The Vintage book of Canadian memoirs

Fetherling, George, 1949- (editor.).

Summary: "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. " -- publisher's description

Record details

ISBN: 9780679310624 :
ISBN: 0679310622 :
Physical Description: print
x, 582 pages ; 23 cm
Publisher: Toronto : Vintage Canada, 2001.
Copyright: ©2001

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references: p. 577-580.

Formatted Contents Note:

At Home and Abroad -- A Sense of the Ridiculous / Mordecai Richler -- Memoirs of Montparnasse / John Glassco -- I Come with My Songs / Elsa Gidlow -- Barrelhouse Kings / Barry Callaghan -- Escape from the Glue Factory / Joe Rosenblatt -- A Winnipeg Childhood / Dorothy Livesay -- Morning and It's Summer / Al Purdy -- The Follow / Linda Spalding -- Getting Started -- From Stage to Page / Timothy Findley -- The Last of the Terrible Men / Heather Robertson -- Uprootedness and Family -- Baba Was a Bohunk / Myrna Kostash -- Running in the Family / Michael Ondaatje -- Honey and Ashes / Janice Kulyk Keefer -- The Russian Album / Michael Ignatieff -- A Passage Back Home / Austin Clarke -- Island Wings / Cecil Foster -- Paradise, Piece by Piece / Molly Peacock -- Travels by Night / George Fetherling -- Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man / Eric Wright -- Tragedies, Choices and Losses -- Paper Shadows / Wayson Choy -- In My Father's House / Sylvia Fraser -- No Previous Experience / Elspeth Cameron -- After Daniel / Moira Farr -- Remembering Marian Engel / Margaret Atwood