| Contents |
Surfacing -- Beautiful losers -- Fifth business -- The national dream -- The diviners -- The double hook -- The Torontonians -- Understanding media -- Procedures for underground -- New wave Canada -- The boat who wouldn't float -- The new Romans -- Cocksure -- George, Vancouver -- Next episode -- In Hardy country -- Lives of girls and women -- Civil elegies. |
| Abstract |
"In the mid-twentieth century, Canadian literature was transformed from a largely ignored trickle of books into an enormous cultural phenomenon that produced Margaret Atwood, Alice Munro, Michael Ondaatje, and Mordecai Richler, and so many others. In Arrival, acclaimed writer and critic Nick Mount answers the question: What caused the CanLit Boom?"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Other forms | Issued also in electronic format. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| ISBN | 9781770892217 (hardcover) |
| ISBN | 1770892214 (hardcover) |
