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Canadian fictionBiography, Literature biography, Family biography, Women biography
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As Leo Tolstoy's wife, Sophia Tolstoy experienced both glory and condemnation during their forty-eight-year marriage. Drawing on newly available archival…
material, including Sophia's unpublished memoir, Alexandra Popoff presents a dramatically different and accurate portrait of the woman and the marriage. Some descriptions of sex. c2010.
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Canadian fictionBiography, Literature biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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Douze récits d'enfance sur la découverte du cinéma. L'auteur ouvre la porte aux souvenirs et commence l'exploration à rebours des…
moments drôles et tragiques qui ont tracé sa ligne de vie et éveillé ses passions et ses états nationalistes. Une enfance à fleur de peau qui nous vaut douze coups au coeur! 1992.
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Canadian fictionAward winning non-fiction, Biography, Literature biography, Canadian non-fiction, Canadian authors (Non-fiction)
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Cariou's memoir on growing up in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, where he witnessed the discrimination, anger and fear directed at the…
town's Cree and Métis populations by the European settlers. While he has absorbed these prejudices as his own, he is forced to confront the politics of race as an adult. Then, he discovers secrets that his family had kept hidden for generations, secrets that would alter forever his sense of identity and belonging in Meadow Lake. Winner of the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize of the 2003 Writers' Trust of Canada Awards. 2002.
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Canadian fictionBiography, Literature biography, Family biography, History, Asian history, War
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In 2003, journalist Ghafour was sent to Afghanistan, which she had fled in 1981, to cover the country's reconstruction. In…
a place totally changed from the world her parents had described, she discovered a school which teaches women a new kind of independence, her cousin's determined parliamentary campaign, and the archaeologist digging for his country's lost civilization in the form of a giant sleeping Buddha. Some descriptions of violence. 2007.
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Canadian fiction, Short storiesLiterature biography, Canadian biography, Canadian non-fiction
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An anthology of interviews and unpublished work from 17 of Canada's finest younger authors. The writers include Esta Spalding and…
Michael Winter to Derek McCormack, Steven Heighton, and Eden Robinson. Each writer has provided not only a manuscript page facsimile but also a previously unpublished piece of fiction or poetry along with their interview. Some descriptions of sex and violence, some strong language. 2002.
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Canadian fictionLiterature biography, Criticism, Social issues
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Timothy Findley (1930-2002) was one of Canada's foremost writers—an award-winning novelist, playwright, and short-story writer who began his career as…
an actor in London, England. Findley was instrumental in the development of Canadian literature and publishing in the 1970s and 80s . During those years, he became a vocal advocate for human rights and the anti-war movement. His writing and interviews reveal a man concerned with the state of the world, a man who believed in the importance of not giving in to despair, despite his constant struggle with depression. Findley believed in the power of imagination and creativity to save us. Tiff: A Life of Timothy Findley is the first full biography of this eminent Canadian writer. Sherrill Grace provides insight into Findley's life and struggles through an exploration of his private journals and his relationships with family, his beloved partner, Bill Whitehead, and his close friends, including Alec Guinness, William Hutt, and Margaret Laurence. Based on many interviews and exhaustive archival research, this biography explores Findley's life and work, the issues that consumed him, and his often profound depression over the evils of the twentieth-century. Shining through his darkness are Findley's generous humour, his unforgettable characters, and his hope for the future. These qualities inform canonic works like The Wars (1977), Famous Last Words (1981), Not Wanted on the Voyage (1984), and The Piano Man's Daughter (1995)
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French Canadian fiction, Canadian fictionLiterature biography
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Zoé Rose s'interroge. Sur le corps et sur l'amour, la volonté et le désir, la création et l'intellect. On la…
rencontre alors qu'elle commence les études en histoire de l'art qui la mèneront à l'écriture d'une thèse sur Refus global, puis à l'enseignement. Chemin faisant, elle observe en même temps qu'elle les vit les inégalités entre les sexes, les classes sociales, les statuts économiques. Exigeante, elle s'observe aussi elle-même et ne craint pas de mettre à l'épreuve les discours dominants, d'où qu'ils viennent.Dans ce roman court et dense, France Théoret poursuit sa quête d'une voix authentique et proprement féminine. La pensée de Zoé, fulgurante par le regard qu'elle porte sur la société, la politique et l'art, est la pensée d'une femme délibérément décalée du quotidien et, par là même, résolument dans la vie
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French Canadian fiction, Canadian fictionLiterature biography
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Dans ce récit, Francine Ruel part à la recherche d'un père perdu, afin de détenir quelque chose de tangible pour…
remplir les espaces vides, colmater les trous. Elle vient raconter une histoire qu'elle ne connaît pas, en fait, ou si peu, l'histoire de cet homme, ce presque inconnu, ce papa mystère