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Hard-Headed and Big-Hearted: Writing Newfoundland
By Stuart Pierson
Edited by Stan Dragland
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Genre: Literary Collection
Imprint: Pennywell Books
Format: Paperback, 437 pages, b&w and colour photos, colour illustrations
Pub Date: October 2006
Price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1-894463-91-9
ISBN-13: 978-1-894463-91-1Shipping Weight: 0.7 kg
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About this Book
“I am not a ‘Newfoundlander,’” Stuart Pierson wrote in “A Diatribe,” his controversial review of Historical Atlas of Canada; “it takes a few generations to achieve that.” But he had with passion observed and commented on Newfoundland culture for many years before his early death in 2001. To adapt his own words, he was a “terrieresque reader” who sank his teeth into a subject and never let go, a scholar of encyclopedic knowledge in several fields who achieved a plainly eloquent literary style. This book presents all of Stuart Pierson's significant writings on Newfoundland culture—historical, literary, and visual. It is a posthumous gift to his adopted nation/province and to readers everywhere, because in Pierson's spacious thinking Newfoundland culture is a fascinating instance of world culture.
Review Quotes
"[The essays] are incisive and witty,
brilliantly blending classical erudition and folksy metaphor."
Canadian Book Review Annual
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