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Peter Gzowski

Author : R.B. Fleming
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1770705392
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Peter Gzowski written by R.B. Fleming and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2010-08-27 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1934, Peter Gzowski covered most of the last half of the century as a journalist and interviewer. This biography, the most comprehensive and definitive yet published, is also a portrait of Canada during those decades, beginning with Gzowski's days at the University of Toronto's The Varsity in the mid 1950s, through his years as the youngest-ever managing editor of Maclean's in the 1960s and his tremendous success on CBC's Morningside in the 1980s and 1990s, and ending with his stint as a Globe and Mail columnist at the dawn of the 21st century and his death in January 2002. Gzowski saw eight Canadian Prime Ministers in office, most of whom he interviewed, and witnessed everything from the Quiet Revolution in Québec to the growth of economic nationalism in Canada's West. From the rise of state medicine to the decline of the patriarchy, Peter was there to comment, to resist, and to participate. Here was a man who was proud to call himself Canadian and who made millions of other Canadians realize that Canada was, in what he claimed was a Canadian expression, not a bad place to live.

Kurt Vonnegut Remembered

Author : Jim O'Loughlin
Publisher : University Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817320113
Total Pages : 261 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Kurt Vonnegut Remembered written by Jim O'Loughlin and published by University Alabama Press. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of reminiscences that illuminate the career and private life of the iconic author of 'Slaughterhouse-Five' Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007), who began his writing career working for popular magazines, held both literary aspirations and an attraction to genre fiction. His conspicuous refusal to respect literary boundaries was part of what made him a countercultural icon in the 1960s and 1970s. Vonnegut’s personal life was marked in large part by public success and private turmoil. Two turbulent marriages, his sudden adoption of his late sister’s four children (and the equally sudden removal of one of those children), and a mid-eighties suicide attempt all signaled the extent of Vonnegut’s inner troubles. Yet, he was a generous friend to many, maintaining close correspondences throughout his life. Kurt Vonnegut Remembered gathers reminiscences—by those who knew him intimately, and from those met him only once—that span Vonnegut’s entire life. Among the anecdotes in this collection are remembrances from his immediate family, reflections from his comrades in World War II, and tributes from writers he worked with in Iowa City and from those who knew him when he was young. Editor Jim O’Loughlin offers biographical notes on Vonnegut’s relationship with each of these figures. Since Vonnegut’s death, much has been written on his life and work, but this new volume offers a more generous view of his life, particularly his last years. In O’Loughlin’s introduction to the volume, he argues that we can locate and understand Vonnegut’s best self through his public persona, and that in his performance as the kind and humane figure that many of the speakers here knew him as, Vonnegut became a better person than he ever felt himself to be.

Canadian Book Review Annual

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 656 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Canadian Book Review Annual written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Recherches Théâtrales Au Canada

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 458 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Recherches Théâtrales Au Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 458 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Game of Our Lives

Author : Peter Gzowski
Publisher : Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN 13 : 177203035X
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Game of Our Lives written by Peter Gzowski and published by Heritage House Publishing Co. This book was released on 2014-04-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this bestselling timeless classic, Peter Gzowski recounts the 1980-81 season he spent travelling around the NHL circuit with the Edmonton Oilers. These were the days when the young Oilers, led by a teenaged Wayne Gretzky, were poised on the edge of greatness, and about to blaze their way into the record books and the consciousness of a nation. While the story of the early Oilers embodies the book, The Game of Our Lives is much more than a retelling of one season in the life of an NHL team. Unlike any book ever written in the annals of hockey, Gzowski beautifully weaves together the anatomy of a modern NHL team with the magnificent history of the game to create one of the best books about hockey in Canada. Here are the great teams and the great players through the ages—Morenz, Richard, Howe, Orr, Hull—the men whose rare and indefinable genius on the ice exemplified the speed, grit and innovation of the game.

Discoveries

Author : Robertson Davies
Publisher : Douglas Gibson Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Discoveries written by Robertson Davies and published by Douglas Gibson Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On his publishers: They are so insufferably pretentious in theory and such botchers in practice. On his role as Master: God, how I loathe the young. Do you suppose we were such grasping, crooked, self-important cabbageheads as these? On projected BBC radio talks: They want me to give Marchbanks' impressions of Britain. They seem to have some notion that I am a newcomer to these shores, chewing tobacco and swinging my lariat as I gape at the sights. I shall strive to oblige. Robertson Davies was 25 and a student at Oxford when these letters begin. By the end of the book, in 1975, he has become the magisterial author of the "Deptford Trilogy, Fifth Business, The Manticore and "World of Wonders. The letters show us his career in all its variety. He was - among other things - an actor at the Old Vic in London, a newspaperman in Peterborough, Ontario, and a playwright who writes despairingly that "I am getting to hate and despise actors more every day." A surprising theme is his constant disappointment with his achievements. Although happily married with three daughters, the editor of a respected newspaper, a major national book reviewer, and the author of several well-received plays and half a dozen books, he feels that he has failed. Even when in 1961 he switches careers to become the founding Master of Massey College and to teach Drama at the University of Toronto his doubts persist. It is only in the later years that he begins to sense that his life has not been wasted. The book's greatest charm, however, lies in his letters to the great (letters to H.L. Mencken, Alfred Knopf, Hugh Maclennan, Tyrone Guthrie, Margaret Laurence, among others) and to the not-so-great -like the arrogant applicant for a job at his newspaper who received blistering advice on professionalism. All are written with great style appropriate to the occasion. For above all Robertson Davies was a professional. His astonishingly revealing letters show a promising young man turning into a great literary figure.

CTV-The Network That Means Business

Author : Michael Nolan
Publisher : University of Alberta
ISBN 13 : 9780888643841
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book CTV-The Network That Means Business written by Michael Nolan and published by University of Alberta. This book was released on 2001-12 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michael Nolan follows the evolution of CTV from a group of small independent television stations across Canada to the powerful network it is today. He chronicles the boardroom struggles within the network as strong personalities clashed over economic and cultural matters.

Essay Essentials with Readings

Author : Sarah Norton
Publisher : Scarborough, Ont. : Thomson Nelson
ISBN 13 : 9780176407049
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Essay Essentials with Readings written by Sarah Norton and published by Scarborough, Ont. : Thomson Nelson. This book was released on 2005-11 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Full of tips, examples, and exercises, Essay Essentials with Readings 4e takes a straightforward, practical approach to writing by emphasizing the key writing steps (planning, drafting, revising, editing) and how to apply them to essay composition. Interspersed readings appeal to students while illustrating the various rhetorical modes. While the focus of this text is on essay writing skills and techniques, the fourth edition also contains a review of sentence-level composition.

The Journal of Commonwealth Literature

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 694 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Journal of Commonwealth Literature written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 694 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One number each year includes Annual bibliography of Commonwealth literature.

Remembering Peter Gzowski

Author : Edna Barker
Publisher : Douglas Gibson Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remembering Peter Gzowski written by Edna Barker and published by Douglas Gibson Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Peter Gzowski died in January 2002, millions of Canadians felt a sense of bereavement. The magical intimacy of radio had meant that for them Peter Gzowski was a friend, one they would miss. So they poured out their feelings with rare eloquence, in newspapers, magazines and on CBC Radio. This book collects the best of these tributes. The contributors include some of the most thoughtful and articulate people in the country: writers like Alice Munro and Jane Urquhart; fellow journalists like Robert Fulford; broadcasters like Michael Enright; and commentators like Stuart Maclean and Rex Murphy. Yet matching the contributions by the great and famous, the people who knew Peter Gzowski well, are the memories sent in by ordinary Canadians - from their tractors or fishing boats or their kitchens or offices - who felt that they knew him, and whose lives he had touched. By letter, by e-mail and in phone calls they sent in their memories, touching, affectionate, varied, often surprising and in summary forming a delightful tribute. The selection of the very best of these tributes was made by Peter's long-time editor Edna Barker, his partner Gill Howard, and by his colleague Shelagh Rogers. Royalties from this book will go to two of Peter Gzowski's favourite charities - Frontier College, to fight illiteracy, and Trent University's Peter Gzowski Scholarship, to encourage greater contact between Trent students and Canada's North.

Teeth of Time

Author : Ramsay Cook
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773578692
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)

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Download or read book Teeth of Time written by Ramsay Cook and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2006-08-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trudeau, the most intellectual of Canadian prime ministers, turned to Cook, an illustrious historian and a speech-writer during the 1968 election campaign, for his trusted views. Cook's revealing memoir also traces how public affairs and the central political themes of Trudeau's reign – nationalism, federalism, and constitutional reform – continued to drive their relationship after Trudeau's resignation in 1984.

The Theatre of Regret

Author : David Gaertner
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774865385
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)

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Download or read book The Theatre of Regret written by David Gaertner and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2020-11-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Canadian public largely understands reconciliation as the harmonization of Indigenous–settler relations for the benefit of the nation. But is this really happening? Reconciliation politics, as developed in South America and South Africa, work counter to retributive justive in order to redress the divide opened up between survivors and perpetrators as a result of historical violence. The Theatre of Regret asks whether, within the context of settler colonialism, this approach will ultimately favour the state over the needs and requirements of Indigenous peoples. Interweaving literature, art, and other creative media throughout his analysis, David Gaertner questions the state-centred frameworks of reconciliation by exploring the critical roles that Indigenous and allied authors, artists, and thinkers play in defining, challenging, and refusing settler regret. Through close examination of its core concepts – acknowledgement, apology, redress, and forgiveness – this study exposes the colonial ideology at the root of reconciliation in Canada.

Stories About Storytellers

Author : Douglas Gibson
Publisher : ECW/ORIM
ISBN 13 : 1770900497
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (79 download)

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Download or read book Stories About Storytellers written by Douglas Gibson and published by ECW/ORIM. This book was released on 2011-10-01 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The legendary Canadian book editor presents this “remarkable, four-decade romp through the back rooms of publishing” (Toronto Sun). Scottish-born Douglas Gibson was drawn to Canada by the writing of Stephen Leacock—and eventually made his way across the Atlantic to find a job in book publishing, where he edited a biography of none other than Leacock. But over the decades, his stellar career would lead him to work with many more of the country’s leading literary lights. This memoir shares stories of working—and playing—alongside writers including Robertson Davies, Mavis Gallant, Brian Mulroney, Val Ross, W. O. Mitchell, and many more. Gibson reveals the projects he brainstormed for Barry Broadfoot; how he convinced future Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro to keep writing short stories; his early-morning phone call from a former prime minister; and his recollection of yanking a manuscript right out of Alistair MacLeod’s reluctant hands—which ultimately garnered the author one of the world’s most prestigious prizes for fiction. Insightful and entertaining, this collection of tales goes behind the scenes and between the covers to divulge a treasure trove of literary adventures. “He makes his life in publishing sound like great fun.” —The Globe and Mail (Toronto)

On Six Continents

Author : James K. Bartleman
Publisher : Douglas Gibson Books
ISBN 13 : 1551994542
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book On Six Continents written by James K. Bartleman and published by Douglas Gibson Books. This book was released on 2011-03-04 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Muskoka, the University of Western Ontario, Ottawa, New York, Colombia, Bangladesh, Nicaragua, Peru, Cuba, Israel, Belgium, South Africa, Australia –the place-names tell the story of an amazing career. Then there are the people involved –Trudeau, Clark, and Chrétien, Kissinger, Castro, Rabin, Walesa, Havel, Mandela and dozens of others. Not to mention the moments of high drama: when young Jim Bartleman becomes Ottawa’s security expert on terrorism during the FLQ crisis in 1970; or when he leads the movement to bring countries like Poland and Ukraine into NATO and the West. But this is also a light-hearted look at what our diplomats actually do and is full of funny stories: so watch young Jim attend a drunken party with Trudeau; compete with Mother Teresa for Bangladesh babies; or sweep his Belgian bride off her feet to the altar. Bartleman also writes candidly about falling prey to depression, and about his concern, as a native Canadian, to see aboriginal peoples well treated. In summary, a richly varied career, as the only Canadian diplomat to serve on all six continents, well told by a remarkable character. *** On Six Continents is a Douglas Gibson Book.

Books In Print 2004-2005

Author : Ed Bowker Staff
Publisher : R. R. Bowker
ISBN 13 : 9780835246422
Total Pages : 3274 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (464 download)

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Download or read book Books In Print 2004-2005 written by Ed Bowker Staff and published by R. R. Bowker. This book was released on 2004 with total page 3274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Gene Kiniski

Author : Steven Verrier
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476674833
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Gene Kiniski written by Steven Verrier and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gene Kiniski (1928-2010) was internationally known to a generation of wrestling fans and to Canadians everywhere as "Canada's Greatest Athlete." Older fans and wrestling historians remember him best for his accomplishments in the ring, his run-'em-over approach to the game, his growly demeanor, and his razor wit he could unleash at will. Drawing on recollections from fellow wrestlers, promoters, and friends, this first biography of Kiniski gives a full account of the life of a champion pro wrestler who won over fans throughout the United States, Canada, and Japan in a career spanning more than three decades.

Herding Beans

Author : Linda Penton
Publisher : WestBow Press
ISBN 13 : 1449758134
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (497 download)

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Download or read book Herding Beans written by Linda Penton and published by WestBow Press. This book was released on 2012-10 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book although full of stories taken from a childhood spent in the country and family life in the city is really about the frustrations and triumphs that are part of the human experience. These true stories will make you laugh one minute and cry the next as you read the scenarios taken from the interaction among people, animals, and the weather. They are all stitched together with lessons taken from God's Word. You'll enjoy fascinating stories from farm life in the fifties; lessons learned and rites of passage; snapshots of a country family; praise for the Creator; lessons about marriage and divorce; fun with children and grandchildren; a testimony from a lifelong relationship with God.