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House Of All Sorts, The [Paperback]

Emily Carr (Author)

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Paperback: 160 pages
Publisher: Douglas & Mcintyre (May 28 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1553650549
ISBN-13: 978-1553650546
Product Dimensions: 20.4 x 13.5 x 1.4 cm
Shipping Weight: 204 g
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #163,181 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #45 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Canadian > Collections & Readers
- #55 in Books > Biographies & Memoirs > Regional Canada > Maritime Provinces

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"I predict that Emily Carr will be generally recognixed as one of the foremost among the few important writers that Canada has produced." (Robertson Davies 20040501)

"Carr is a magical wordsmith whose gorgeous prose reflects a desire for simplicity even as it sensually mirrors life in its teeming complexity." (Publisher's Weekly )

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Before winning recognition for her painting and writing, Emily Carr built a small apartment building with four suites that she hoped would earn her a living. But things turned out worse than expected, and in her forties, the gifted artist found herself shoveling coal and cleaning up other people's messes.

The House of All Sorts is a collection of forty-one stories of those hard-working days and the parade of tenants -- young couples, widows, sad bachelors and rent evaders. Carr is at her most rueful, but filled with energy and an inextinguishable hope.

Carr also ran a small kennel and bred bobtails to help out her meagre income. In an additional twenty-five stories, she lovingly describes the mutual bonds of affection and companionship between her and her dogs.

Her writing is vital and direct, aware and poignant, and as well regarded today as when The House of All Sorts was first published in 1944 to critical and popular acclaim.

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THE HOUSE OF All Sorts could not have been quite itself in any other spot in the world than just where it stood, here, in Victoria, across James' Bay and right next to Beacon Hill Park. Read the first page

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The House of All Sorts is one of my favourites from Emily Carr, along with The Book of Small. This one concentrates on the part of her life when she let out rooms in her Victoria B.C house to make ends meet, and bred her sheepdogs. She tells the tales of her tenants with complete honesty and much humor. Her struggles with life as a landlady, the good and bad and riduculous.
This isn't a book about her art (though it does come up in parts) or with the native people that inspired it, Klee Wyck might be better for that.
Loved this book.

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