Story of a Nation: Defining Moments in our History
Language: English
Published by Anchor Canada, 2002
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Eisbar Books, Hebron, NS, CanadaEisbar Books
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Used Paperback. Condition: Near Fine. Canadian First Edition. An ex-library copy with very minor wear. otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; This book is illustrated with black and white photographs; twelve fictional stories by Canadian authors that help to illuminate Canadian history. Ships from Canada at the cost of postage.
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- Title
- Story of a Nation: Defining Moments in our History
- Author
- Rudyard Griffiths [preface] Christopher Moore [introduction]
- Publisher
- Anchor Canada
- Publication year
- 2002
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0385658516
- ISBN 13
- 9780385658515
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Canadian Interest, First Edition, Non-Fiction
Drawing on their skills as master storytellers, the contributors to this collection offer wonderfully imaginative accounts of what it's like to make history. Margaret Atwood casts her eye back to 1759 and brilliantly captures the journal entries of a frightened French woman, trapped in Québec City as the English forces attack. In "The First of July," David Macfarlane's youthful narrator loses himself in the papers of an elderly neighbour, and through the records of her past, experiences the heartbreaking, stunting loss of war. In Thomas King's hilarious story, "Where the Borg Are," a young boy named Milton Friendlybear offers a Star Trekkian reinterpretation of the Indian Act, linking its significance to the fate of the universe. And revisiting an occasion of huge national pride, Michelle Berry tells the story of a four-year-old girl caught up in the excitement of the 1972 Summit Series, hopeful that the passion of hockey will hold her crumbling family together.
Each of these magical stories is further brought to life by an accompanying visual narrative. Vividly illustrating the joy, sorrow, anger and passion of more than two centuries of our history, here are fifty unforgettable images: the Belgian Queen, a seductive reminder that the Klondike of Roch Carrier's story was anything but a purely masculine domain; Kurt Meyer, the SS officer who represented evil in the childhood of John Ralston Saul and of many other children whose fathers landed on Juno beach in June 1944; and Viola Desmond at the Hi-Hat Club, whose glamour and elegance contrasted starkly with the small-minded racism so powerfully chronicled by Dionne Brand.
With a preface by Rudyard Griffiths, executive director of The Dominion Institute, and introduced by distinguished historian Christopher Moore, Story of a Nation is a moving celebration of Canada's extraordinary history and our exceptional writers.
"Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Margaret Atwood
Michelle Berry
Dionne Brand
Roch Carrier
Timothy Findley
Thomas King
David Macfarlane
Antonine Maillet
Alberto Manguel
Hal Niedzviecki
John Ralston Saul
Michael Turner
Preface by Rudyard Griffiths, The Dominion Institute
Introduction by Christopher Moore
From the Hardcover edition.
"About the title" may belong to another edition of this title.
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