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House of Anansi Press Inc., Toronto, Published date: 2006. Softcover; xviii, 314 pp, plus 8 pp of plates; 24 cm. Illustrated with black and white and color illustrations.
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In very good condition. Pictorial paper covers with very mild shelf wear only; binding sound. Interior pages clean and unmarked. From back cover: Emily Carr: A Biography is a remarkable portrait of one of Canadas most celebrated and fascinating artists, a critically renowned painter whose talents would only fully emerge in her late 50s, and a popular and award-winning writer first published at age 70. Emily Carrs life was filled with tension, between the conventions of society and her own originality, between her relationships with others and her often lonely struggle to overcome obstacles, between happiness and despair. Acclaimed writer and historian Maria Tippett has captured the essence of this complex life, weaving a narrative that is at once sympathetic and penetrating. Her masterful examination, which won the Governor Generals Literary Award for Nonfiction and the Sir John A. Macdonald Prize for Canadian History, has been hailed as a classic. Contents include: Colour Plates; Abbreviations; Preface to the 1994 Edition; Preface; Acknowledgements; Bibliographical Note; Childhood 1871-1891; San Francisco and Ucluelet 1891-1899; England 1899-1904; Vancouver 1904-1910; France 1910-1911; Vancouver and the North 1911-1913; Chrysalis 1913-1927; Discovery and Its Effects 1927-1929; Spirit and the Land 1929-1933; New Friends at Home 1930-1934; Fruition 1934-1937; Writing and Ira 1937-1942; Tired very tired 1942-1945; Epilogue; Notes; Index.