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East Side story : growing up at the PNE / Nick Marino.
Van Pelt Library S557.C32 V366 2023
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Marino, Nick, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Marino, Nick--Childhood and youth.
- Marino, Nick.
- Pacific National Exhibition (Vancouver, B.C.).
- Pacific National Exhibition (Vancouver, British Columbia).
- Agricultural exhibitions--British Columbia--Vancouver.
- Agricultural exhibitions.
- Fairs--British Columbia--Vancouver.
- Fairs.
- Exhibitions--British Columbia--Vancouver.
- Exhibitions.
- Vancouver (B.C.)--Biography.
- Vancouver (B.C.).
- Childhood and youth of a person.
- British Columbia--Vancouver.
- Genre:
- autobiographies (literary works)
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- 235 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Vancouver : Robin's Egg Books, an imprint of Arsenal Pulp Press, [2023]
- Summary:
- "A sly, sentimental, and wickedly funny memoir about growing up at the local fair. The PNE (Pacific National Exhibition) is a Vancouver tradition, an annual fair started in 1910 that is famous for its farm animals, dog trick shows, and amusement park - highlighted by Canada's oldest wooden roller coaster still in existence. In 1980, when Nick Marino was twelve years old, he started working at the PNE and quickly learned that there was more to the fair than winning stuffed animals and eating mini donuts. He had to contend with belligerent bosses, unhinged carnies, and teenage hustlers. In this funny, charming memoir of fair life, Marino revisits the "Wild West" of the city's East Side, home to the PNE, sharing stories from his six summers working at the fair, where arcade bouncers went on midnight roller coaster rides, riots broke out at concerts, and local kids helped themselves to everything. With beguiling and at times poignant humour, he pulls back the curtain on the culture of carnivals and fairs, an unpredictable and eternally young world of players, scammers, and dreamers."-- Provided by publisher.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Marino, Nick. East Side story.
- ISBN:
- 1551529335
- 9781551529332
- OCLC:
- 1371279957
- Publisher Number:
- 99994920832
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