Go-Boy!, the Glossary
Go-Boy! Memoirs of a Life Behind Bars is an autobiography by Roger Caron, written while incarcerated at Collins Bay Institution, in which he chronicles two decades of crime and prison escapes.[1]
Table of Contents
24 relations: Bend It Like Beckham, Canada, Collins Bay Institution, Cornwall Standard-Freeholder, Cornwall, Ontario, Documentary Channel (Canadian TV channel), Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction, Governor General's Awards, Hardcover, Kingston Canadian Film Festival, Neil Jordan, Orlando Film Festival, Paperback, Pierre Berton, Pierre Trudeau, Prison slang, Raindance Film Festival, Robert Bruce Lindsay, Roger Caron, Ryerson Press, Solitary confinement, The Crying Game, Toronto Sun, Windsor International Film Festival.
- Canadian memoirs
- Governor General's Award-winning non-fiction books
Bend It Like Beckham
Bend It Like Beckham is a 2002 sports comedy-drama film directed by Gurinder Chadha from a screenplay by Chadha, Paul Mayeda Berges, and Guljit Bindra.
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Canada
Canada is a country in North America.
Collins Bay Institution
Collins Bay Institution (Établissement de Collins Bay) is a multilevel correctional facility in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and falls under the supervision of Correctional Services of Canada.
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Cornwall Standard-Freeholder
The Cornwall Standard-Freeholder is a daily newspaper based in Cornwall, Ontario, Canada.
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Cornwall, Ontario
Cornwall is a city in Eastern Ontario, Canada, situated where the provinces of Ontario and Quebec and the state of New York converge.
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Documentary Channel (Canadian TV channel)
Documentary Channel (stylized as documentary channel) is a Canadian English language Category A specialty channel owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC), the National Film Board of Canada and four other independent producers.
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Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction
The Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction is a Canadian literary award that annually recognizes one Canadian writer for a non-fiction book written in English. Go-Boy! and Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction are governor General's Award-winning non-fiction books.
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Governor General's Awards
The Governor General's Awards are a collection of annual awards presented by the governor general of Canada, recognizing distinction in numerous academic, artistic, and social fields.
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Hardcover
A hardcover, hard cover, or hardback (also known as hardbound, and sometimes as casebound (At p. 247.)) book is one bound with rigid protective covers (typically of binder's board or heavy paperboard covered with buckram or other cloth, heavy paper, or occasionally leather).
Kingston Canadian Film Festival
The Kingston Canadian Film Festival (abbreviated as KCFF) is an all-Canadian film festival held in Kingston, Ontario.
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Neil Jordan
Neil Patrick Jordan (born 25 February 1950) is an Irish film director, screenwriter, novelist and short-story writer.
Orlando Film Festival
The Orlando Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Orlando, Florida, for independent filmmakers to showcase their work.
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Paperback
A paperback (softcover, softback) book is one with a thick paper or paperboard cover, and often held together with glue rather than stitches or staples.
Pierre Berton
Pierre Francis de Marigny Berton, CC, O.Ont. (July 12, 1920 – November 30, 2004) was a Canadian historian, writer, journalist and broadcaster.
Pierre Trudeau
Joseph Philippe Pierre Yves Elliott Trudeau (October 18, 1919 – September 28, 2000) was a Canadian lawyer and politician who served as the 15th prime minister of Canada from 1968 to 1979 and from 1980 to 1984.
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Prison slang
Prison slang is an argot used primarily by criminals and detainees in correctional institutions.
Raindance Film Festival
Raindance is an independent film festival and film school that operates in major cities including London, Los Angeles, New York, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Budapest, Berlin, and Brussels.
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Robert Bruce Lindsay
Robert Bruce Lindsay (1 January 1900 – 2 March 1985) was an American physicist and physics professor, known for his prolific authorship of physics books in acoustics, and historical and philosophical analyses of physics.
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Roger Caron
Roger "Mad Dog" Caron (April 12, 1938 – April 11, 2012) was a Canadian robber and the author of the influential prison memoir Go-Boy! Memories of a Life Behind Bars (1978).
Ryerson Press
Ryerson Press was a Canadian book publishing company, active from 1919 to 1970.
Solitary confinement
Solitary confinement is a form of imprisonment in which an incarcerated person lives in a single cell with little or no contact with other people.
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The Crying Game
The Crying Game is a 1992 crime thriller film, written and directed by Neil Jordan, produced by Stephen Woolley and Nik Powell, and starring Stephen Rea, Miranda Richardson, Jaye Davidson, Adrian Dunbar, Ralph Brown, and Forest Whitaker.
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Toronto Sun
The Toronto Sun is an English-language tabloid newspaper published daily in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Windsor International Film Festival
The Windsor International Film Festival (WIFF) is a cultural, charitable organization whose mission is to recognize and celebrate the art of cinema by showcasing Canadian and International films and filmmakers.
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See also
Canadian memoirs
- 1982 (book)
- A Leaf in the Bitter Wind
- A Stranger at Home
- Adventures in Solitude
- Aftermath: On Marriage and Separation
- Aki-wayn-zih
- Alfabet/alphabet
- Alone: A Love Story
- An Imperfect Offering
- Beyond the Sky and Earth
- Black Water (memoir)
- Breaking the Ocean
- Burning Down the House (memoir)
- Common Ground (memoir)
- Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla
- Einstein Wrote Back
- Fatty Legs
- From Stone Orchard
- From the Ashes (memoir)
- Go-Boy!
- Halfbreed (book)
- Heart Berries
- High School (book)
- How to Be a Bawse
- How to Piss in Public
- I'm So Glad We Had This Time Together
- Judgment Day: My Years with Ayn Rand
- Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian
- Letters from the Lost
- Lost: A Memoir
- Not My Girl
- Not Yet: A Memoir of Living and Almost Dying
- Nowhere but Up
- Pageboy (memoir)
- Paying for It
- Rolling Home: A Cross Canada Railroad Memoir
- Run Towards the Danger
- Running in the Family (memoir)
- Shame on Me (memoir)
- Stardust (Serafin book)
- The Answer Is...
- The Last Island
- The Masked Rider: Cycling in West Africa
- The Tower of Babble
- Then They Came for Me
- This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart
- To Russia with Fries
- Two Trees Make a Forest
Governor General's Award-winning non-fiction books
- Aki-wayn-zih
- Alfabet/alphabet
- Canadian Mosaic
- Go-Boy!
- Governor General's Award for English-language non-fiction
- Governor General's Award for French-language non-fiction
- Hantises
- Klee Wyck
- Lakeland: Journeys into the Soul of Canada
- Peacemakers (book)
- Shake Hands with the Devil (book)
- The Ingenuity Gap
- The Last Spike (book)
- This Red Line Goes Straight to Your Heart
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go-Boy!
Also known as Go-Boy.