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Extraordinary Canadians: Lucy Maud Montgomery
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While her beloved fictional characters inhabited a world where love and community could overcome most tribulations, Lucy Maud Montgomery’s own life was marked by inescapable grief and loneliness. Raised virtually as an orphan by grandparents unable to give her much affection, Montgomery was nevertheless an optimistic and enthusiastic young woman, able to delight in her literary success and in the company of her wider family and friends. But after marrying a clergyman beset by a debilitating mental illness, she struggled to maintain appearances. Even as she sustained her prolific output of fiction and won adoring fans worldwide, depression slowly engulfed her. Jane Urquhart explores the fascinating contradictions embodied by this enduring artist in whose fiction the imagination lights a way through the darkness, but in whose life the creeping shadows would ultimately shut out everything but the work.
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| Weight | 0.17 kg |
|---|---|
| Dimensions | 1.27 × 13.21 × 19.82 cm |
| PubliCanadation City/Country | Canada |
| by | |
| Format | Paperback |
| Language | |
| Pages | 184 |
| Publisher | |
| Year Published | 2012-9-4 |
| Imprint | |
| ISBN 10 | 014305452X |
| About The Author | JANE URQUHART, one of Canada’s best loved writers, was born in the north (in Little Longlac, Ontario), and grew up in Northumberland County and Toronto. She is the author of eight internationally acclaimed novels, which have received Le prix du meilleur livre étranger (Best Foreign Book Award) in France; the Trillium Award; and the Governor General’s Award, and have been finalists or longlisted for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award; the Rogers Communications Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize; the Orange Prize; The Giller Prize; the Booker Prize; and the Commonwealth Writers’ Prize for Best Book, among others. |
| Review Quote | “A gem.” —London Free Press“With its brevity, [Urquhart’s] book is a rich tour de force of Montgomery’s life.” —The Globe and Mail“A beautifully crafted, if shockingly sad study of Lucy Maud Montgomery. . . . Urquhart . . . distils her famous subject to its essence. . . . Fascinating.” —Ottawa Citizen“A poignant biography.” —Calgary Herald“[The] choice of novelist Jane Urquhart . . . to pen a brief biography of Lucy Maud Montgomery was inspired. . . . The fit is perfect, and Urquhart’s wonderfully perceptive portrait of the richly talented Montgomery is without flaw. . . . A beautiful poetic biography, one which catches the essence of a remarkable personality.” —London Free Press“A richly multi-layered portrait. . . . [An] excellent biography.” —Quill & Quire |
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