Points of View
- ISBN-10
- 0771065272
- ISBN-13
- 9780771065279
- Series
- Points of View
- Category
- Canada
- Pages
- 312
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003
- Publisher
- M&S
- Author
- Rex Murphy
Description
His millions of fans will hear Rex's voice in every line of this wide-ranging selection Rex Murphy left his outpost home in Newfoundland to go to university at the age of 15. Since that time (including a spell at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar) he has been writing and talking. His skills in that area have made him Canada’s most-watched TV commentator – with an opinion spot on CBC-TV’s “The National” – while his speeches have earned standing ovations from coast to coast. And, always, his audience wants to know “When will you put this in a book?” The answer is “NOW.” Here, Rex has selected the best from thirty years of writing and speech-making – a variety that reveals the range of his mind. Here you’ll find tributes to people as apparently unlinked as Joey Smallwood and William Shakespeare; book reviews that turn into instructive essays about other places in other centuries; hard-hitting attacks on politicians and other malefactors that will have you cheering as you read; hilarious satires on human folly; and gentle memories of Newfoundland and its people. You will close this book with a sense of a wide-ranging intelligence and fascinating mind at work. From the Hardcover edition.
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- 2007-12-21
- - pages
- Paperback
- McGraw-Hill Education
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- 2007
- 96 pages
- Paperback
- That Patchwork Place
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- 2006-01-09
- 336 pages
- Paperback
- McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
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