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Asian Heritage in Canada
Authors
Clarkson, Adrienne
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The Right Honourable
Adrienne Clarkson, is well known to Canadians
as Canada's 26th Governor General (1999-2005), and for her long career
in television broadcasting. Less well know is the fact that
Madame Clarkson authored two novels, a work of non-fiction,
and contributed to many newspapers and magazines.
Born in Hong Kong in 1939, Madame Clarkson and her family
came to Canada in 1942 as a refugees. She earned both an Honours
B.A and M.A. in English from the University of Toronto and
did some post-graduate work at the Sorbonne in France. Several
Canadian universities have acknowledged her contribution to
Canadian life and culture with honorary doctorates. She was
appointed an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1992, and upon
her appointment as Governor General, she became Chancellor
and Principal Companion of the Order of Canada. |
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Fiction
Hunger Trace
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1970.
New York: W. Morrow, 1970.
Republished: New York: Pyramid Books, 1971, under the title:
Love Affair.
Publisher's Synopsis (McClelland and Stewart)
[The] story of Regina, a beautiful, intelligent and totally
feminine woman, who never concerned herself with propriety
and was not about to start. Her love for Tiercel, a politically
prominent man, not only puts a brilliant career in jeopardy,
but threatens many innocent people.
Here is the truth about a love affair -- sensitively and carefully
investigated. And the truth about woman's love -- poignant,
passionate, yet cruel in its urgency. |
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Fiction
A Lover More Condoling
Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1968.
Publisher's Synopsis
The problem that Sara Rainer has refused to face all her life is that other people maintain she has a problem. Her husband died many years ago during the Normandy invasion, and her friends reason it's high time she either married again or, now that she's holidaying in France, took a lover. ...
Adrienne Clarkson has written a wry, amusing novel about young spinsterhood. A Love More Condoling will hold special interest for women readers, for it is full of closely observed domestic details and the feelings they evoke. It is an exceptionally challenging first novel in the rich manner of Iris Murdoch and Margaret Drabble. |
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Non-fiction (History)
The Circle Widens
Toronto: Penguin Canada
Forthcoming Fall 2007 |
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Non-fiction (Memoir)
Heart Matters: A Memoir
Toronto: Viking Canada, 2006.
9th floor FC636 .C56 A3 2006
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Non-fiction
True to You in My Fashion: A Woman Talks to Men About Marriage
Toronto: New Press, 1971.
7th floor HQ734
.C59 |
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