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The highly anticipated follow-up to the much-loved, bestselling memoir Too Close To The Falls. Catherine Gildiner recounts her remarkable coming-of-age in the 1960’s with the same wit, candour and exhilarating storytelling that has made the first book a modern classic ($32.95).
Philosopher and critic Mark Kingwell regards Gould as a philosopher of music whose ideas about music governed his life. But those ideas were contradictory, mischievous, and deliberately provocative. Instead of a single narrative line to explain the musician, Kingwell adopts a kaleidoscopic approach. Just as Gould played twenty-one "takes" to record the opening aria in the famed 1955 Goldberg Variations, Kingwell offers twenty-one "takes" on Gould's life. Each version offers a different interpretation of the man, but in each, Kingwell is sensitive to the complex harmonies and dissonances that sounded throughout the life of the great Gould($26.00).
A journalist, war reporter, and television host, Lévesque channelled his communication skills into a political career that encompassed the most tumultuous periods in Canadian history. As founder of the Parti Québecois, he held a close referendum in 1980 that proved wrenching for Canadian unity and permanently altered the country's political landscape. Acclaimed novelist and translator Daniel Poliquin offers a unique portrait of Lévesque the man and politician, at once affectionate, critical, and incisive ($26.00).
Acclaimed novelist Jane Urquhart has written several novels centring on the role of the artist. Here, she explores the life of a woman whose successful literary career broke the boundaries set for women of her time, but who could not escape the societal strictures of Victorian Canada or her own demons ($26.00).
A cornucopia of comment from Canada’s most opinionated man – a man seen, read, and
listened to by millions of Canadians each week. You will be informed, infuriated perhaps,
but always fascinated ($32.95).
Walls’ first book The Glass Castle, is one of the bestselling memoirs of all time. Now, she brings us the story of her grandmother. “Walls has joined the company of writers such as Mary Karr and Frank McCourt who have been able to transform their sad memories into fine art.” – People. ($32.99)
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