Canadian Folk: Portraits of Remarkable Lives - Softcover

Unwin, Peter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1459710274 ISBN 13: 9781459710276

Publisher: Dundurn Press, 2013

Synopsis

An amusing collection of lives and stories from the eccentric side of Canada’s history.

A joyous romp through the back pages of Canadian quirkiness, Canadian Folk provides a fresh look at the saints, sinners, oddballs, and outright nutbars who have populated the Canadian landscape.

They were perpetually northbound or south; they were inveterate walkers, or world class runners, millionaires in ill-advised Citroen half-tracks. The restless characters who spanned those miles and who fill the pages of this book were fuelled by the ambitions, the doubts, and the certainties of their times, a certainty that now seems unfathomable to us and frequently maddening. From doomed explorers to celebrated poets of cheese, this collection provides a fascinating look at the eminent and no-so-eminent characters who came before us and left their colourful mark on Canada’s history.

About this title

About the Author:

Peter Unwin grew up in southern Ontario and has travelled extensively in the north. His first collection of short stories, The Rock Farmers, was nominated for a Stephen Leacock Award, and his essays have been singled out for both regional and national attention. His story "The World In the Evening," was shortlisted for the 2012 Canadian National Magazine Award For Fiction. He lives in Toronto.

Review:

From its duelling novellists to its stands of homicidal pine trees, Canadian Folk is Canada as it has never been written - but should have been. Unwin's unerring eye for absurdity gives positive proof that you have to be crazy to live here. (Andrew J. Borkowski author of Copernicus Avenue)

About this edition

• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1459710274
• ISBN 13: 9781459710276
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232