{"product_id":"9781550051841","title":"Beyond the Blue Mountain: An Autobiography","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eLetter to the Past, \u003c\/i\u003ethe first part of his autobiography, George Woodcock dealt with his youth and adolescence in Britain through World War One and Two and through the Depression. Now this great Canadian man of letters turns his attention to his return to Canada, and deals with the period between 1949 and 1977.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBeyond the Blue Mountains \u003c\/i\u003edetails Woodcock’s life in the British Columbia bush, his close and longstanding relationship with the Doukhobors, his battles with US immigration officials. We learn of the founding of the influential \u003ci\u003eCanadian Literature \u003c\/i\u003ereview, and we follow Mr. Woodcock on his extended and beautifully-described tours of India and the South Seas.\u003cbr\u003eGeorge Woodcock is not only a revered literary critic. He is also a gifted and witty raconteur. \u003ci\u003eBeyond the Blue Mountains \u003c\/i\u003eallows us further insights into the life of this fascinating man.\u003cbr\u003eWinner of the Governor General’s Award, the author now lives in Vancouver, where he founded and edited for many years \u003ci\u003eCanadian Literature. \u003c\/i\u003eHe has written countless articles and books, including critical studies of novelists Hugh MacLennan and Mordecai Richler as well as biographies of George Orwell, Thomas Merton and Oscar Wilde. He is also responsible for the panoramic study of Canada entitled \u003ci\u003eThe Canadians. \u003c\/i\u003eMr. Woodcock has recently returned from a trip to China.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHere is what the critics have said of \u003ci\u003eLetter to the Past: \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e“It is not so much that chronicling the lives of William Godwin, Kropotkin, and Proudhon has constituted for Woodcock a profession like that of a portraitist; more that the underlying emotional attributes of anarchism — a profound distrust of all authority mixed with a liberal dash of utopianism — have been the informing principles in his life.”\u003cbr\u003e— \u003ci\u003eSaturday Night \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e“The graceful prose is so rich in detail that its effect is almost that of a life invented, not remembered.”  \u003cbr\u003e— \u003ci\u003eMacleans \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fitzhenry \u0026 Whiteside, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47045573771504,"sku":"9781550051841","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781550051841_p0.jpg?v=1763755678","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781550051841","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}