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Join acclaimed Montreal author, actor, playwright and musician Norman Nawrocki as he presents his exciting new book, The East End Rules, An East Van Memoir (Black Rose Books, Montreal, 2026) about how he became an anarchist growing up in the lively 1960s and ‘70s Vancouver. With video clips and discussion.The East End Rules, An East Van Memoir is a remarkable coming of age and political awakening semi-fictionalized story set in Vancouver's once predominantly poor working-class immigrant East End (a.k.a. East Van), Nawrocki's birthplace.
Through the eyes of a young East Ender, Joey, we see the first 22 years of his intense life as a rabble-rousing student activist, journalist and community organizer. He's influenced by the city's flourishing radical counterculture and world events that help transform him into a principled lifelong anarchist.
Nawrocki has toured the world, performed for millions, released dozens of albums, written eighteen books of fiction, poetry and non-fiction and a few dozen theatre pieces.
The Montreal Gazette calls Nawrocki “A legend . . . one of the most fascinating folks on the cityscape." The Globe & Mail says he's “a born showman;” his shows “subversively powerful." The Vancouver Sun said his novella, Vancouvered Out (2024), was, "In the honoured tradition of George Orwell's Down and Out in Paris and London.”
The East End Rules, An East Van Memoir (distributed by University of Toronto Press Distribution, ISBN: 978-1-55164-834-7) is available in Camas Books & Infoshop now.
Book trailer:
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Camas Books & Infoshop, 2620 Quadra St, Victoria, BC V8T 4E4, Canada
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