Waste Heritage

Informationen zum Autor Irene Baird is one of Canada's most original and underappreciated writers. Born in England in 1919, she spent much of her life in British Columbia and Ontario, and travelled widely in Canada's north. She is the author of four novels: John (1937), Waste Heritage (1939), He Rides the Sky (1941) and Climate of Power (1971). She also worked for the National Film Board, was a journalist, and became the first woman to head a federal information service. She died in 1981. Colin Hill teaches Canadian literature at the University of Toronto. Through his bibliographic and archival research he has recovered significant lost works of Canadian fiction and shed new light on the aesthetics of Canada's prose modernists and realists. Klappentext A new critical edition of the acknowledged best Canadian novel of the 1930s, often called Canada's "Grapes of Wrath" and the most important novel of its time.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Irene Baird, Irene/ Hill Baird, Irene Baird
• Collaboration: Colin Hill (Editeur)
• Edition: University of Toronto Press
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 04.11.2007
• EAN: 9780776606491
• ISBN: 978-0-7766-0649-1
• Pages: 291
• Dimensions: 133 mm x 197 mm x 25 mm
• Thèmes: Canadian Literature; Canadian Literature Collection; Canadian Literature
• Catégorie: Littérature > Littérature (récits)