Posts Tagged ‘Memoir’
The Man Who Forgot How To Read
“In Engel’s memoir, he relates the difficult journey from bookworm word-jockey to near-illiterate and back again; a successful mystery novelist in his native Canada, Engel awoke one morning to discover he’d lost the ability to read. Soon, he’s informed that he suffered a stroke while asleep, and is afflicted with alexia sine agraphia, a condition…
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HarperCollins Canada 2004 AN ACCIDENTAL CANADIAN Each week, more than one million people make Margaret Wente’s column in the Globe and Mail their first read of the day. Even more regularly seek her out on the Internet, placing her name on Google’s Top Ten search list of Canadian Women. Robert Fulford calls her “a voice all her…
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WILLIAM WEINTRAUB is the author of two novels, Why Rock the Boat and The Underdogs, and the non-fiction book, City Unique: Montreal Days and Nights in the 1940s and 1950s. McClelland & Stewart CAN/Oct 2001 O/P GETTING STARTED A Memoir of the 1950s With Letters From Mordecai Richler, Mavis Gallant, and Brian Moore. “Dear Bill:I got your highly unintellectual letter…
Read MoreA GOOD PLACE TO COME FROM
“Morley Torgov is a brilliant writer — ironic, sad, funny; his stories come out of that powerful mixture of ancient Jewish tradition and New World experience that has produced some of this country’s best literature.”Stephen Vizinczey Awards:The Leacock Medal For Humor Four-part TV series/1970sThree full-length plays by Israel Horovitz continue to be staged in U.S.…
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Marina Nemat Prisoner of Tehran “Prisoner of Tehran is an extraordinary story of survival and how one woman finally found inner peace through the written word.†Entertainment Weekly “Prisoner of Tehran is a gripping personal history…important and chillingly universal…â€New York Times “Gripping, elegantly written memoir…masterly.â€The Wall Street Journal “Nemat’s story…is a memoir of faith and love, a protest against…
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Read MoreAfter Tehran
“Prisoner of Tehran, Nemat’s brilliant 2007 memoir, was at once an exquisite work of art about the burden or memory, and an astonishing story… After Tehran is Nemat’s after-story: if the first book recounts her ordeal, the second counts the cost of telling about it…an account as graceful, honest, and revelatory as her original.”Brian BethuneMaclean’s Magazine “[a]…
Read MoreThrough the Glass
Praise for Through the Glass: “A compellingdocumentation of a flawed penal system, a nuanced look at the humanity of a violent criminal, and a snapshot of the cognitive dissonance required by romantic love. Most of all, it’s a meditation on forgiveness.”– Maclean’s “A remarkable story… of love and betrayal, of a horribly broken man’s hidden brutality and his ex-wife’s boundless…
Read MoreMy Mother’s Daughter
“My Mother’s Daughter is a wonderfully honest and enthralling book.â€Alice Munro “It is beautiful and honest and wry and funny and so moving….I certainly plan to urge my students, and everyone else I know, to read [this] book.â€Paula Caplan, author of Don’t Blame Mother: Mending the Mother-Daughter Relationship “A moving tribute to the unswerving, often unnerving matriarchal…
Read MoreAFTER THE SMOKE CLEARED
“After the Smoke Cleared is as valuable a personal chronicle of the restoration of order in the post-war world — and of the restoration of self, dignity, and family — as Child of the Holocaust was for its testimony about the disintegration of these things.”The Toronto Star -Toronto Jewish Book Award-finalist Edna Staebler/Creative Non-Fiction Stoddard CAN/94…
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“Remarkable . . . Gripping . . . a child’s struggle for survivalâ€The Globe and Mail “Astounding . . . a work that amounts to a letter from inside a nightmare . . . A miraculous example of the human spirit at its most resilient.â€Toronto Star “Artfully rendered . . . testifying to the spirit…
Read MoreOtto and Daria: A Wartime Journey Through No Man’s Land
Eric Koch who was born in Frankfurt in 1919, lives in Toronto. His grandfather was a court jeweler and his father was an officer in the German army in WWI. Eric was deported to Canada, interned as an enemy alien during WWII. On his release, he remained in Canada, making his career at the Canadian Broadcasting…
Read MoreIndian School Days
“This is an excellent look at the way assimilationist education really worked. Beautifully written, it manages to capture the subculture of student life that existed below the surface of institutional affairs; the world of the school boys—their wants, desires, and fears that school authorities never knew about or understood—is effectively recreated.â€Robert Trennert, Arizona State University “The…
Read MoreCRAZY DAVE
“This story…is absolutely riveting, partly because of the wonderful oral nature of Johnston’s writing here, and partly because it is told from a native point of view.”The Globe and Mail “As Dave McLeod and his family struggle in the constant battle of assimilation, of maintaining a unique culture, of finding work outside the reserve, with…
Read MoreTimea E. Nagy & Shannon Moroney
Timea E. Nagy & Shannon Moroney Out of the Shadows “I was twenty when I answered an ad in Budapest to be a babysitter in Canada, but the job was a lie. They took my passport, my money and my freedom. They almost took my life.†Timea had been lured by a ring of international human…
Read MoreJennifer Hosten
Jennifer Hosten was a Grenadian radio announcer, a development worker, a Canadian diplomat, who earned two M.A university degrees. She also is the mother of two grown children and the grandmother of five grandchildren. She lives in Oakville, Ontario, Canada, outside Toronto, and retains her connection to Grenada and the Caribbean. Jennifer Hosten Miss World 1970…
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