Exploded View
Observations of Reading, Writing and Life
- Publisher
- Douglas & McIntyre
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2011
- Category
- Essays
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781553656968
- Publish Date
- Jun 2011
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
"Exploded View contains various stairways into the past, sightings of a childhood heart...gracefully caught and intricately mapped..." -- Michael Ondaatje
The exploded view -- a diagram that shows how each component of an object relates to the whole -- is usually thought of in connection with carburetors or washing machines. In these pages, author Jean McKay applies the concept to the world at large, exploding everything from macaroons to metaphors. Part fiction, part essay and part reminiscence, this is a wry, tender and delightfully quirky chronicle of one writer's time on the planet.
This is a new release of the book published in March 2001.
About the author
Jean McKay spent her childhood in Vancouver, Calgary and Toronto. She now lives in London, Ontario, where she teaches writing and studies the violin. She is the author of Gone to Grass and The Dragonfly Fling, both of which were adapted for the stage, and the chapbook The Page-turner's Sister.