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Author: King, JamesSummary:
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Author: King, JamesSummary:
Traces the life of the Canadian author, describing his atypical childhood, difficult Army life, two marriages, volatile relationship with his father, leftist political views, and efforts as a...
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Author: King, JamesSummary:
Late in her life, acclaimed novelist Elizabeth Delamere makes a request of her therapist, Doctor Newman: she asks him to oversee the publication of her last book after she dies. It is a memoir in...
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Author: King, JamesSummary:
Thomas Wainewright - Regency fop, literary hanger-on, collector of art and artifacts, forger and deported felon - is considered one of the most notorious of English murderers. He is believed to...
Genre: Canadian fiction, General fiction -
Author: King, JamesSummary:
2016 Hamilton Arts Council Literary Award for Non-Fiction — Winner David Milne is one of Canada’s finest artists, a man whose work speaks to the intricate beauty of the world as he experienced it...
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Author: King, JamesSummary:
The long-awaited biography of one of Canada’s most intriguing and beguiling artists. Do artists really thrive in big cities, or do they just learn to imitate New York? Is it a contradiction for...
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Author: King, JamesSummary:
English novelist Guy Boyd's publisher forces him, against his inclination, to write a biography of the late Gabriel Brown, an eminent dealer in Old Masters. From the start, the project rattles the...
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Author: King, JamesSummary:
"Set in nineteenth-century Tokyo and twentieth-century Boston, Pure Inventions tells of the incredible adventures of Hiroshiprankster, forger, authenticator, and artist. The son of a Japanese...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Historical fiction -
Author: King, JamesSummary:
To all who knew him, Etienne Morneau lived unremarkably. Raised in an orphanage, his parents unknown, people considered him reserved, unfeeling, and antisocial. His death would have gone unnoticed...
Genre: Canadian fiction, Diary fiction