Working the Dead Beat
50 Lives that Changed Canada
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Globe and Mail columnist Sandra Martin honours the lives of Canada's famous, infamous, and unsung heroes in this unique collection of obituaries of the first decade of the twenty-first century. Here are Canadian icons such as Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, economist John Kenneth Galbraith, social activist June Callwood, and urban theorist Jane Jacobs. Here are builders such as feminist and editor Doris Anderson, and businessman and famed art collector Ken Thomson. Here are our rogues, rascals, and romantics; our service men and women; and here are those private citizens whose lives have had an undeniable public impact. Finally, Martin interweaves these elegant and eloquent biographies with the autobiography of the obit writer, offering an exclusive and intimate view of life on the dead beat.
Beautifully written, compelling, and vivid, Working the Dead Beat is a tribute to those individuals who, each on their own and as a collective, tell the story of our country, and to the life of the obit writer who chronicles their extraordinary lives.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Frankly, we’d never paused to actually think about how forks and other culinary tools came to be—that is, until we read this fascinating book. Noted food writer Bee Wilson makes magic out of what seems mundane by writing cleverly about the thought-provoking lineage of everything from pots and plates to ice, boiling, and measuring. By showing how these implements and techniques have shaped what we eat, she offers interesting reflections of how our cultures have evolved—all in a light, lively tone sprinkled with gee-whiz facts about everyday things we never think about.
