Reflections Of A Siamese Twin Saul, John Ralston

Reflections Of A Siamese Twin Saul, John Ralston

ISBN 10: 0670870994 / ISBN 13: 9780670870998

Published by Viking Penguin, 1997

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reflections Of A Siamese Twin Saul, John Ralston
• Publisher: Viking Penguin
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0670870994
• ISBN 13: 9780670870998
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

In Reflections of a Siamese Twin, Saul turns his eye from a reinterpretation of the Western world to an examination of Canada itself. Caught up in crises-political, economic, and social-Canada continues to flounder, unable to solve or even really identify its problems. Instead, we assert absolute differences between ourselves: we are English or we are French; Natives or Europeans; early immigrants or newly arrived, from the east or from the west. Or we bow to ideologies and deny all differences in the name of nationalism, unity, or equality. In a startling exercise in reorientation, John Ralston Saul makes sense of Canadian myths-real, false, denied-and reconciles them with the reality of today's politics, culture, and economics.

About the Author

John Ralston Saul is Canada’s leading public intellectual. Declared a “prophet” by Time magazine, Saul has received many awards and prizes, including Chile’s Pablo Neruda Medal. He is president of PEN International, an organization dedicated to freedom of expression. He has published fourteen works, which have been translated into twenty-five languages in thirty-six countries, the most recent of which is The Comeback, an examination of the remarkable return to power of Aboriginal people in Canada. Saul lives in Toronto.