Lesley Choyce

About the Author

Lesley Choyce was born in New Jersey in 1951 and moved to Canada in 1978. Choyce teaches part-time at Dalhousie University, runs Pottersfield Press and has written 40 adult and young adult books. Choyce also hosts a nationally syndicated TV talk show in Halifax. His recent novel, The Republic of show more Nothing is currently being developed as a feature length movie. In 1996, Viking/Penguin published Choyce's best-selling Nova Scotia: Shaped By The Sea. Along with the Surf Poets, he has released a poetry/music album titled Long Lost Planet. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Includes the names: Choyce Lesley, Lesley Choyce ed., Editor Lesley Choyce

Works by Lesley Choyce

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Sudden Impact (2005) 80 copies, 5 reviews

Thunderbowl (2004) 77 copies

Nova Scotia, Shaped by the Sea: A Living History (1996) 50 copies

The Republic of Nothing (1994) 45 copies, 3 reviews

Skate Freak (2008) 43 copies, 1 review

Refuge Cove (2002) 43 copies

Wave Warriors (2007) 42 copies, 2 reviews

Reaction (2010) 42 copies, 2 reviews

Running the Risk (2009) 39 copies, 1 review

Reckless (2010) 36 copies, 2 reviews

Deconstructing Dylan (2006) 30 copies, 3 reviews

Plank's law (2017) 27 copies, 13 reviews

Shoulder the Sky (2002) 27 copies, 3 reviews

Breaking Point (2012) 27 copies

Book of Michael (2008) 26 copies, 1 review

The Coasts of Canada: A History (2002) 23 copies

The End of the World As We Know It (2007) 22 copies, 1 review

Crash (Orca Soundings) (2013) 21 copies

The Mi'kmaq Anthology (1997) 18 copies

Smoke and Mirrors (2004) 17 copies

Random (2010) 17 copies

Rat (2012) 17 copies, 3 reviews

Sea of Tranquility: A Novel (2003) 16 copies, 1 review

Ark of Ice (1992) — Editor, Contributor — 15 copies, 1 review

Identify (Orca Soundings) (2017) 15 copies

Broken Man on a Halifax Pier (2019) 15 copies, 3 reviews

Off the Grid (Orca Soundings) (2015) 14 copies

The Unlikely Redemption of John Alexander MacNeil (2017) 14 copies, 1 review

Hell's Hotel (2008) 13 copies

Living Outside the Lines (2009) 13 copies

Cold Clear Morning (2001) 13 copies

Dumb Luck (2011) 12 copies, 1 review

Wrong Time, Wrong Place (1995) 12 copies

The Rules Have Changed (Orca Soundings) (2021) 10 copies

The Thing You're Good At (Orca Soundings) (2018) 10 copies

Atlantica: Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland (2001) 10 copies

Visions from the Edge: An Anthology of Atlantic Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (1981) — Editor — 10 copies

Jeremy Stone (2013) 10 copies

Go For It, Carrie (1997) 8 copies

Clearcut Danger (1993) 8 copies

Coastline of Forgetting (2002) 8 copies, 2 reviews

Accro d'la planche (2012) 8 copies

Into the Wasteland (2014) 8 copies

Nova Scotia: A Traveller's Companion: Over 300 Years of Travel Writing (2005) 8 copies

The Cape Breton Collection (1984) 7 copies

Scam (Orca Soundings) (2016) 7 copies

Second Season of Jonas McPherson (1989) 7 copies

Carrie Losses Her Nerve (2003) 7 copies

Kryptonite (2018) 7 copies

Carrie's Crowd (1998) 7 copies

Last Chance (2009) 7 copies, 1 review

An Avalanche of Ocean: The Life and Times of a Nova Scotia Immigrant (1987) 7 copies

Gone Bad (2011) 7 copies

The Ecstasy Conspiracy (Memoir / Algonquian and Iroquoian Linguistics) (1992) 7 copies

December Six (2002) 6 copies

Wave Watch (1994) 6 copies

Good Idea Gone Bad (1998) 6 copies

Eastern Sure (1980) 6 copies

World Enough (1998) 6 copies

Face the music (2022) 6 copies

Downwind (1984) 6 copies

Caution to the Wind (2000) 6 copies, 2 reviews

Dark End of Dream Street (1994) 6 copies

Big Burn (1995) 5 copies

Closing Down Heaven (2016) 5 copies

The Ledge (Orca Soundings) (2020) 5 copies

Coming up for Air (1988) 5 copies

Trapdoor to Heaven: New Fiction (1997) 5 copies

The Summer of Apartment X (1999) 5 copies

The End of Ice (1985) 5 copies

Around England with a Dog (2022) 5 copies

Carrie's Camping Adventure (2001) 5 copies

Full Tilt (1993) 5 copies

Falling through the Cracks (1996) 5 copies

Skateboard Shakedown (1993) 4 copies

Seven Ravens: Two Summers in a Life by the Sea (2009) 4 copies, 2 reviews

Peggy's Cove : the amazing history of a coastal village (2008) 4 copies

Beautiful Sadness (1998) 4 copies

Dance the Rocks Ashore (1997) 4 copies

Conventional Emotions (1985) 4 copies

Far Enough Island (2001) 4 copies

Famous at Last (1998) 4 copies

Raising Orion (2010) 4 copies, 2 reviews

The Nova Scotia book of fathers (2017) 3 copies

I’m Alive. I Believe in Everything (2013) 3 copies

Thin Places (2017) 3 copies

The Top of the Heart (1986) 3 copies

How to Fix your Head (2011) 3 copies

Alternating currents: A handbook of renewable energy for Atlantic Canada 3 copies

Transcendental Anarchy: Confessions of a Metaphysical Tourist (1993) 3 copies

Billy Botzweiler's Last Dance and Other Stories (1984) 3 copies

Revenge of the Optimist (2004) 3 copies

Typographical Eras (2003) 3 copies

The Mi’kmaq Anthology 2 copies

Re-Inventing the Wheel (1980) 2 copies

Roid Rage (1999) 2 copies

The Hungry Lizards (1990) 2 copies

Magnificent Obsessions: A Photo Novel (1994) 2 copies

Saltwater Chronicles: Notes on Everything Under the Nova Scotia Sun (2020) 2 copies, 1 review

1989 Nova Scotia Poetry Awards (1999) 2 copies

Long Lost Planet (1997) 2 copies

Skunks for Breakfast (2006) 2 copies

Driving Minnie's piano : memoirs of a surfing life in Nova Scotia (2011) 2 copies

Nova Scotia Love Stories (2017) 1 copy

Orca Currents GoReader Vol 2: (Skate Freak, Sewer Rats) (2011) 1 copy

Final Instructions {poem} 1 copy

High Water Mark: Stories of Atlantic Canada 1983-2023 (2023) 1 copy

State of the Ark: Canadian Futurefiction (2023) 1 copy, 1 review

Fast living (1982) 1 copy

Nova Scotia: Visions of the Future (2009) 1 copy

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Associated Works

Northern Stars: The Anthology of Canadian Science Fiction (1994) — Contributor — 83 copies

Tesseracts 3 (2002) — Contributor — 52 copies, 1 review

Tesseracts 1 (1985) — Contributor — 51 copies, 1 review

Tesseracts 4 (2002) — Contributor — 33 copies, 1 review

What If...? : Amazing Stories (1998) — Contributor — 32 copies, 1 review

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1951-03-21
Gender: male
Nationality: USA (birth)
Canada
Places of residence: Lawrencetown Beach, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Education: Rutgers University
City University of New York
Montclair State University
Occupations: instructor (Dalhousie University)
television host
Organizations: Pottersfield Press (Founding Director)
Awards and honors: The Dartmouth Book Award
Ann Connor Brimer Award

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Reviews

Broken Man on a Halifax Pier by Lesley Choyce

2.5 stars. I wasn't crazy about it but husband really liked it.

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Abcdarian | 2 other reviews | May 18, 2024 |

Caution to the Wind by Lesley Choyce

3.5 stars. Enjoyed some poems more than others, as one does, but generally they were clear and relatable, with some humour and many moments of recognition. (Read online on the author's website.)

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Abcdarian | 1 other review | May 18, 2024 |

Coastline of Forgetting by Lesley Choyce

3.5 stars. These poems reminded me of the poetry of Charles Bruce, dealing as they do with place and time and the Nova Scotia coast. Here is a sample:

The peace of this inner beach
and a pond filled with a ballet of rockweed
is a short reprieve
from the pace of measured life.
I collect this speck of time
like a dark, polished grain of sand
and stash it in my head
to see how long it takes
to leak back out
and leave me anchored again
on a stoney beach
of another tense tomorrow.

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Abcdarian | 1 other review | May 18, 2024 |

Raising Orion by Lesley Choyce

This is a book I enjoyed more on second reading. Both times I sank into Choyce's excellent writing, but this time I appreciated the later parts of the book and the ending more, I think because the first time I was mostly interested in the plot. He writes of deep things in a very approachable and clear way, or as clear as such things can be.

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