The Names of Things is a book about a man and a generation. Born to a working-class family in Toronto, David Helwig grew up in the haunted town of Niagara-on-the-Lake long before it became a fashionable summer destination for charter coaches of American tourists. David won a scholarship from General Motors to attend the University of Toronto and launched himself into theatrical productions at Hart House and mingled with such writers as John Robert Colombo, Henry Beissel, Edward Lacey, David Lewis Stein and Edna Paris.
After working in summer stock with young actors including Timothy Findley, Gordon Pinsent and Jackie Burroughs, he spent a couple of years in the suburbs of Birkenhead, then moved to Kingston where, in the 1960s he shared the world of little magazines with Tom Marshall and Michael Ondaatje and the world of prisons with the inmates he taught. In the 1970s he worked under John Hirsch at the CBC. He edited books for Oberon Press. He was part of the generation of young Canadian writers who believed they could achieve anything. He also shares a touching account of family life, of learning to be a father. Poetry, some of it never before published, catches the echoes of the life he lived. From childhood during the Second World War to becoming a grandfather at the millennium, this is the story of one man and his connections with the history of Canada in the latter part of the twentieth century.
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- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 818/.5409
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 22
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- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
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- 9781123672725 9780889842861
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- PR6058.E49
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- Z46 2006eb
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- 1 electronic text (299 p.)
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Table of Contents
- One 11
- Tw o 17
- Three 32
- Four 36
- Five 49
- Six 50
- Seven 59
- Eight 74
- Nine 88
- Ten 90
- Eleven 103
- Tw elve 117
- Thir teen 124
- Four teen 128
- Fifteen 129
- Sixteen 144
- Seventeen 158
- Eighteen 159
- Nineteen 163
- Tw enty 169
- Tw enty-one 198
- Tw enty-two 200
- Tw enty-three 211
- Tw enty-four 225
- Tw enty-five 227
- Tw enty-six 232
- Tw enty-seven 238
- Tw enty-eight 242
- Tw enty-nine 246
- Thir ty 256
- Thir ty-one 269
- Thir ty-two 288
- Thir ty-three 297
