The good: Richler gives an illustrative account of the challenges of running for office in a long-shot riding for a long-shot party. He lives in Toronto with his wife, House of Anansi publisher Sarah MacLachlan. He has contributed to numerous publications in Britain, including The Guardian, Punch and The Daily Telegraph, and in Canada, the The Walrus, Maisonneuve, Saturday Night, the Toronto Star, and The Globe and Mail. Richler has written about the making of the film version of his father’s book Barney's Version, released in September 2010 with Paul Giamatti in the title role.
His latest book What We Talk About When We Talk About War examines Canada’s transition from a peacekeeping country to a “warrior” nation. Richler’s book This Is My Country, What’s Yours? A Literary Atlas of Canada was the winner of the 2007 British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-Fiction. He has been a literary columnist for the National Post and regularly contributes to the BBC World Service as well as many Canadian newspapers and magazines. He is the son of Canadian novelist Mordecai Richler. Richler was raised in Montreal, Canada and London, England. Noah Richler is a journalist and non-fiction writer who challenges the notions of what it means to be Canadian. With his signature wit and probing eye, Noah Richler's chronicle of running for office is insightful, brutally honest and devastatingly funny. The Candidate lays bare what goes on behind the slogans, canvassing and talking points, told from the perspective of a political outsider. In The Candidate, Richler recounts his time on the trail in sizzling detail and hilarious frankness, from door knocking in Little Jamaica to being internet-shamed by experienced opponents.
But as veteran NDP activists and social-media-savvy newbies joined his campaign, Richler found himself increasingly insulated from the stark reality that his campaign was flailing, imagining instead that he was headed to Parliament Hill. Recruited by the NDP to run in the bellwether riding of Toronto-St Paul's, he was handed $350 and told he would lose. One of those campaigns belonged to author, journalist and political neophyte Noah Richler. A comical and revealing account of what it's like to run for office with no political experience, little money and only a faint hope of winning, told first-hand by celebrated writer Noah Richler.ĭuring the 2015 federal election, approximately 1200 political campaigns were held across Canada.
0 kommentar(er)
