Evocative and superbly rakish, these essays are a generous diagnosis of the often offbeat worlds of family, writing, travel, sex and death as interpreted through the real life adventures of Susan Musgrave. Equally at home recounting the...
Authors, Canadian (English)
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Author:Musgrave, SusanSummary: -
Author:Musgrave, SusanSummary:Evocative and superbly rakish, these essays are a generous diagnosis of the often offbeat worlds of family, writing, travel, sex and death as interpreted through the real life adventures of Susan Musgrave. Equally at home recounting the...
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Author:Rule, JaneSummary:Jane Rule tells the story of her first twenty-one years of life. The manuscript was discovered in her papers in 2008, a year after her death.
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Author:Foran, CharlesSummary:Mordecai Richler won multiple awards for adult and children's fiction, and wrote Oscar-nominated screenplays. His influence was larger than life in Canada and abroad. Foran describes Mordecai's life as young bohemian,...
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Author:Cariou, WarrenSummary: -
Author:Leedahl, Shelley A.Summary:Some people claim they'd like to walk away from their lives -- Shelley A. Leedahl had the nerve to do it. Was it selfishness, or self-preservation? Drawing upon childhood memories, hikes, road trips, foreign travel, her self-...
- Author:Mowat, FarleySummary:
In 1947, Farley Mowat traveled to the Canadian arctic, that vast part of Canada which most Canadians never come to know. Twenty years later, Mowat returned for the most extensive northern trip of his life. In this book, Mowat chronicles...
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Author:Newman, Peter CharlesSummary:Peter C. Newman's autobiography, from his youth as a pampered child in a Czech chateau; to the Jewish kid in short pants being machine-gunned by Nazi fighter planes on the beach at Biarritz, en route to the last ship to escape...
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Author:Kogawa, JoySummary:Gently to Nagasaki is a spiritual pilgrimage, an exploration both communal and intensely personal. Set in Vancouver and Toronto, the outposts of Slocan and Coaldale, the streets of Nagasaki and the high mountains of Shikoku, Japan, it...
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Author:Loyie, Oskiniko LarrySummary:Tells the story of Larry Loyie, a Cree Indian in Canada, who was sent to a government school and later became a writer.
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Author:Sonik, MadelineSummary: -
Author:Summary:"A Queer Love Story presents the first fifteen years of letters between Jane Rule--novelist and the first widely recognized "public lesbian" in North America--and Rick Bébout, journalist and editor with the Toronto-based Body Politic,...
