The Vintage Book of Canadian Memoirs

Editor George Fetherling, himself the author of an acclaimed memoir, Travels by Night: A Memoir of the Sixties, has selected twenty-four literary memoirs by well-known Canadian writers for this unique and timely anthology. Michael Ondaatje's Running in the Family, Margaret Atwood's Remembering Marian Engel, Timothy Findley's From Stage to Page, and Mordercai Richler's A Sense of the Ridiculous are just a few of the fascinating selections. George Fetherling's lively and thoughtful introduction sheds light on the characteristics that make the memoir genre so unique, a genre for which Canadians seem to have a particular passion. The anthology is divided into four thematically grouped sections, each with its own preface written by the editor — At Home and Abroad; Getting Started; Uprootedness and Family; and Tragedies, Choices and Losses. There is also a comprehensive bibliography.