Editor George Fetherling, himself the author of an acclaimed memoir, Travels by Night: A Memoir of the Sixties , has selected twenty-four literary memoirs by well-known Canadian writers for this unique and timely anthology. Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family , Margaret Atwood's Remembering Marian Engel , Timothy Findley's From Stage to Page , and Mordercai Richler's A Sense of the Ridiculous are just a few of the fascinating selections. George Fetherling's lively and thoughtful introduction sheds light on the ...
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Editor George Fetherling, himself the author of an acclaimed memoir, Travels by Night: A Memoir of the Sixties , has selected twenty-four literary memoirs by well-known Canadian writers for this unique and timely anthology. Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family , Margaret Atwood's Remembering Marian Engel , Timothy Findley's From Stage to Page , and Mordercai Richler's A Sense of the Ridiculous are just a few of the fascinating selections. George Fetherling's lively and thoughtful introduction sheds light on the characteristics that make the memoir genre so unique, a genre for which Canadians seem to have a particular passion. The anthology is divided into four thematically grouped sections, each with its own preface written by the editor -- At Home and Abroad; Getting Started; Uprootedness and Family; and Tragedies, Choices and Losses. There is also a comprehensive bibliography.
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