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The Blythes Are Quoted on CBC’s “Year in Books”
Posted on 28 December 2009 2 commentsThe publication of The Blythes Are Quoted has been selected as one of the “10 biggest publishing stories of 2009″ on a CBC.ca news story:
Fans of the precocious, freckle-faced redhead from P.E.I. had reason to rejoice this year when an amended version of the final Anne Shirley stories was released under a new title, The Blythes Are Quoted. But the book’s additional 100 pages revealed a darker story – complete with references to adultery and suicide. Novelist Jane Urquhart ably provided a context for these bleak scenes in her comprehensive, unflinching biography of Anne’s author, Lucy Maud Montgomery. Anne’s banner year ended with a triumphant Sotheby’s auction – proof that great CanLit never goes out of fashion.
See “The Year in Books” for the full story.
2 responses to “The Blythes Are Quoted on CBC’s “Year in Books””
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Excellent interview — fascinated to hear that even an author of LMM’s stature was competing against capricious market demands. Also appreciated your views on the sad, sagging ’suicide’ debate.
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Thanks, Sean! Yes, it’s easy to forget the role that the market plays with LMM, since her work has been around so long, but she did write for a market, after all: not only her twenty novels but more than one thousand periodical pieces over a fifty-year period, from 1890 to 1940.
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