Isabel Huggan
Auteur van The Elizabeth Stories
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Isabel Huggan was born on September 21, 1943, in Ontario, Canada. She attended the University of Western Ontario and briefly worked for Macmillan Publishing after graduation. She later taught high school English and worked as a reporter and photographer. She wrote several collections of short toon meer stories including The Elizabeth Stories and You Never Know. Her memoir Belonging: Home Away from Home won the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction in 2004. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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- Geboortedatum
- 1943
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Canada
- Land (voor op de kaart)
- Canada
- Geboorteplaats
- Kitchener, Ontario, Canada
- Woonplaatsen
- Elmira, Ontario, Canada
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Languedoc, France - Relaties
- Huggan, Robert (husband)
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Oh, so this is the second book in a series? If only Goodreads had a way to let the author tell the readers that. Oh wait.
i loved this. she hasn't written any other non-fiction! and now she's old. i see that 6 people were soso about this and 7 people really liked it.
Iconic collection of linked coming-of-age stories by one of Canada's best writers. This is one of those rare books that sets a standard to which others must aspire. Narrated in precise, metaphor-rich language that leaves an indelible impression on the reader. A classic of Canadian literature and absolutely essential reading for anyone who wants to write short stories.
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Canadian author Isabel Huggan & her husband fell in love with southern France on a holiday trip there and decided to relocate their home to where they had left their hearts. They intended it to be ‘home’, not a holiday house nor a second home but their permanent residence.
I choose to think that those of us who settle here permanently—définitivement—are more kindly looked upon than those who just drop in for a few weeks of sunny weather. But I may be fooling myself.
Huggan explores the concept of ‘belonging” not only in relation to fitting in and becoming a part of the French community, but also in relation to no longer ‘belonging’ in Canada when they visit.
Although I had initially thought that the part about acclimatizing to France would be the bit that ‘spoke’ to me, her thoughts on no longer belonging to her native land resonated more with me. I was born and raised and lived the first 48 years of my life in Ontario, but now that we have been in Nova Scotia for nearly 15 years, we find Ontario to be a foreign country when we visit.
It’s well worth reading this lovely narrative.
4 stars… (meer)