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This Is My Country, What's Yours?: A Literary Atlas of Canada by Noah Richler [Richler, Noah] is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is This Is My Country, What's Yours?: A Literary Atlas of Canada about?
Winner of the 2007 B.C. Award for Canadian Non-fictionA Globe and Mail Best 100 Book (2006)National Post Best Books (2006)A bold cultural portrait of contemporary Canada through the work of its most celebrated novelists, short story writers, and storytellers.Stories are the surest way to know a place, and at a time when the fabric of the country seems daily more uncertain, Noah Richler looks to our authors for evidence of the true nature of Canada. He argues why fiction matters and seeks to discover — in the extra-ordinary diversity of communities these writers represent — what stories, if any, bind us as a nation.Over two years, Richler has criss-crossed the country and interviewed close to one hundred authors — a who’s who of Canadian literature, including Wayne Johnston, Michael Crummey, Alistair MacLeod, Gil Courtemanche, Jane Urquhart, Joseph Boyden, Miriam Toews, Yann Martel, Fred Stenson, Douglas Coupland, and Rohinton Mistry — about the places and ideas that are most meaningful to their work. The result is a journey through the reality of Canada and its imagination at a critical point in the country’s evolution. Within thematic chapters he exposes our “Myths of Disappointme
Who reads This Is My Country, What's Yours?: A Literary Atlas of Canada?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Noah Richler [Richler, Noah]
- Publisher
- McClelland & Stewart
- Published
- 2011
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Fiction