Author: RICHLER, MORDECAI
Title: Home Sweet Home My Canadian Album
Description: Belgium: Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1984. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771074883. Tan Hardcovers, black cloth spine covering. In Very Good+ condition, tightly bound, bright, unmarked pages. Light tanning to the spine ends. The DJ is Very Good, a small tear to the back cover top edges, light staining to the covers, edge wear. "Canadians of my generation were conditioned to believe that the world happened elsewhere.' So at the tender age of nineteen Mordecai Richler left Canada to live and work in Europe. He writes here of the country which he once again calls Home: the country that indelibly shaped his life and honed his comic gifts. He takes us from Toronto bars to the Yellowknife Golf Club (devoid of grass) just below the Arctic Circle, from Winnipeg, capital of Manitoba ('On entering the legislature, one is immediately confronted by two enormous buffalo') and back to that fateful day when the Russians invaded and captured Canada's own national sport - hockey. "; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 291 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: 0771074883 Canada > History Authors Autobiogaphy Essays Canada Autobiography & Memoirs Culture History Authors
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Title: Home Sweet Home My Canadian Album
Description: Belgium: Toronto, ON, Canada: McClelland & Stewart, 1984. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771074883. Tan Hardcovers, black cloth spine covering. In Very Good+ condition, tightly bound, bright, unmarked pages. Light tanning to the spine ends. The DJ is Very Good, a small tear to the back cover top edges, light staining to the covers, edge wear. "Canadians of my generation were conditioned to believe that the world happened elsewhere.' So at the tender age of nineteen Mordecai Richler left Canada to live and work in Europe. He writes here of the country which he once again calls Home: the country that indelibly shaped his life and honed his comic gifts. He takes us from Toronto bars to the Yellowknife Golf Club (devoid of grass) just below the Arctic Circle, from Winnipeg, capital of Manitoba ('On entering the legislature, one is immediately confronted by two enormous buffalo') and back to that fateful day when the Russians invaded and captured Canada's own national sport - hockey. "; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 291 pages. Very Good+ in Very Good dust jacket .
Keywords: 0771074883 Canada > History Authors Autobiogaphy Essays Canada Autobiography & Memoirs Culture History Authors
Price: US$ 32.95 Seller: Bytown Bookery
- Book number: 26998
- Book number: 26998
See more books from our catalog: Authors, Autobiography, Canada, History