Best Canadian Essays 1990
by Douglas Fetherling, editor | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0920079636 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0920079636 Global Overview for this book
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From the back cover:
Welcome to the second annual Best Canadian Essays, a rewarding, diverting and often surprising selection of "personal journalism" by some of Canada's most highly skilled and magazine and newspaper contributors. Many of the names are instantly familiar: from Pierre Berton to George Woodcock, from Erna Paris to Mordercai Richler. But others are appearing in book form for the first time. Their voices are as varied as their subjects and the way the subjects are approached. Topical matters - free trade, true crime, AIDS, the environment - go hand in hand with abiding human concerns such as justice, compassion and death. Travel and culture get their airing, too. So do humor and baseball, the sociology of the automobile and history of perfume. Taken as a whole, Best Canadian Essays 1990 is a celebration of Canada's rich, and endangered, periodical culture. It is also a shadow agenda of the issues, concerns, personalties and diversions which are grabbing the country's attention.
The essays have been chosen and introduced by poet and writer Douglas Featherling, literary editor of the Kingston Whig-Standard.
The Writers: Pierre Berton, Meredith Chilton, Anne Collins, Camilla Cornell, Peter Desbarats, Paul Dutton, Michael Farber, George Galt, Maggie Helwig, Michael Ignatieff, John Mills, Rita Moir, Alice Munro, Joyce Nelson, Erna Paris, Wendy Penfield, Mordecai Richler, Witold Rybczynski, Geoffrey Smith, Anne Templeman-Kluit, Janice Williamson, Paul Wilson and George Woodcock
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Reserved for jessibud. This book along with Moon Handbooks: Alberta and the Northwest Territories is being sent to Toronto for the April 2006 North American BookCrossing Convention. To the lucky BCer who get this book: I wish I were there, and I hope you'll enjoy this book! :)
Mailed: 2 February 2006
From the back cover:
Welcome to the second annual Best Canadian Essays, a rewarding, diverting and often surprising selection of "personal journalism" by some of Canada's most highly skilled and magazine and newspaper contributors. Many of the names are instantly familiar: from Pierre Berton to George Woodcock, from Erna Paris to Mordercai Richler. But others are appearing in book form for the first time. Their voices are as varied as their subjects and the way the subjects are approached. Topical matters - free trade, true crime, AIDS, the environment - go hand in hand with abiding human concerns such as justice, compassion and death. Travel and culture get their airing, too. So do humor and baseball, the sociology of the automobile and history of perfume. Taken as a whole, Best Canadian Essays 1990 is a celebration of Canada's rich, and endangered, periodical culture. It is also a shadow agenda of the issues, concerns, personalties and diversions which are grabbing the country's attention.
The essays have been chosen and introduced by poet and writer Douglas Featherling, literary editor of the Kingston Whig-Standard.
The Writers: Pierre Berton, Meredith Chilton, Anne Collins, Camilla Cornell, Peter Desbarats, Paul Dutton, Michael Farber, George Galt, Maggie Helwig, Michael Ignatieff, John Mills, Rita Moir, Alice Munro, Joyce Nelson, Erna Paris, Wendy Penfield, Mordecai Richler, Witold Rybczynski, Geoffrey Smith, Anne Templeman-Kluit, Janice Williamson, Paul Wilson and George Woodcock
Reserved for jessibud. This book along with Moon Handbooks: Alberta and the Northwest Territories is being sent to Toronto for the April 2006 North American BookCrossing Convention. To the lucky BCer who get this book: I wish I were there, and I hope you'll enjoy this book! :)
Mailed: 2 February 2006
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This book is being sent to Toronto for the April 2006 North American BookCrossing Convention.
Mailed: 2 February 2006
This book is being sent to Toronto for the April 2006 North American BookCrossing Convention.
Mailed: 2 February 2006
Came in the mail for the Convention. Thanks! It will be exciting to see where it travels from here. Although Miss-Efficiency might take a peek at it in the meantime since she is taking writing courses right now which have renewed her interest in essays.
