Speaking in the past tense
Subtitle: Canadian novelists on writing historical fiction
By: Herb Wyile.
Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Waterloo, Ont
Language: eng
Number of pages: 327
ISBN-13: 9780889205116
Subjects: Vanderhaeghe, Guy, -- 1951- -- Interviews.; Wiebe, Rudy Henry, -- 1934- -- Interviews.; Urquhart, Jane -- Interviews.; Johnston, Wayne -- Interviews.; Clarke, George Elliott -- Interviews.; Sweatman, Margaret -- Interviews.; Stenson, Fred, -- 1951- -- Interviews.; Boyden, Joseph, -- 1966- -- Interviews.; Robertson, Heather, -- 1942- -- Interviews.; Wharton, Thomas, -- 1963- -- Interviews.; Crummey, Michael, -- 1965- -- Interviews.; Historical fiction, Canadian -- History and criticism.; Historical fiction, Canadian -- Authorship.; Novelists, Canadian -- Interviews.
Genres: Interviews.
Description: Consists of interviews with eleven Canadian historical novelists.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Making history : Guy Vanderhaeghe; title: Walking where his feet can walk : Rudy Wiebe; title: Confessions of a historical geographer : Jane Urquhart; title: An afterlife endlessly revised : Wayne Johnston; title: "We have to recover their bodies" : George Elliott Clarke; title: Ghosts are our allies : Margaret Sweatman; title: History "from the workingman's end of the telescope" : Fred Stenson; title: Pushing out the poison : Joseph Boyden; title: In the lair of the minotaur : Heather Robertson; title: The iceman cometh across : Thomas Wharton; title: The living haunt the dead : Michael Crummey.