By Roy Macskimming
“Publishing Canadian books has constantly been an scan. just like the nice experiments of creating a transcontinental railway and a countrywide broadcasting method, it constitutes one of many nation’s defining acts. Publishing, in any case, is a people’s method of telling its tale to itself.”
–from the Introduction
Part cultural background, half own memoir, this complete, sweeping, but intimate booklet demonstrates that the tale of Canadian publishing is among the cornerstones of our literary history.
In The Perilous Trade, former writer, literary journalist, and insider Roy MacSkimming chronicles the intense trip of English-language publishing from the second one global battle to the current. in the course of a interval of unheard of transformation, Canada grew from a cultural colony ate up the literary choices of London and ny to a mature kingdom whose writers are celebrated world wide. the most important to that evolution have been 3 generations of e-book publishers – mavericks, gamblers, marketers, political activists, and precise believers – sharing a conviction that Canadians desire books in their personal.
Canadian publishing has lengthy made headlines -be it Jack McClelland’s outrageous exposure stunts, American takeovers, the cave in of venerable imprints, or daring political strikes to make sure the industry’s survival. Roy MacSkimming takes us in the back of the headlines to attract memorable snap shots of the boys and ladies who outfitted Canada’s literary renaissance. With a novelist’s eye for personality and incident, he weaves their tangled relationships with authors, brokers, booksellers and every different right into a energetic narrative wealthy in anecdote and revealing own recollection. Canadian publishers huge and small have nurtured a literature of notable range and breadth, MacSkimming argues, giving us English Canada’s maximum cultural achievement.
From the Hardcover edition.
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