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Biography & Autobiography General

Great Canadian Lives

A Cultural History of Modern Canada Through the Art of the Obit

by (author) Sandra Martin

Publisher
House of Anansi Press Inc
Initial publish date
Jun 2014
Category
General, Cultural Heritage
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781770894488
    Publish Date
    Jun 2014
    List Price
    $19.95
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9781770899063
    Publish Date
    Jun 2014
    List Price
    $16.95

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Description

Award-winning Globe and Mail journalist Sandra Martin captures the life and times of 50 extraordinary Canadians, whose achievements, follies, and dreams have shaped the country we call home.

Martin’s witty essays on the cult and craft of obituary writing, from the ancient Greeks to a wired up 24/7 world, explode the myths and celebrate the art of our oldest biographical form.

Great Canadian Lives tells the political, social, and cultural history of modern Canada from WW1 to the Charter, from Pierre Trudeau to Jack Layton — one fascinating life at a time.

About the author

Sandra Martin is the obituary columnist at the Globe and Mail. She has won the Atkinson and Canadian Journalism Fellowships and multiple National Magazine Awards. She is the editor of the critically acclaimed collection The First Man in My Life: Daughters Write about Their Fathers, and was also the co-editor of the annual Oberon Best Short Stories and Coming Attractions anthologies, and is the co-author of three books, including Rupert Brooke in Canada and Card Tricks: Bankers, Boomers, and the Explosion of Plastic Credit, which was shortlisted for the Canadian Business Book Award. A past president of PEN Canada, she lives in Toronto with her husband and her cat, Alice.

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