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Synopsis
In this strikingly original look at modern culture, Robert Fulford pursues an unusual subject across a bizarre landscape whose features include urban legends, The Birth of a Nation, Jack Nicholson, Ivanhoe, TV News, Vladimir Nabokov, sex scandals and gossip, and The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
Fulford sees storytelling as the core of civilized life, the juncture where facts and feeling meet, the bundle in which we wrap truth, hope, and dread. Narrative, he says is how we explain, how we teach, how we entertain ourselves - and how we often do all three at once. He distils half a century of experience as a journalist and critic into an account of human lives shaping stories and stories shaping human lives, and he asserts with special passion "the value of those unruly and unaccredited forms of narrative that arise from conversation, in particular the stories, true and untrue, that we tell about ourselves and people we know."
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About the Author
Robert Fulford writes a weekly column for "The Globe & Mail" , and a monthly column for "Toronto Life". He is the author of several books, and was the editor of "Saturday Night" magazine for 19 years.
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Robert Fulford's engaging discussion of the path of narrative wanders from the roots of romanticism to modern-day government paranoia, from unreliable narrators to urban legends. And it is perhaps a more instructive meditation for writers than the ubiquitous how-to tomes on the writing life. Fulford's tone is that of a learned, friendly, college professor lecturing to a room of attentive students; listeners may find themselves with the sudden urge to take notes. While extremely well researched, the timely discourse also benefits from Fulford's obvious joy in relaying his own observations and experiences, in telling the story of storytelling. J.M.D. © AudioFile 2000, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine
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