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-- Storytellers :c2011., ECW Press Edition: eBook ed. Summary Note: Spotlighting an extraordinary career, this autobiography reviews the authorœs accomplishments workingand playingalongside some of Canadaœs greatest writers. These humorous chronicles relate the projects he brainstormed for writer Barry Broadfoot, how he convinced eventual Nobel Prize contender Alice Munro to keep writing short stories, his early morning phone call from a former Prime Minister, and his recollection of yanking a manuscript right out of Alistair MacLeodœs own reluctant handswhich ultimately garnered MacLeod one of the worldœs most prestigious prizes for fiction. Insightful and entertaining, this collection of tales provides an inside view of Canadian politics and publishing that is rarely revealed, going behind the scenes and between the covers to divulge a treasure trove of literary adventures.
![Stories about storytellers [eBook] : publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and others](/Library/images/~imageCT75975.JPG "Stories about storytellers [eBook] : publishing Alice Munro, Robertson Davies, Alistair MacLeod, Pierre Trudeau, and others")
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-- Storytellers :c2011., ECW Press Call No: 070.92 G449s Availability:1 of 1 At Your Library Summary Note: Spotlighting an extraordinary career, this autobiography reviews the authorœs accomplishments workingand playingalongside some of Canadaœs greatest writers. These humorous chronicles relate the projects he brainstormed for writer Barry Broadfoot, how he convinced eventual Nobel Prize contender Alice Munro to keep writing short stories, his early morning phone call from a former Prime Minister, and his recollection of yanking a manuscript right out of Alistair MacLeodœs own reluctant handswhich ultimately garnered MacLeod one of the worldœs most prestigious prizes for fiction. Insightful and entertaining, this collection of tales provides an inside view of Canadian politics and publishing that is rarely revealed, going behind the scenes and between the covers to divulge a treasure trove of literary adventures.
