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''Sacré Blues: An Unsentimental Journey Through Quebec '' is a
non-fiction Non-fiction (or nonfiction) is any document or content (media), media content that attempts, in good faith, to convey information only about the real life, real world, rather than being grounded in imagination. Non-fiction typically aims to pre ...
book, written by
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Taras Grescoe, first published in
2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...
by Macfarlane Walter & Ross. In the book, the author narrates his candid recollections of moving to Quebec in 1996. In describing "the rituals, eccentricities and customs of his new home", Kathryn Wardropper, award administrator for the
Edna Staebler Award The Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction is an annual literary award recognizing the previous year's best creative nonfiction book with a "Canadian locale and/or significance" that is a Canadian writer's "first or second published book ...
said, "It may infuriate some, but it is a landmark book that portrays the challenges and opportunities for modern Quebec."Faculty of Arts, 2001, Edna Staebler Award
/span>, ''Wilfrid Laurier University'', Previous winners, Taras Grescoe, Retrieved 11/26/2012
Viswanathan, Padma
Sacré Blues
Quill & Quire, book review, Retrieved 11/26/2012


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List of Edna Staebler Award recipients The Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction is an annual literary award recognizing the previous year's best creative nonfiction book with a "Canadian locale and/or significance" that is a Canadian writer's "first or second published book o ...


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*Taras Grescoe
/span>, Home page, Retrieved 11/26/2012 {{DEFAULTSORT:Sacre Blues Canadian non-fiction books 2000 non-fiction books Books about Quebec