Product Description

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #216720 in Books
• Published on: 2004-10-01
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .1 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Review
"'Grescoe weaves humour, anthropology and travelogue into an eclectic mix that makes The End of Elsewhere one of the most original travel books to come out in years. His perspective is fresh; his prose never dull or obvious' Globe and Mail; 'The End of Elsewhere is a powerful indictment of contemporary tourism and, more fundamentally, it's a cry against the West's exploitation of the Third World in the era of globalization' Quill & Quire; 'The greatest advantage of armchair travel is that you get to select your companions. Grescoe... could scarcely be a better guide' Vancouver Sun"

From the Back Cover
“Essential reading.”
–Globe and Mail

“Sheila Copps would have done better to give every household west of Ottawa one of these with the $20 million she squandered on flags.”
–Edmonton Journal

“Read this entertaining book.”
–Enroute

“Sacré Blues forms a GenXer’s guide to Quebec, one that’s witty, well-researched and topical…If Grescoe’s book were put on school reading lists, we’d all be richer for it.”
–Toronto Star

“A terrific study of contemporary Quebec.”
–Vancouver Sun

“Entirely entertaining, insightfully chatty and often delicious…. a revealing, gloves-off journey.” –Hour magazine

“A thorough, thoroughly entertaining Ski-Doo ride through [Quebec’s] economy, language, climate, and popular and spiritual culture…his is a book to be revisited.”
–Quill and Quire

“Grescoe know what it is to investigate a subject and nothing scares him: Sacré Blues unearths les differences in mores and morals, cuisine and language, immigration and ethnicity, economics and social policy…and much more with zest, precision and remarkable compactness. Grescoe is always interesting and accurate in his wide-angle descriptions of everything from the St-Trite rodeo to the corporate culture of Bombardier…Along the way, he catalogues everyone and everything of value that all of us ought to know about the culture of French Quebec at the beginning of the new century.”
–Globe and Mail

“Well-researched, well-written, funny in all the right places, opinionated and profound when it needs to be without pomposity, Grescoe’s book captures nicely a time-slice of what is truly a distinct society.”
–Halifax Daily News

“Reading his portrait of us, I thought to myself, Boy, I’m glad to live here! Why doesn’t everyone feel the way I do?...For the reader little accustomed to what is going on here, a primer like Grescoe’s is exactly what’s needed.”
–Montréal Gazette

“Quebec is a nice place to visit, and you would want to live there…Explaining how foreign cultures go about being distinct is Taras Grescoe’s forte…imagine an extended edition of the Lonely Planet television series, with the hip host being a resident, and you have the flavour of this book…If being well-written and informative are sufficient virtues, it will do well.”
–National Post

“[Sacré Blues] is informed by his extensive travels throughout the province, by [Grescoe’s] keen and observant eye and by a genuine thoughtfulness. Respectful of Quebeckers, but also delighting in some of the cheesier aspects of pop culture, Grescoe sets out to avoid the usual political discourse and explore the fertile tensions which have given Quebec its cultural identity.”
–Ottawa Xpress

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