Stories about storytellers, publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and others, by Douglas Gibson ; with illustrations by Anthony Jenkins
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Stories about storytellers, publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and others, by Douglas Gibson ; with illustrations by Anthony Jenkins
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references
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Stories about storytellers
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by Douglas Gibson ; with illustrations by Anthony Jenkins
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publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and others
Summary
An autobiography that reviews the author's accomplishments working and playing alongside some of Canada's greatest writers. Relates the projects he brainstormed for writer Barry Broadfoot, how he convinced eventual Nobel Prize contender Alice Munro to keep writing short stories, his early morning phone call from a former Prime Minister, and his recollection of yanking a manuscript right out of Alistair MacLeod's own reluctant hands, which ultimately garnered MacLeod one of the world's most prestigious prizes for fiction. Provides an inside view of Canadian publishing that is rarely revealed. Some strong language. 2011
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specialized
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