Yesterday, a crowd gathered for the revelation of the finalists for the Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-fiction, near the cheese wall at Loblaws’ flagship store in Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens.
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- <i>Q&Q</i> reviewer Jan Dutkiewicz writes, Eksteins brings the exuberance and precariousness of the age, and of Berlin itself, to life with detail, wit, and a marvellously researched cast of characters. Coupled with the intriguing treatment of van Gogh as an amalgam of artist and celebrity, the component parts of which cannot be treated separately, this makes for fascinating reading.<br /> <br /> <a HREF="http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=7540">Read the rest of the review.</a><br />
- <I>Solar Dance: Genius, Forgery, and the Crisis of Truth in the Modern Age</I>, Modris Eksteins (Knopf Canada)
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- Newly appointed prize jurors Seamus O'Regan and Barbara Amiel Black with the Hon. Hilary M. Weston (centre)
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- Finalist JJ Lee appears via FaceTime
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- Jurors James Bartleman and Marni Jackson
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- Hon. Hilary M. Weston (centre) with award nominees Modris Eksteins and Kamal Al-Solaylee
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- Celebrating the shortlist (from left to right): jurors Barbara Amiel Black, James Bartleman, and Marni Jackson; Galen Weston
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- With his talent for description and rhythmic prose, it is easy to appreciate the accolades Taras Grescoe has garnered in recent years. Grescoe is the author of four previous books, including <i>Bottomfeeder</i>, a bestseller and winner of the Writers' Trust Prize for Non-fiction. His latest is a manifesto for car-free cities written as a travelogue. Starting with Shanghai and ending in his home city of Montreal, Grescoe takes us on a journey through systems of urban transportation around the world, writes Robert Meynell in his <i>Q&Q</i> review.<br /> <br /> <a HREF="http://www.quillandquire.com/reviews/review.cfm?review_id=7695">Read the rest of the review.</a>
- <I>Straphanger: Saving Our Cities and Ourselves from the Automobile</I>, <A HREF="http://www.quillandquire.com/blog/index.php/2012/09/25/mover-shaker-taras-grescoe/">Taras Grescoe</A> (HarperCollins Canada)
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- <a HREF="http://www.writerstrust.com/Awards/Hilary-Weston-Writers-Trust-Prize/2012-Finalists/Lee_Measure.aspx"> The Weston Prize jurors write,</a> JJ Lee artfully blends a first-person narrative with a sartorial history of that most symbolic of men's garments, the suit. <i>The Measure of a Man</i> is a memoir of a dysfunctional, occasionally violent, childhood and a biography of Lee's alcoholic, immigrant father. It is also the contemporary story of Lee's apprenticeship at a tailor's shop. Lee's disassembly and alteration of a jacket mirrors the reconstruction of his relationship with the suit's original wearer, his late father. By turns nostalgic and unflinching, these story strands weave together to form a poignant exploration of identity and manhood.
- <I>The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit</I>, JJ Lee (McClelland & Stewart)
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- <a HREF="http://www.writerstrust.com/Awards/Hilary-Weston-Writers-Trust-Prize/2012-Finalists/Savage_Geography.aspx">The Weston Prize jurors write,</a> One day in late September of 2000, Candace Savage travels from her home in Saskatoon to Eastend, a village of 600 people on the eastern edge of the Cypress Hills. A two week vacation evolves into a decade-long fascination with the region and the writing of <i>A Geography of Blood</i>, a part-memoir, part history, part geological survey, part lament, part condemnation of the accepted myth of the settlement of the Western Plains, and above all, a haunting meditation on time and place.
- <I>A Geography of Blood: Unearthing Memory from a Prairie Landscape</I>, Candace Savage (Greystone Books)
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- Kamal Al-Solaylee has been named winner of this year's Toronto Book Award for his memoir, <i>Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes</i>
- <I>Intolerable: A Memoir of Extremes</I>, Kamal Al-Solaylee (HarperCollins Canada)
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