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A JOURNEY THROUGH CANADA'S FORGOTTEN, NEGLECTED AND SUPPRESSED WRITING

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Showing posts with label Political novels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Political novels. Show all posts
13 June 2022

An Old Novel of Misspent Youth

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Blaze of Noon Jeann Beattie Toronto: Ryserson, 1950 353 pages The sixth winner of Ryerson's in-house All-Canada Fiction Award , the publ...
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17 February 2016

The Strange Satanic Canada of a Future Past

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For My Country [ Pour la patrie: roman du XXe siecle ] Jules-Paul Tardivel [Sheila Fischman, trans] Toronto: University of Toronto...
15 October 2013

Beware the Savage Jaw of 1981

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Red Maple:   How Canada Became the People's Republic of Canada in 1981 Kenneth McDonald Richmond Hill, ON: BMG Publishing, 1975 ...
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Brian Busby
A writer, ghostwriter, écrivain public, literary historian and bibliophile, I'm the author of Character Parts: Who's Really Who in CanLit (Knopf, 2003), and A Gentleman of Pleasure: One Life of John Glassco, Poet, Translator, Memoirist and Pornographer (McGill-Queen's UP, 2011; shortlisted for the Gabrielle Roy Prize). I've edited over a dozen books, including The Heart Accepts It All: Selected Letters of John Glassco (Véhicule, 2013) and George Fetherling's The Writing Life: Journals 1975-2005 (McGill-Queen's UP, 2013). I currently serve as series editor for Ricochet Books and am a contributing editor for Canadian Notes & Queries. My most recent book is The Dusty Bookcase (Biblioasis, 2017), a collection of revised and expanded reviews first published here and elsewhere.
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