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Chapters: Hayden Christensen, Alanis Morissette, Timothy Findley, Joshua Jackson, Neve Campbell, Donald Sutherland, Walter Huston, Walter Pidgeon, Raymond Massey, Alexander Knox, Bret Hart, Christopher Plummer, Martin Short, Richard Pochinko, Colleen Dewhurst, Kim Cattrall, Paul Gross, Ruta Lee, Charles Dennis, Barry Morse, Colin Fox, Amanda Tapping, Victor Garber, Geraint Wyn Davies, Hume Cronyn, Marie Dressler, Al Waxman, Debbie Rochon, Colm Feore, Eric Peterson, Gary Files, Tom Cavanagh, Seán Cullen, Gordon Pinsent, Beatrice Lillie, Ann Rutherford, Susan Glover, Geneviève Bujold, Donovan King, Karyn Dwyer, Graham Abbey, Julia Arthur, Nick Mancuso, Kate Nelligan, Johnny Washbrook, Gerald Macintosh Johnston, John Ireland, Shirley Douglas, Nicholas Campbell, Alexis Smith, John Mantley, Cara Duff-Maccormick, Joe Flaherty, Robert Tinkler, Amanda Plummer, Matt Frewer, Joanna Gleason, Sheila Mccarthy, Lauren Collins, Amy Sky, Mike Dopud, Trevor White, William Hutt, Ned Sparks, Kathy Greenwood, Kristie Marsden, Kim Schraner, Mary Walsh, May Irwin, Madeleine Sherwood, Thea Gill, Kim Coates, Pauline Garon, Jill Belland, David Nykl, Andrew Tite, Claire Rankin, Michael Therriault, Douglas Campbell, Jack Paterson, Janet Wright, Kerry Shale, Richard Berry Harrison, Duncan Regehr, John Neville, Alison Pill, David Alvarez, Yank Azman, Anik Matern, Daniel Macivor, Christopher Britton, Carmen Silvera, Darren O'donnell, Toby Robins, Walter Learning, Caitlynne Medrek, Lou Jacobi, Paul Soles, Lucile Watson, Ramin Karimloo, Victor Jory, Margaret Anglin, Philip Akin, Charly Chiarelli, Sydney Sturgess, Ernie Coombs, Cyril Biddulph, Yanna Mcintosh, Lothaire Bluteau, Goldie Semple, Jonathan Monro, Harry Hayden, Michelle Giroux, Denis Bernard, Jacques Tourangeau, Willard Mack, Linda Thorson, Charles Officer, Marjorie White, Percy Rodriguez, Stephanie Morgenstern, Antony Holland, Nancy Dolman, Matt Craven, Roberta Maxwell, Lally Cadeau, Nobu Mccarth...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=303089 ... Read more

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Chapters: Margaret Atwood, Roberta Bondar, Oscar Peterson, Jane Jacobs, Pierre Berton, Gordon Lightfoot, Timothy Findley, Marilyn Bell, Barbara Ann Scott, Galen Weston, Bob Rae, Ursula Franklin, List of Members of the Order of Ontario, David Peterson, W. Garfield Weston, John Weinzweig, Julian Fantino, Pinball Clemons, Mike Weir, David Onley, Ed Mirvish, Roy Mcmurtry, James Bartleman, Alex Baumann, Al Waxman, Oskar Morawetz, Leonard Birchall, Mark J. Poznansky, Paul Godfrey, Peter Silverman, June Callwood, Sheela Basrur, Frank Miller, Boris Brott, Walter Gretzky, Moses Znaimer, Bette Stephenson, Gunther Plaut, Max Keeping, Don Harron, James Till, Lincoln Alexander, Anthony Pawson, Lewis Mackenzie, Flora Macdonald, Robert Prichard, Tsui Lap-Chee, Al Purdy, David Mirvish, John Bassett, Knowlton Nash, Richard Rohmer, William Hutt, Haroon Siddiqui, Ernest Mcculloch, Ellen Fairclough, Lawrence Wnuk, James Fraser Mustard, J. M. S. Careless, Isabel Mclaughlin, Herb Carnegie, Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook, Benson Lau, Mike Lazaridis, Cleeve Horne, Lorna Marsden, Tak Wah Mak, Leslie Dan, John Black Aird, Walter Pitman, Murray G. Ross, Richard Alway, Janice Stein, Bluma Appel, Harry Arthurs, Charles Dubin, Leonard Braithwaite, Tommy Hunter, Thomas Symons, Lois Miriam Wilson, Jack Diamond, William Thorsell, Michael Baker, Ken Danby, Clifford Chadderton, Dennis Flynn, John Robert Evans, James Milton Ham, Jack Chiang, Jean-Robert Gauthier, Lorraine Monk, David Blackwood, Shirley Thomson, Maureen Kempston Darkes, David Maclennan, Vicki Keith, Tom Patterson, Ted Szilva, Murray Koffler, John Basmajian, Patrick Lesage, Raymond Moriyama, Austin Clarke, J. Conrad Lavigne, George Cohon, Gwen Boniface, Hal Jackman, Marlene Streit, Peter Herrndorf, Richard Bradshaw, Norman Campbell, Johnny Lombardi, Burton Kramer, Gordie Tapp, Daniel G. Hill, Doris Mccarthy, Irving Gerstein, Joseph J. Barnicke, Mark Starowicz, Tony Dean, George Brady, Paul Walfish,...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=251849 ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: Books by Timothy Findley, Novels by Timothy Findley, Plays by Timothy Findley, Short Story Collections by Timothy Findley, the Wars, Not Wanted on the Voyage, Spadework, the Last of the Crazy People, Elizabeth Rex, Pilgrim, Headhunter, Dinner Along the Amazon, Famous Last Words, the Piano Man's Daughter, Stones, From Stone Orchard, Journeyman: Travels of a Writer. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Wars is a 1977 novel by Timothy Findley telling the story of a young Canadian officer in World War I. First published by Clarke Irwin, it won the Governor General's Award for fiction in 1977. The novel follows the experiences of Robert Ross, an officer in the Canadian army who is 18 when World War I breaks out. It is narrated by a historian who is researching and understanding Robert Ross' life, in particular a controversial wartime incident he instigated. The story is told through the memories of the few living people who knew him, and the historian's reconstructions based on archive materials. It portrays the life of an Edwardian higher class family in Canada's 21st century, and warfare on the Western Front. Robert Ross, the protagonist, was inspired by T. E. Lawrence and the author's uncle, Thomas Irving Findley, to whom the novel is dedicated. Findley named the character after Canadian literary figure Robbie Ross. Robert Ross' sister, Rowena, was inspired by Mary Macdonald, daughter of Sir John A. Macdonald. The Wars utilizes first-, second-, and third-person narrative, which is very rare in literature. The novel is also an example of historiographic metafiction. The beginning of the first chapter is actually an allusion to part 5. Robert Ross has enlisted in the army. His sister, Rowena, has recently died from a fa...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2528252 ... Read more

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Chapters: Margaret Atwood, Roch Carrier, Timothy Findley, Carol Shields, Jane Urquhart, Morley Callaghan, Jack Hodgins, Alistair Macleod, W. O. Mitchell, Alice Munro, Margaret Laurence, Jane Eaton Hamilton, Isabel Huggan, W. P. Kinsella, Mavis Gallant, Duncan Campbell Scott, M. Nourbese Philip, Peter Watts, Hugh Hood, Maria Campbell, Ethel Wilson, Susanna Moodie, Barbara Gowdy, Pierre Sévigny, Suzanne Jacob, Lawrence Ytzhak Braithwaite, Angie Abdou, Charles G.d. Roberts, Sui Sin Far, J. Timothy Hunt, Stephen Henighan, Colin Mcdougall, Sun Bo, Matt Cohen, R.j. Harlick, Raymond Fraser, Joseph Boyden, Russell Smith, David Bezmozgis, Brenda Chapman, Mary Jane Maffini, Rebecca Hendry, Michael Crummey, Evelyn Eaton, Crad Kilodney, Sasenarine Persaud, Theodore Odrach, Joan Clark, Moe Berg, Hugh Garner, Ven Begamudré, Rebecca Rosenblum, Ibi Kaslik, Guy Vanderhaeghe, Pan Bouyoucas, Margaret Gibson, Barbara Murray, Sky Lee, Karen X. Tulchinsky, C.b. Forrest, Rick Rofihe, Austin Clarke, Michael Redhill, Betty Lambert, Sheree-Lee Olson, Nellie Mcclung, Sheila Heti, H. Bedford-Jones, Olive Senior, Anne Fleming, Kevin Patterson, Lynn Coady, Derek Mccormack, Bronwen Wallace, Cathleen With, Gail Anderson-Dargatz, Vincent Lam, Beverley Daurio, Anne Cameron, Nicolas Dickner, David Watmough, Ted Russell, Donald Alarie, Bill Gaston, Guillermo Verdecchia, Peter Mcgehee, Cynthia Flood, Madeline Sonik, Lance Blomgren, Audrey Thomas, Diane Schoemperlen, Heather O'neill, Steven Hayward, Chris Hutchinson, Norman Levine, Isabella Valancy Crawford, Raymond Knister, Nadine Mcinnis, Sandra Birdsell, Andy Quan, Zsuzsi Gartner, Elyse Gasco, Christopher Meades, Rick Hillis, Linda Svendsen, Katherine Govier, Russell Wangersky, Sandra Sabatini, List of Canadian Short Story Writers, Xiaowen Zeng, Jaspreet Singh, Jon Papernick, John Patrick Gillese, Gayla Reid, Marina Endicott, George Elliott, Nancy Lee, Makeda Silvera, Emily Schultz, Peter Behrens, Holley Rubin...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=60280 ... Read more

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Les achats comprennent une adhésion à l'essai gratuite au club de livres de l'éditeur, dans lequel vous pouvez choisir parmi plus d'un million d'ouvrages, sans frais. Le livre consiste d'articles Wikipedia sur : Timothy Findley, Glenn Gould, Dan Aykroyd, Wayne Gretzky, Mario Lemieux, Mack Sennett, Cirque Du Soleil, Shania Twain, Scotty Bowman, Alegría, Céline Dion, Rush, Maurice Richard, Mary Pickford, Alanis Morissette, Gordie Howe, Jacques Villeneuve, Luc Plamondon, Jim Carrey, Jean Béliveau, William Shatner, Robert Lepage, Neil Young, Ferguson Jenkins, Christopher Plummer, Joni Mitchell, Michael J. Fox, Donald Sutherland, Leslie Nielsen, Kurt Browning, Denys Arcand, Bobby Orr, Kiefer Sutherland, Fay Wray, Liste Des Étoiles de L'allée Des Célébrités Canadiennes, Bryan Adams, David Cronenberg, Paul Anka, Ginette Reno, Norman Jewison, Margaret Atwood, Hume Cronyn, Jean-Paul Riopelle, Diana Krall, Saltimbanco, Barbara Ann Scott, Quidam, John Candy, Martin Short, Ivan Reitman, Mike Myers, Graham Greene, Daniel Lanois, Arthur Hiller, the Guess Who, Wayne et Shuster, Nancy Greene, Linda Evangelista, Monty Hall, Gordon Lightfoot, Varekai, Marie Brassard, Crystel Geoffré, Royal Canadian Air Farce, the Tragically Hip, Anne Murray, Delirium, Daniel Wnukowski, Pierre Berton, Kenojuak Ashevak. Non illustré. Mises à jour gratuites en ligne. Extrait : Wayne Douglas Gretzky, O.C. est un joueur professionnel canadien de hockey sur glace, né le 26 janvier 1961 à Brantford ville de l'Ontario au Canada. Il possède également la nationalité américaine. Il a joué la quasi totalité de sa carrière professionnelle dans la Ligue nationale de hockey. Il est généralement considéré comme le meilleur joueur de l'histoire du hockey sur glace et c'est le seul joueur dont le numéro (99) a été retiré pour l'ensemble des équipes de la Ligue nationale de hockey : aucun autre joueur ne peut porter de maillot avec le numéro 99 dans le dos. Il détient ainsi la maj...http://booksllc.net/?l=fr ... Read more

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This is nonfiction commentary. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Chapters: The Wars, Not Wanted on the Voyage, Spadework, the Last of the Crazy People, Pilgrim, Headhunter, Famous Last Words, the Piano Man's Daughter. Source: Wikipedia. Free updates online. Not illustrated. Excerpt: The Wars is a 1977 novel by Timothy Findley telling the story of a young Canadian officer in World War I. First published by Clarke Irwin, it won the Governor General's Award for fiction in 1977. The novel follows the experiences of Robert Ross, an officer in the Canadian army who is 21 when World War I breaks out. It is narrated by a historian who is researching and understanding Robert Ross' life, in particular a controversial wartime incident he instigated. The story is told through the memories of the few living people who knew him, and the historian's reconstructions based on archive materials. It portrays the life of an Edwardian higher class family in Canada's 21st century, and warfare on the Western Front. Robert Ross, the protagonist, was inspired by T. E. Lawrence and the author's uncle, Thomas Irving Findley, to whom the novel is dedicated. Findley named the character after Canadian literary figure Robbie Ross. Robert Ross' sister, Rowena, was inspired by Mary Macdonald, daughter of Sir John A. Macdonald. The Wars utilizes first-, second-, and third-person narrative, which is very rare in literature. The novel is also an example of historiographic metafiction. The beginning of the first chapter is actually an allusion to part 5. Robert Ross has enlisted in the army. His sister, Rowena, has recently died from a fall. Robert feels guilty because he was unable to save her, and joins the army to distance himself from the pain. His "girlfriend", meanwhile, leaves him because he will not beat up a man who he has never seen. He meets Eugen...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=2528252 ... Read more

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Simply lovely. Perfectly simple.
I know there are those who believe that even the notion of a novella is something unpalatable, never mind what's contained between its covers. I suppose I'm a little more egalitarian...which is surprising, seeing as I'm such a harsh critic...and a snob. However, 'You Went Away' *is* a novella. It's not a novel. It's not focused on telling a fully-formed story, but rather a storella. Which, as we all know, is a broad hint of a story, its quality defined as much by what's left out as by what's left in. (What's fascinating to me is that everything about the tale has been 'novella-ized'. Not just its breadth -that is, the narrative- but also the pithy representation of characters, their dialogue...the entire kit and kaboodle. And for this, I give Findley additional marks, for having been true to his intent. If this had been a slim tome but inconsistently dressed, if the passages were dense for example, or the depth into which he went in portraying characters was substantive, 'You Went Away' simply wouldn't ring true. But it does, because everything about the novel cleaves to the concept that 'novella' suggests.)

'You Went Away' is an austere, yet hardly cold affair. It's restrained without seeming bound, it's spare without seeming spartan. Its powerful punch comes from remaining true to the time, to the period, to the circumstances...with every word, every sentence, every paragraph serving the end result, that of novella and not 'sweeping saga'. (Lord knows, it could have been. There's so much there. In fact, I couldn't help but think "I wonder what Ann-Marie MacDonald would have done with this, if she'd been left it to finish upon Findley's death.') Yes, it does leave so very much unanswered. Yes, there are threads left dangling. But it's also an awfully satisfying reading experience, a slim slice of...well, meat and potato pie...that doesn't fill you up, but certainly reminds you of how good cooking (as writing) can be.

I was also reminded of how few writers there are who actually have something to say. Yes, constructing a tale and making sure all the necessary bits are there is the foundation of the writer's craft. But above this accomplishment is the hallmark of a real writer, one who *moves* the reader by way of conviction, of presence, as if they've draped their arm around your shoulder as you walk and said 'I've got a story to tell you. It's a good one, I know you're going to like it.' So few novels have this, most are a craftsperson's attempts at an artistic endeavour.

I suppose I cannot review this book without injecting a piece of personal history: back in '97, I was enrolled in the Humber School For Writers. For my instructor/mentor, I had a choice between Findley and another acclaimed Canadian writer...and chose this other chap. I wonder now, some dozen years later, just how different a writer I would be now had I had the opportunity to work under Findley. Because even reading it now, I learned much about the power a writer exerts...and that this comes not from any sort of majesty of word choice, but in the very act of telling a story in exactly the way it was meant to be told.

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i love this book, it has been one of my favorties....i have never read anything like this before...it's hard at times to believe the emotion that was put intothe publications of this book...i look for too reading more of Timothy's work! =) EMAIL ME FOR A GOOD TIME!!!!! HAHAHA THANKS! =P ... Read more

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Winner of Canada's highest literary award and known for ambitious and weighty novels. Timothy Findley spins in this book an intimate and accessible narrative of patrician murder and mendacity among summering guests at an old Maine coast hotel. In this novel the hotel that once was a long-time source of great aristocratic comfort and culture becomes a location of sinister motivations and murder. ... Read more