Wisdom in Nonsense
University of Alberta Press (Verlag)
978-1-77212-377-7 (ISBN)
I broke all the rules that my dad gave me.
It was he who had given me, in part, the confidence to think of my life as being worthy to mix with those of the geniuses. —Heather O’Neill
With generosity and wry humour, novelist Heather O’Neill recalls several key lessons she learned in childhood from her father: memories and stories about how crime does pay, why one should never keep a diary, and that it is good to beware of clowns, among other things. Her father and his eccentric friends—ex-bank robbers and homeless men—taught her that everything she did was important, a belief that she has carried through her life. O’Neill’s intimate recollections make Wisdom in Nonsense the perfect companion to her widely praised debut novel, Lullabies for Little Criminals (HarperCollins).
Heather O’Neill is a novelist, short story writer, and essayist. Her work, which includes Lullabies for Little Criminals, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night, Daydreams of Angels, and The Lonely Hearts Hotel, has been shortlisted for the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, The Orange Prize for Fiction, and the Scotiabank Giller Prize, and has won CBC Canada Reads, The Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction, and the Danuta Gleed Literary Award. She lives in Montreal. Kit Dobson is Professor of English at Mount Royal University. He teaches and publishes in the areas of Canadian literature, film, and globalization studies.
Prelude 1
Lesson 1 | Never Keep a Diary 3
Lesson 2 | Learn to Play the Tuba 5
Lesson 3 | Never Share Your Scientific Research 7
Lesson 4 | Make Friends with Jewish Kids 9
Lesson 5 | Accept That You’re Ugly and Move On 11
Lesson 6 | Never Tell Anyone What Your Parents Do for a Living 13
Lesson 7 | Know About Art History 15
Lesson 8 | Crime Does Pay 17
Lesson 9 | Enjoy a Fondue Dinner 19
Lesson 10 | Respect Old Timers 23
Lesson 11 | It’s the Thought That Counts 27
Lesson 12 | Never Watch a Paul Newman Movie 31
Lesson 13 | Beware of Clowns 35
Coda | Sometimes There Is Nothing to Be Learned 39
| Erscheinungsdatum | 03.02.2018 |
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| Reihe/Serie | CLC Kreisel Lecture Series |
| Verlagsort | Alberta |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 203 mm |
| Gewicht | 96 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-77212-377-3 / 1772123773 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-77212-377-7 / 9781772123777 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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