Biography & Autobiography Personal Memoirs
Roy & Me
A Memoir and Then Some
- Publisher
- Athabasca University Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2010
- Category
- Personal Memoirs, Political
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781926836102
- Publish Date
- Oct 2010
- List Price
- $19.99
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Description
Best known for his service with the Special Air Service during the Second World War, Roy Farran served as a politician in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta for Premier Peter Lougheed. During his time as a soldier, Farran allegedly kidnapped and murdered a sixteen-year-old member of the Lehi group. Maurice Yacowar challenges genre and form in Roy & Me, a cross between memoir and fiction, truth and distortion. It is the exploration of Yacowar’s relationship with Roy Farran in a memoir that edges toward fiction by venturing into Farran’s thoughts.
About the author
Maurice Yacowar is professor emeritus in the Department of English at the University of Calgary. He has taught at Brock University, where he helped establish Canada’s first film studies program. He was also the founding editor of The Gauntlet, the University of Calgary’s student newspaper, and the author of Sopranos on the Couch: Analyzing Television’s Greatest Series, released in 2003.
