Big reader : essays

Summary: "Big Reader is a collection of essays about memory, identity, loss, and reading from one of Canada's finest essayists. Through every life experience -- from the dissolution of her marriage to the forging of a tentative relationship with her new partner's daughter, to discovering Toronto as an undergrad to, years later, watching her mother slowly go blind -- Olding crafts exquisite, searingly honest essays about what it means to be a person, to be a woman, and to be a reader."--

Record details

ISBN: 1988298830
ISBN: 1988298822
ISBN: 9781988298832
ISBN: 9781988298825
Physical Description: 1 online resource
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Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : Freehand Books, 2021.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references.

Formatted Contents Note:

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Prologue -- Possibilities -- Verso -- In Anna Karenina Furs -- Chorus -- A Pilgrimage to Hampstead, or Household Pets of the Great and Lesser Poets -- East of the Sun -- Wicked -- Ice -- Another Writer's Beginnings -- Extra, Extra! -- Library Haunting -- Hinge -- Light Reading: A Triptych -- Recto -- A Rake's Progress -- Leaves -- A Different River -- Billy -- Unruly Pupil -- St. Christopher House -- Beach Reading -- An Open Book -- Blood Typing -- Epilogue -- White Matter -- Addenda -- Unpacking My Library -- Notes -- Acknowledgements