Name: Inland Navigation by the Stars: A Memoir, Paperback/Coleman Anne
Brand: BPS Books
Price: 110.99 RON
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"Coleman's keen observations about her long life make INLAND NAVIGATION BY THE STARS not only an intimate personal memoir but also a work of social history. Her reflections of the times she grew up in are compassionate yet critical and provide a unique and engaging insight into both Coleman herself and the challenges that women in Canada have faced over the last eighty years." -SONJA LARSEN, award-winning author of Red Star Tattoo FROM THE AUTHOR OF I'LL TELL YOU A SECRET Growing up in Toronto, Ontario, and North Hatley, Quebec, Anne Coleman was a combination of pre-feminist independent girl and literary dreamer. With literature as her source of information about life she married Frank, a handsome, brilliant Slovenian whose family had lost their famous Grand Hotel Toplice in Bled, northern Yugoslavia, to the Nazis and then to the Communists. He was just the type of man-with-a-troubled-past her reading had demanded she find. The marriage alternated between happiness and darkness, with Frank descending into bouts of alcoholism and depression as a result of his childhood trauma at the hands of the Nazis. After a dramatic escape from the marriage with her two small children, Anne had to start over. She earned a Master's degree in English from Bishop's University, and then taught for five years at Miss Edgar's and Miss Cramp's School in Montreal and for thirty years at a college in Kamloops, BC, now Thompson Rivers University. Before heading west she was part of the liveliest lite