The Best Canadian Essays 2017
- Publisher
- Tightrope Books
- Initial publish date
- Nov 2017
- Category
- Canadian, Essays
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781988040356
- Publish Date
- Nov 2017
- List Price
- $21.95
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Description
Featuring trusted Series editor Christopher Doda and acclaimed guest editor Marina Nemat, this ninth installment of Canada's annual volume of essays showcases diverse nonfiction writing from across the country. Culled from leading Canadian magazines and journals, The Best Canadian Essays 2017 contains award-winning and award-nominated nonfiction articles that are topical and engaging and have their finger on the pulse of our contemporary psyches.
About the authors
Christopher Doda is a poet and an award winning critic living in Toronto. His first book of poems, Among Ruins (2001), was released by Mansfield Press; he is an editor at Exile: The Literary Quarterly.
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Arrested at age sixteen in Ayatollah Khomeini’s Iran, Marina Nemat was imprisoned in Teheran’s notorious Evin prison for two years. She emigrated to Canada in 1991 and lives with her husband and two sons near Toronto.
Editorial Reviews
"Fascinating, provocative, sobering and painful… an abundance of artfully expressed ideas... Its essays offer an intimate form of education, and, better, help give what might seem like overwhelming complexity a reassuringly compassionate and relatable face."
