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a Albert Camus, Alife

FROM his impoverished
reria to the lotty
heights of being one of the
youngest ever Nobel Prize
winners to his untimely
death ina car accident in
1960, this is the complete

story of Albert Camus.
in turn a journalist,
vight, actor, philoso-
pher and author. He was
both admired and criticized
in cach incarnation, but in
Lnrinely as it
was — he was mourned and
everssince missed, and

admired

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Tone ! famus had often
told his friends there was
nothing more scandalous
than the death of a child,
and nothing more absurd than to die in a car accident.”
And nothing more uselessly absorbing than the day-to-day
sparring sessions that come with being one of a country’s most

popular thinkers and opinion makers. His refuge came in the
form of female companionship — of which there was no short-

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which in ture also led ta more problems.

All of these added up to something many today would call
stress. but in the “40s and °S0s it may very well have been
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Legends of Autumn: The @ Slory Years of the Canadian Football League
m AL one time, the Canadian
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cousin to the south in bork talent
and crowds.
atone ume, U.S. college stars
looked north vo the CFL for the
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here.
West Vancouver newspaperman
Denny Boyd and Bowen Island
writer Brian Serivener have
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70,
Wonderful stories and great photos make this 170-page hard-
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(Greystone Books. $29.95).
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Applc, The inside Story of
Intrigue, E jomania and
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the muddy
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Although the atest
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software powerhouse
Microsoft did not make the
cut, everything else up to
that point did.

Wall Street Journal tech-
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interviewed more than [50
people and then shaped their
callective tale into a 463-
page book about a sinking
ship.

Is there hope for the
future? Without hope, there
is no future.

(Random House. $38.50)

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