Posted by Rizwan on 24/10/2009, 2:22:43, in reply to "Re: My nominations"
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I happened to be in Vancouver last summer when the "Globe & Mail" ran a feature on the 10 Best Canadian Novels ever written. I will try to find a link and send, or I'll try to locate the actual clipping (which I have saved somewhere).
Anyway, the reason I mention this is because a couple of Margaret Laurence's books were often nominated, and the one that was voted #1 overall was "The Stone Angel." I had never even heard of the book, but I read it soon after that and liked it.
Short stories were not considered, otherwise I'm sure Alice Munro would have made the list as well. But also on the list, as I recall, were Richler's "Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz" and Robertson Davies' "Fifth Business" (one of my favorite books ever).
"Winesburg, Ohio"--I have heard great things about this book and have always wanted to read it. Anderson is largely forgotten now, but Faulkner, Hemingway, and many others cited him as a major influence back in their day.
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: Here is what I came up with after hours and hours of
: study. It seems like most of the books that sound
: interesting to me are already nominated and otherwise
: I seem to be in a very choosy mood.
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: (I did not want to re-nominate the books that have
: already been nominated. I will vote for them. To widen
: our choices I wanted to nominate books that haven't
: been already mentioned. I apologize for the Canadian
: bent, I thought the more Canadian books make the list
: the more chances of having one in the top 12.)
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: 1 - Esther (first published in 1884) - Henry Adams
: (1838 - 1918)
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: 2- Auto-da-fe - Elias Canetti (1981 Nobel Literature
: Laureate - Elias Canetti's background is interesting
: to me because his family was one of the thousands of
: Jewish families who were welcomed in Ottoman Empire
: upon their escape from Spanish inquisition.)
:
: 3- Winesburg, Ohio - Sherwood Anderson (1876 - 1941)
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: 4- Libra - Don DeLillo
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: 5- Sister Carrie - Theodore Dreiser (1871 - 1945) (I
: wouldn't mind changing this to "An American
: Tragedy" if more people prefer that one)
:
: 6- Under the Net - Iris Murdoch (this book made my
: list at the very last minute. In its place I
: originally had Beggarman, Thief by Irwin Shaw but when
: I realized that it was a sequel to Rich Man, Poor Man,
: I deleted it and started looking for a replacement
: from the TIMES top 100 list. I had watched a movie on
: Murdoch's last years (alzheimers) which was very sad,
: and I have never read any of her books.)
:
: 7- The Stone Angel - Margaret Laurence
: (Canadian)(this book is marked as one that put
: Canadian literature on the map.)
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: 8 - Therese - Francois Mauriac (1952 – Nobel)
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: 9 - The Origin of Species - Nino Ricci
: (Canadian)(21st century)
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: 10- The Law of Dreams - Peter Behrens
: (Canadian)(21st century)
:
: I hope I did good. I really tried to be diverse. This
: is the best I could come up with.
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