Research Catalog

Title

What is Stephen Harper reading? : Yann Martel's recommended reading for a prime minister (and book lovers of all stripes) / Yann Martel.

Author

Martel, Yann

Publication

Toronto : Vintage Canada, c2009.

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Details

Description

233 p. : ports.; 21 cm.

Summary

From the author of Life of Pi comes a literary correspondence - recommendations to Canada's Prime Minister of great short books that will inspire and delight book lovers and book club readers across our nation. Every two weeks since April 16th, 2007, Yann Martel has mailed Stephen Harper a book along with a letter. These insightful, provocative letters detailing what he hopes the Prime Minister may take from the books - by such writers as Jane Austen, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Stephen Galloway - are collected here together. The one-sided correspondence (Mr. Harper's office has only replied once) becomes a meditation on reading and writing and the necessity to allow ourselves to expand stillness in our lives, even if we're not head of government.

Subject

• Martel, Yann > Books and reading
• Martel, Yann > Correspondence
• Harper, Stephen, 1959-
• Martel, Yann > Livres et lecture
• Martel, Yann > Correspondance
• Best books
• Meilleurs ouvrages

Genre/Form

Personal correspondence

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The death of Ivan Ilych / by Leo Tolstoy -- Animal farm / by George Orwell -- The murder of Roger Ackroyd / by Agatha Christie -- By Grand central station I sat down and wept / by Elizabeth Smart -- The Bhagavad Gita -- Bonjour Tristesse / by Françoise Sagan -- Candide / by Voltaire -- Short and sweet: 101 very short poems / editied by Simon Armitage -- Chronicle of a death foretold / by Gabriel García Márquez -- Miss Julia / by August Strindberg -- The Watsons / by Jane Austen -- Maus / by Art Spiegelman -- To kill a mockingbird / by Harper Lee -- Le petit Prince / by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -- Oranges are not the only fruit / by Jeanette Winterson -- Letters to a young poet / by Rainer Maria Rilke -- The island means minago / by Milton Acorn -- Metamorphosis / by Franz Kafka -- The brothers Lionheart / by Astrid Lindgren -- Imagine a day / by Sarah L. Thomson and Rob Gonsalves -- The mysteries of Harris Burdick / by Chris Van Allsburg -- The educated imagination / by Northrop Frye -- The cellist of Sarajevo / by Steven Galloway -- Meditations / by Marcus Aurelius -- Artists and models / by Anaïs Nin -- Waiting for Godot / by Samuel Beckett -- The dragonfly of Chicoutimi / by Larry Tremblay -- Birthday letters / by Ted Hughes -- To the lighthouse / by Virginia Woolf -- Read all about it! / by Laura Bush and Jenna Bush -- Drown / by Junot Díaz -- The Kreutzer sonata / by Leo Tolstoy -- Their eyes were watching God / by Zora Neale Hurtson -- The Rez sisters / by Tomson Highway -- Persepolis / by Marjane Satrapi -- The bluest eye / by Toni Morrison -- Under milk wood / by Dylan Thomas -- Everything that rises must converge / by Flannery O'Connor -- A modest proposal / by Jonathan Swift -- Anthem / by Ayn Rand -- Mister Pip / by Lloyd Jones -- A clockwork orange / by Anthony Burgess -- Gilgamesh in an English version / by Stephen Mitchell -- Gilgamesh in an English version / by Derrek Hines -- The uncommon reader / by Alan Bennett -- The good earth / by Pearl S. Buck -- Fictions / by Jorge Luis Borges -- Blackbird singing: poems and lyrics 1965-1999 / by Paul McCartney -- The lesser evil: political ethics in an age of terror / by Michael Ignatieff -- Gilead / by Marilynne Robinson -- The old man and the sea / by Ernest Hemingway -- Jane Austen: A life / by Carol Shields -- Julius Caesar / by William Shakespeare -- Burning ice: art & climate change / a collaboration organized by David Buckland and the Cape Farewell Foundation -- Louis Riel / by Chester Brown -- The sailor who fell from grace with the sea / by Yukio Mishima -- The gift / by Lewis Hyde.

ISBN

• 9780307398673
• 0307398676

OCLC

• 417025567
• SCSB-12128353

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library