Crazy Dave

Crazy Dave suffers a massive identity crisis as it is neither a memoir nor a native studies reference, though it purports to be both. Author Basil Johnston tells the story of David McLeod (Dave) and ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century

By Modris Eksteins

Modris Eksteins, a history professor at the University of Toronto, and author of the acclaimed and controversial Rites of Spring: The Great War and the Birth of the Modern Age, tells both his personal story ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ The Closer We Are to Dying

By Joe Fiorito

Joe Fiorito’s The Closer We Are to Dying is a very good book about people who are far from perfect. It covers the last 20 days in his father’s life, 20 days by the bedside ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Desire of Every Living Thing: The Search for Home

By Don Gillmor

Don Gillmor, author of four children’s books and winner of four National Magazine Awards, uses the stock feature of much biography – the secrecy/disclosure dynamic – as the start for exploring his ancestral past. The ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Jack: The Story of Jack McClelland, the Canadian Publisher

By James King

We’re not much for statuary in this country. Oh, we’ve raised prime ministers to plinths and the odd soldier, we’ve bronzed some explorers and even Gretzky. Maybe if there were a lady called Liberty in ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

The Water in Between

By Kevin Patterson

It is important to disabuse the reader of certain expectations at the outset: despite some of its trappings, The Water in Between is not the latest true-life nautical thriller, successor to Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Open Book: Little Thoughts from a Big Head

By Mike Bullard

Mike Bullard needs no formal introduction. The Toronto comedian’s late-night television talk show, Open Mike, has become a bona fide hit for CTV, and he’s appeared widely on magazine covers and in advertisements. In Open ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

★ Motion Sickness

By David Layton

As the decade draws to a close, some readers will be eager to bid adieu to that overindulged literary trend of the 1990s – the dysfunctional family memoir. But amid the shapeless, self-mythologizing volumes clogging ... Read More »

February 5, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

Simple Things: The Story of a Friendship

By Karen Lavut

Karen Lavut’s memoir of her friendship with the painter Christiane Pflug tells a tragic but all-too-familiar story. Pflug’s life in many ways resembled that of poet Gwendolyn MacEwen – she was an attractive and extremely ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

A Cruel Paradise

By Leanne Olson

A cruel paradise indeed. Doctors Without Borders nurse Leanne Olson conveys the weight of this oxymoron in her editorialized journal. Her life as a relief worker in wartorn nations shows the depths of cruelty and ... Read More »

February 3, 2004 | Filed under: Memoir & Biography

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Crazy Dave

Walking Since Daybreak: A Story of Eastern Europe, World War II, and the Heart of Our Century

★ The Closer We Are to Dying

The Desire of Every Living Thing: The Search for Home

★ Jack: The Story of Jack McClelland, the Canadian Publisher

The Water in Between

Open Book: Little Thoughts from a Big Head

★ Motion Sickness

Simple Things: The Story of a Friendship

A Cruel Paradise

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