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"A powerful stimulant to revive a country sleep-walking into dependence or disintegration." -- The Gazette
"A tour de force." -- Quill and Quire
"A tour de force." -- Quill and Quire
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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.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
It's the best thing I've ever read about Canada,
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This review is from: Reflections Of A Siamese Twin (Hardcover)
This is a wonderful book about Canada and its myths,illusions and nature. It is amazingly well written and truly exciting; I couldn't wait to read each new chapter. He writes about solitude versus isolation and its impact on the Canadian psyche, tying it all into the Rebellion of 1837. Wonderful.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Intriguing,
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This review is from: Reflections Of A Siamese Twin (Hardcover)
Thought provoking book about the re-writing of Canadian history. He brought out a number of interesting angles (art, music etc.) and staying with his philosophical methodology. However, I had hoped he would back up his "assertions" instead of stating "x" and expecting the reader to believe it is true as a matter of faith. Kierkagaard he is not, but a great writer none the less.
5.0 out of 5 stars
great insight to Canadian society & where it is coming from,
This review is from: Reflections of a Siamese Twin: Canada at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century (Paperback)
I am an Australian and visit Toronto and Montreal frequently, I was confused about the apparent tensions between segements of Canadian society. This book has given me a great insight - excellent.
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