Shut Up He Explained: A Literary Memoir Vol. II

Metcalf, John

ISBN 10: 1897231326 / ISBN 13: 9781897231326

Published by Biblioasis, Emeryville, Ontario, Canada, 2007

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402 Pages Illus.

Seller Inventory # 037832

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shut Up He Explained: A Literary Memoir Vol. II
• Publisher: Biblioasis, Emeryville, Ontario, Canada
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1897231326
• ISBN 13: 9781897231326
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: New
• Dust Jacket Condition: New
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Canadiana

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Synopsis

John Metcalf's Shut Up He Explained defies expectations and strict definition. Part memoir, part travelogue, part criticism -- wholly Metcalf -- it is thoughtful, engaged, contentious and often very funny. It offers a full does of Metcalfian wisdom and wit, and provides ample evidence that neither age nor indifference nor attack have withered him: he remains as sharp, critical, constructive and insightful as ever. Indeed, this may just be his most important and engaged book. Certainly it will be among his most controversial. What his critics will refuse to see, of course, is that it is also among his most positive, that it is a celebration of the best literature Canada has to offer, the birth of which Metcalf himself both witnesses and actively encouraged. Shut Up He Explained is magisterial, a virtuoso performance melding several seemingly different strands into one coherent narrative, which should delight and entertain as it serves to argue, elucidate and celebrate.

About the Author

John Metcalf: John Metcalf was Senior Editor at the Porcupine's Quill until 2005, and is now Fiction Editor at Biblioasis. A scintillating writer and an almost magisterial editor and anthologist, he is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction and non-fiction, including Standing Stones: Selected Stories, Adult Entertainment, Going Down Slow and Kicking Against the Pricks. He lives in Ottawa with his wife, Myrna.