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How I Spent My Summer Holidays

How I Spent My Summer Holidays

How I Spent My Summer Holidays
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How I Spent My Summer Holidays

by Mitchell, W. O. (SIGNED)

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  • Hardcover
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ISBN 10
0771595999
ISBN 13
9780771595998
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Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1981. First Edition, Second Printing . Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. October, 1981. Book, by the author of " Who Has Seen the Wind? " is also about growing up on the prairies, in the summer. 224 pp. Book has grey paper covered boards bound with mustard coloured cloth with gold text. Spine ends very slightly rubbed, edges are age-toned. Unclipped, unpriced, wraparound DJ has edge/shelf wear, some chipping, sticker scar at tail of spine. SIGNED by author in blue ink. Bookseller's Inventory # 144219.

Synopsis

W.O. Mitchell , the only Canadian author recognizable by initials alone, was born in Weyburn, Saskatchewan in 1914. Educated at the University of Manitoba, he lived most of his life in Saskatchewan, Ontario, and Alberta, where for many years he was the most renowned resident in High River. He and his wife, Merna, subsequently moved to Calgary. During a very varied career Bill Mitchell travelled widely and was everything from a Depression hobo to the fiction editor of Maclean ’ s . A gifted teacher, he was visiting professor at the University of Windsor for several years, and a creative writing instructor at the Banff Centre for many summers. His best-loved book is Who Has Seen the Wind . Since its publication in 1947 it has sold over half a million copies in Canada alone, and is hailed as the greatest Canadian book on boyhood. The classic edition, illustrated by William Kurelek, became a bestseller in 1991. Complementing that book is his 1981 best-seller How I Spent My Summer Holidays , hailed by some critics as his finest novel, although Since Daisy Creek (1984) and Ladybug, Ladybug …(1988), Roses Are Difficult Here (1990), For Art's Sake (1992) and The Black Bonspiel of Willie MacCrimmon (1993), illustrated by Wesley W. Bates, were also well-received best-sellers. Besides The Kite (1962) and The Vanishing Point (1973), he was also noted for his two collections of short stories, Jake and the Kid (1962) and According to Jake and the Kid (1989). Based on the legendary CBC radio Series, both classic story collections won the Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour. His last book, An Evening with W.O. Mitchell , contains his most popular performance pieces, and concludes with “The Poetry of Life”, the lecture that he delivered from a wheelchair to The Writers’ Union Conference in Winnipeg in 1996. A noted performer of his own work, W.O. Mitchell recorded cassette versions of both Who Has Seen the Wind and According to Jake and the Kid , while a selection of pieces from An Evening with W.O. Mitchell , performed by W.O., is also available on cassette. Our novelist and script-writer was also a successful playwright whose five plays are included in the collection entitled Dramatic W.O. Mitchell . He was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 1973, and was an honorary member of the Privy Council. He was the subject of a National Film Board documentary, and in 1994 he was awarded the Writers Guild of Alberta Golden Pen Award for Lifetime Achievement. In 1996 the City of Calgary named its book prize in his honour. He was, in Pierre Berton’s words, “an original.” W.O. Mitchell died in February 1998 at his home in Calgary.

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Bookseller
Lower Beverley Better Books CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
004219
Title
How I Spent My Summer Holidays
Author
Mitchell, W. O. (SIGNED)
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Near Fine
Jacket Condition
Very Good
Quantity Available
1
Edition
First Edition, Second Printing
ISBN 10
0771595999
ISBN 13
9780771595998
Publisher
Macmillan of Canada
Place of Publication
Toronto
Date Published
1981
Size
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall

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