Best Seat in the House : Memoirs of a Lucky Man - 6 Angebote vergleichen

Lieferung aus: Kanada, Versandkosten nach: USA.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Pat Orr Fine Books.
Toronto: Collins, (1988).. 8vo., pp. 260, illustrated with 16 pages of b/w photos, black boards, gilt to spine, dust jacket. A near fine copy in like good dust jacket. Canadian columnist, editor and author's memoirs, includes passages on: Glenn Gould; Conrad Black; Marshall McLuhan; Peter C. Newman; Margaret Atwood; etc.. First Edition. Hardcover.

Lieferung aus: Kanada, Versandkosten nach: DEU.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Fully Booked.
Don Mills: Collins Publishers, 1988. BOOK: Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Light Shelf Rub to Boards; Spine Slightly Cocked; Edges Lightly Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Moderate Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. SUB-TITLE: Memoirs of a Lucky Man. JACKET DESIGN: Scott Richardson. CONTENTS: 1 Teentime 2 The Genius Who Lived Next Door 3 Newspaper days 4 My Life as a Hack 5 Nights at the Colonial 6 Snow and Town, Art and Eros 7 Beland and Nathan and Me 8 The Boys at Maclean's 9 The Age of McLuhan 10 Mythology, Politics and Atwood 11 Turning the Corner 12 Meeting Citizen Black; Acknowledgements; Index. SYNOPSIS: For three decades, Robert Fulford has watched the flowering of the arts in Canada from an ideal vantage point, the best seat in the house. He grew up next door to Glenn Gould, befriended Michael Snow when Fulford and Snow were both teenagers, and eventually worked alongside Pierre Berton, Peter Gzowski, Christina McCall, Nathan Cohen and Peter C. Newman. Written in the style that won nine National Magazine Awards, Fulford's frank and absorbing memoirs cover a period of startling change in Canadian life and chart a unique adventure in self-transformation: from sports writer to literary critic, from high-school dropout to Distinguished Visitor at the University of Toronto, from all-purpose hack to editor (for nineteen years) of the most admired magazine in Canada, Saturday Night. Along the way Fulford managed a jazz band, argued in public and private with Marshall McLuhan, hosted both a radio and TV show, organized a concert that featured Maureen Forrester, and published the work of Margaret Atwood (who directed him in his first--and last--stage performance, playing himself as rewritten by Atwood). When he resigned from Saturday Night in 1987 because he declined to work for the new owner, Conrad Black, the news made headlines across Canada and drew hundreds of tributes. "I was able," Fulford writes, "to read my obituaries without the inconvenience of dying, a pleasure denied those whose careers are uniformly successful." That resignation, and the sometimes farcical events surrounding it, form the conclusion to this perceptive account of a life lived at the centre of Canadian culture. Robert Fulford is now a weekly columnist for The Financial Times of Canada and co-host of Realities on TVOntario. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada and holds honorary degrees from McMaster and York Universities and the University of Western Ontario.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Very Good/Very Good. Illus. by Nigel Dickson (In background: "Switch" by Michael Snow). 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Black Cat Books.
Toronto: Collins, 1988. Black boards, gold lettering on spine, bright & clean; glossy illus. dustjacket, col. photo of Fulford, white lettering, white lettering on black spine, light scuffing, not chipped or edgeworn; clean & tight, no previous owner markings.. 1st. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, zzgl. Versandkosten, Verandgebiet: DOM.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, kbooks, NY, Niagara Falls, [RE:5].
First Edition. FIRST EDITION Very Good hardcover with dust jacket, clean, unmark, light wear to extremities otherwise a fine copy-ss All orders are shipped by kbooks every business day. Hardcover.

Lieferung aus: Vereinigte Staaten von Amerika, zzgl. Versandkosten, Verandgebiet: DOM.
Von Händler/Antiquariat, Motor City Books, MI, Brownstown, [RE:5].
Hardcover.

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Von Händler/Antiquariat, Free State Books, MD, Halethorpe, [RE:5].
Hardcover.