Author: Max Braithwaite
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 1551996499
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 233
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Max Braithwaite has the unique capacity to be both tender and caustic – both nostalgic and uncompromisingly honest. He is also one of Canada’s few original humorists. All these qualities are present in his latest bittersweet recollections of life on the Prairies during the early Thirties. It was a time of depression and drought; but for Max, a young schoolteacher, it was also a time for courtship and marriage, for those hilarious episodes in Wannego, Saskatchewan, which did much to belie the grimness of the era. There was Max’s disastrous umpiring of a Ladies’ Softball game; his writing and directing of a play that generated more drama off-stage than on; the awful problem of the wasps at the outhouse, and much, much, more. The Night We Stole the Mountie’s Car follows Never Sleep Three in a Bed and Why Shoot the Teacher? and completes the story of Max’s early years. It is also Braithwaite at his vintage best – lusty, thought-provoking, and consistently amusing.
Author: John Robert Colombo
Publisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 0888820739
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 319
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Canadian Literary Landmarks
Author: Max Braithwaite
Publisher: CNIB, [197-]
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
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Publisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press
ISBN:
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 304
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Provides author biographies, publication data and plot summaries for some 500 fictional works featuring the Mounties, and plot summaries, casts, and credits for about 225 films. Also includes comic books, comic strips, TV and radio shows, operas, stage dramas, and musicals. Some bandw illustrations. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Canada. Parliament. House of Commons. Standing Committee on Broadcasting, Films and Assistance to the Arts
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
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Author: Max Braithwaite
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780771016325
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 215
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The book that inspired the classic film, Why Shoot the Teacher tells the story of a young man’s first collision with reality – an ill-paid teaching assignment in an isolated country school, in the prairies, during the Depression. The young man is, of course, Max Braithwaite, and the story he has to tell is riotous, grim, candid, and infinitely entertaining. While it is perhaps Braithwaite’s best-loved book, it is also a vivid evocation of the desolation wrought by the “Dirty Thirties” on the Saskatchewan Prairies, the ordeal of youth among a people bereft of pity and charity, and the human compassion that adds warmth and poignancy to the author’s recollections. From the Paperback edition.
Author: Hugh Aylmer Dempsey
Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : Historical Society of Alberta : McClelland and Stewart West
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 250
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Author: Max Braithwaite
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN:
Category : Short stories, Canadian
Languages : en
Pages : 272
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If "Why Shoot the Teacher," "Never Sleep Three in a Bed," and "The Night We Stole the Mountie's Car" made you smile, chuckle, and laugh out loud, then here (as the man said) is just the book for you! Yes, Max is back! And Braithwaite fans, along with anyone who reads for the warm companionship of a good laugh and some delightful insight, need look no further. Here is Max's Book of Books - the wit and wisdom of a forty-year career that has won the author hundreds of thousands of book-reading and movie-going fans, and a Stephen Leacock Award for Humour as well. Here is Braithwaite on growing up on the prairies in the twenties and thirties, on the growing pains associated with raising children of your own, on Ontario, where he now lives, on himself, and on his writing career. Each fiction and non-fiction piece in this colourful collection is prefaced by the author with a short introduction dealing with the work itself and the author's own feelings about it. Together, these personal observations provide a warm and insightful look at one man's career and personal life throughout a lifetime of writing for and about Canadians. "Max: The Best of Braithwaite" brings together all the places, times, and faces - pensive, nostalgic, humorous - that Braithwaite fans have come to expect and love. Max"imum" Braithwaite indeed!
Author: Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 846
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Author: Keith Walden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
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