Harry Bruce
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Language
English
Description
In 1971, Harry Bruce, recognized as one of Canada's top non-fiction writers, lost his mind-according to his peers-when he left bustling, lucrative Toronto and moved his family to the tough little seaport of Halifax.
Harry was already acquainted with Halifax; at eighteen, he lived at HMCS Stadacona as an officer-cadet in the Royal Canadian Navy. He joined the navy chiefly to lose his virginity. "For what finer way could there be to serve queen and...
Author
Language
English
Description
Favourably reviewing Harry Bruce's Down Home: Notes of a Native Son more than 30 years ago, a critic in The Globe and Mail reported that it was from this book he'd learned that Nova Scotians often judged people or things on an ascending scale of merit that went like this: "good, some good, right some good, or right some Jesus good." Down Home, he decided, was "right some good."
Other critics have been less reticent. Bruce's writing has inspired them...
Author
Language
English
Description
Harry Bruce's last book is a collection of stories from a career that spans nearly 70 years in journalism, interviewing some of the most interesting and influential figures from Canada's recent history. He recounts his encounters with millionaires, prime ministers, movers and shakers.
Characters Along the Road finds its stories in the blustery halls of Parliament and on the windswept shores of Nova Scotia. Bruce follows the powerful players who've...
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Publisher
Thomas & Mercer
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
81 short stories of criminal adventures by as many authors.