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CAUGHT UP in the
Christmas gift idea
quandry? Why not try
something a bit more
cerebral than perfume
Or a new nine-iron? A
good book could be the
answer.

Of course finding a good
book, for varied tastes, is not
always as easy as it sounds.
Sometimes it pays to solicit
the advice of an expert such
as Dr. Peter Buitenhuis, a
professor of English at
Simon Fraser University, and
a former judge of the
governor-general’s annual
literary awards competition.

Buitenhuis suggests that
the following 10 books, cur-
rently available in the Lower
Mainland, would make good
choices:

“Although it has not been
a particularly good year tor
ficuhion, Emptre of the Sun, a
novel from Britain by JG
Ballard, 1s a good read It 1s
about the invasion. oft
Shangha by the Japanese in
1942, told trom the perspec
tive of a voung boy — a taut
and pripping yarn ""

Among the non-fiction

titles Buitenhuts says the
third volume of Fernand
Braudel’s ‘‘monumental

series’’ The Perspective of
the World Civilization and
Capitalism, 18th to 18th Cen-
tury, ‘‘goes on making social
and economic history live;”’
and the distinguished

historian of Nazi Germany,
William = Shirer,

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subject: The Nightmare
Years, 1930-1940: the oral
historian, Studs Terkel has
another winner, ‘‘The Good
War,’” an Oral History of
World War 11.

‘Talking of wars, Farley
Mowat chillingly documents
the war of mankind on mam-
mals and fish of the Atlantic
off the east coast of Canada
over the centuries since white
settement in The Sea of
Slaughter, less harrowing is
Sandra Gwyn’s engaging
study of Ottawa: The Private
Capttal) Ambition and Love
in the Age of Macdonald and
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Vancouver and of high quah-
ty: Raven Steals the Light, by
Bill Reid and Robert Br-
inghurst, a retelling of tra-
dional Haida tales, illustrated
by Reid’s superb drawings,
and Vancouver — the Way It
Was, by Michael Kluckner, a
fine collection of paintings
and archival photographs.

“A new book by
distinguished painter,
Hockney, Cameraworks,
features reproductions of
unusual and arresting photo-
collages, and, finally, a look
at our collective past in
Sometimes a Great Nation by
Edward Cavell, a photo-
album of Canada,
1850-1925

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