia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Alan Cumyn, author of seven novels, including "Man of Bone" and "The Sojourn", was the perfect Ambassador of Canadian Arts.
		Alan has won numerous literary awards, and his work has received popular and critical acclaim.
		Alan Cumyn and Jennifer Hart (2nd Secretary- Political) enjoy the vistas of Bali's rice fields during a meeting with the founders of next year's Ubud's Writer's Festival
	www.dfait-maeci.gc.ca /JAKARTA/BringingCanadianartstoIndonesia-en.asp (255 words)

	"Ottawa Public Library" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ottawa — Alan Cumyn will read from his latest novel Losing It, and from Burridge Unbound at the Nepean Central branch of the Ottawa Public Library on Tuesday, December 4 at 7:30 p.m., in Room 2A, 101 Centrepointe Drive.
		Alan Cumyn’s new novel, Losing It follows his gripping human rights drama Man of Bone and its companion volume Burridge Unbound.
		Alan was born in Ottawa and began writing poetry and short stories in high school.
	www.opl.ottawa.on.ca /english/news/2001/11-23-01.html (197 words)

	Varsity Review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This is Alan Cumyn's fourth novel and has been short-listed for the Giller Prize, yet at points his writing belies it.
		Where Man of Bone is a simple tale of incarceration and survival, Burridge Unbound has the shifting focus of a novel capturing the full complexity of a human being.
		Burridge Unbound substitutes vibrant colour for the monochrome of Man of Bone, and though this may trouble the reader's suspension of disbelief, it is better literature for it.
	www.varsity.utoronto.ca /archives/121/jan18/review/burr.html (532 words)

	Lorenzo Reading Series : Alan Cumyn
		Cumyn’s dark comedy, Losing It, is about a family that – in the space of one short week – "falls in upon itself." The catalyst for the collapse is Bob Sterling, professor of American literature, an Edgar Allan Poe specialist.
		In Cumyn’s "House of Usher," a house, and every dependable commonplace, comes to ruin.
		Alternating the voices of different characters, Cumyn takes us inside the comedic and certain chaos that is each character’s inner world.
	www.unbsj.ca /lorenzo/readingseries_2002/acumyn.html (326 words)

	Alan Cumyn - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Alan Cumyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
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	www.encyclopedia-glossary.com /en/Alan-Cumyn.html (103 words)

	Man of Bone - Alan Cumyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		This was one of the most chilling, interesting novels I’ve had the pleasure of reading this year.
		Alan Cumyn wastes no time jumping right into the mind of a terrified young man taken hostage by a group of amateur terrorists while on his first job outside of Canada.
		Alan Cumyn does a remarkable job in portraying one man’s fear of survival.
	www.unb.ca /web/bruns/0001/issue25/entertainment/book2.html (205 words)

	CM Magazine: The Secret Life of Owen Skye
		Cumyn has a knack for language that perfectly captures a poignant moment.
		This is a wonderful novel, one that makes you hope that award-winning author Alan Cumyn continues to write for young adults.
		With his adult novels drawing critical acclaim, it is clear that Alastair Macleod was not alone in believing that "Alan Cumyn is one of the best young writers in the country."
	www.umanitoba.ca /outreach/cm/vol9/no6/thesecretlifeofowen.html (670 words)

	Books: Cumyn, Alan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Cumyn's character Bill Burridge is captured during his diplomatic assignment on a third world tropical island.
		The book is gripping, horrifying at times, yet always eloquent.
		Main characters include Bob, a middle aged English professor, Julia, his substantially younger wife (former student)who is a slave...
	www.therightstitch.com /amazon/type_browse/mode_1044170 (82 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Sojourn: Books: Alan Cumyn (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Early in The Sojourn, Alan Cumyn's novel about the First World War, a group of soldiers sing to pass time in the trenches.
		“Cumyn crafts unforgettable characters, ingenious plots and dazzling prose, all in a unique voice.… He is destined to be one of Canada’s greats.… The Sojourn is a multi-layered novel of terrible beauty.”
		“Cumyn taps into a rich imaginative vein to bring his readers into the madness and fragmented experience of the trenches.”
	www.amazon.ca /Sojourn-Alan-Cumyn/dp/0771024924 (606 words)

	CANSCAIP Member Alan Cumyn
		Alan Cumyn has written two novels for children, both of which have garnered many honours.
		Alan Cumyn has taught creative writing in China and Indonesia and now serves as a writing mentor through the Humber School for Writers.
		Cumyn lives in Ottawa with his wife and two daughters.
	www.canscaip.org /bios/cumyna.html (171 words)

	The Sojourn
		With The Sojourn, Ottawan Alan Cumyn has fashioned a virtuoso sonata of a First World War novel.
		It all seems familiar somehow, which is part of Cumyn’s plan: The Sojourn, a credible war novel in its own right, also borrows the clichés and set pieces of the genre to cement the grimy realism of its opening.
		Cumyn’s great ability rests in the tonal shift between the desperate, forceful push of the first section and the dreamy interlude (the adagio) that follows.
	jeburns.0catch.com /reviews/sojourn.html (327 words)

	Gazette: The voice of Canada's University (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Editor’s note: Well-known Canadian author Alan Cumyn was on campus on March 8, 2005 to speak with students in the children’s literature course given by Professor Aida Hudson.
		This is her account of the session during which Cumyn answered questions about his craft from a keenly interested audience.
		Cumyn told them about the years he wrote and how many unpublished novels he penned before his first adult novel was accepted.
	web5.uottawa.ca /gazette/article_e_698.html (868 words)

	Westfest.ca
		Cumyn is the author of the novels, Waiting for Li Ming (1993), and Between Families and the Sky (1995).
		In 2002, Cumyn published his first novel for children, The Secret Life of Owen Sky.
		Cumyn's latest novel, The Sojourn (2003), is about a young Canadian private in the Great War who gets an unexpected leave to London.
	www.westfest.ca /public/site/default.asp?strPage=2004Artists_EN (3340 words)

	Highly rated young author next guest in Lorenzo Reading Series -- October 30, 2002 - News@UNB
		Already the author of five novels, including Man of Bone (1998) and the Giller Prize-nominated, Burridge Unbound (2000), Alan Cumyn has recently published his first children’s book, The Secret Life of Owen Skye, which has been nominated for this year’s (2002) Governor-General’s Award for Children’s Literature.
		In Losing It, “Cumyn turns from international and political terrorism to a domestic comedy of errors,” according to the Lorenzo Society brochure.
		Alternating the voices of different characters, Cumyn takes us inside the comedic and certain chaos that is each character's inner world....Losing It is a darkly delicious satire on the academy, a portrait of the wreck and resilience of one family."
	www.unb.ca /news/view.cgi?id=77 (216 words)

	Writers Festival 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		As a research officer for the Immigration and Refugee Board, Alan Cumyn has written on human rights in many of the world's most troubled areas.
		He is the author of four novels: Waiting for Li Ming, Between Families and the Sky, Man of Bone which was shortlisted for the Trillium Award, and most recently, Burridge Unbound.
		Alan Cumyn will be reading during the 3:00 pm READING SERIES on Saturday, September 16th in the NAC Studio.
	www.writersfest.com /oldsite/html/ACumyn.html (88 words)

	International Readings at Harbourfront (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Alan Cumyn will be reading from his new novel The Sojourn, a World War One tale about a young Canadian soldier who gets leave from the Ypres trenches and travels to London.
		Cumyn’s previous work includes the critically-acclaimed Losing It and Burridge Unbound, an Ottawa Book award winner and Giller Prize finalist.
		Cumyn’s Man of Bone was also an Ottawa Book award winner and was shortlisted for the Trillium Award, and his children’s book, The Secret Life of Owen Skye, was a finalist for a 2002 Governor General’s award.
	www.readings.org /bios/cumyn_alan.html (98 words)

	Cross Country Checkup - Booklist June 15/03
		One is called House, about two little girls with a father away in the mines who are left with their mother who is a pleasant alcoholic.
		The Sojourn, by Alan Cumyn (McClelland and Stewart, 2003)
		Has to deal with difference between life in Britain and Canada.
	www.cbc.ca /checkup/summer03.html (1421 words)

	Hackmatack: Press Release (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Alan Cumyn, the author of The Secret Life of Owen Skye was the winner in the English fiction category, Karen Levine received the English nonfiction award for her book Hana's Suitcase and the winner of the French category was Lucia Cavezzali for Opération Juliette.
		Alan Cumyn has several award-winning novels for adults, but this is his first for children.
		In Hana's Suitcase we find out about the history of the Holocaust through the experience of one 13-year-old Czechoslovakian girl and her family and the inspiring unearthing of Hanna's story by a young Japanese woman.
	www.hackmatack.ca /pr2004winners.html (323 words)

	Books at Book Clubs \| The Sojourn by Alan Cumyn
		Highly praised as one of the best novels of the First World War, Alan Cumyn’s The Sojourn tells the story of a young Canadian soldier’s emotional journey through duty, fear, and love.
		From the front lines at Ypres to the seductive streets of London to memories of a West Coast childhood, we follow Ramsay Crome, a private with the 7th Canadian Pioneers who has volunteered against his father’s wishes.
		“Cumyn crafts unforgettable characters, ingenious plots and dazzling prose, all in a unique voice.… He is destined to be one of Canada’s greats.… The Sojourn is a multi-layered novel of terrible beauty.”
	www.bookclubs.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780771024924 (511 words)

	Books at Book Clubs \| Losing It by Alan Cumyn
		“An amazing achievement.…I was swept up by Cumyn’s uncanny wisdom about the inside of the human mind, by his mesmerizing devotion to telling detail, by his vision of absurdity couched in lovable (or banal) ordinariness.
		Cumyn’s talent for fiction is absolutely original; it hits the reader (this one, at least) with the most refreshing and exhilarating shock.”
		“Cumyn is a gifted writer who’s demonstrated command of a wide breadth of theme.
	www.bookclubs.ca /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780771024894 (463 words)

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