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Taras Grescoe is the author of Sacre Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec, which won the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction and was a national bestseller in Canada

Bevat de naam: Taras Grescoe

Fotografie: Courtesy of Serpent's Tail Press

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Geboortedatum
1966
Geslacht
male
Nationaliteit
Canada (birth)
Geboorteplaats
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Woonplaatsen
Montreal, Quebec, Canada

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Terrific biography, very detailed. It gave more insight to the great man and proved that he was human.
 
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k.a.mulenga_writer | 9 andere besprekingen | Mar 27, 2023 |
Good overview of urbanism through the lens of transit. I liked that he gives sone commentary on the class/race/political issues surrounding development and transit.
 
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yukonho | 21 andere besprekingen | Aug 20, 2020 |
A grim read about the future of the oceans
 
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PDCRead | Apr 6, 2020 |
After some initial confusion [I thought this was a romantic novel but it’s a true romance] Shanghai Grand developed into one of the most intoxicating books to come my way for years.

Zau Sinmay was a handsome, cosmopolitan Chinese poet; Mickey Hahn was a beautiful and slightly outrageous American journalist: they met in Sir Victor Sassoon’s fabulous Cathay Hotel in 1936 and fell scandalously in love.

The personalities range from gangsters to Russian aristocrats, authors to spies, millionaire colonials to Jewish refugees, but most fascinating of all, is the seductive city of Shanghai.… (meer)
 
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Werken
9
Leden
910
Populariteit
#28,190
Waardering
4.0
Besprekingen
52
ISBNs
53
Talen
2
Favoriet
1

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