Arrival : the story of CanLit
Title:
Arrival : the story of CanLit
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
"In the mid-twentieth century, Canadian literature was transformed from a largely ignored trickle of books into an enormous cultural phenomenon that produced Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, and Mordecai Richler, and so many others. In Arrival, acclaimed writer and critic Nick Mount answers the question: What caused the CanLit Boom?".
Year Published:
2017
Physical Description:
373 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents:
Surfacing -- Beautiful losers -- Fifth business -- The national dream -- The diviners -- The double hook -- The Torontonians -- Understanding media -- Procedures for underground -- New wave Canada -- The boat who wouldn't float -- The new Romans -- Cocksure -- George, Vancouver -- Next episode -- In Hardy country -- Lives of girls and women -- Civil elegies.
ISBN:
9781770892217
Publisher:
[Toronto] : Anansi, 2017.
