She reveals how they’ve met and how things progressed in their marriage. The expedition is intertwined with the voice of George’s wife. (…) (John) Noel documented everything,” taking pictures in hopes of securing his own fame. “Each member of the expedition had his role to perform. He was trying to prove that the highest peak in the world was once at the bottom of the ocean.
The team included a naturalist Noel Odell, who was constantly staring at his feet in search for fossils. I enjoyed the team despite the fact that they didn’t seem to be best suited in characters, especially to be heading for such dangerous expedition. But what if they summit “his” mountain without him? After many sleepless nights, when he receives his final invitation to join the team, he doesn’t hesitate to make the decision. George Mallory, a British explorer, promised his wife that he was done. After two failed expeditions, “for good or ill it was his name that had become synonymous with Everest.” Now, a new team is preparing for the third time. It has already been praised widely – Joseph Boyden called it “simply breathtaking,” and Alison Pick said “Prepare to be dazzled.” Above All Things was named one of the five “Big Buzz” books at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2011 and will be published in the US and UK in early 2013.Įngland, 1924. Her first novel, Above All Things will be released in Canada on June 19, 2012. The full collection will be released by Wolsak and Wynn, Spring 2013. Her poetry and fiction have appeared in numerous quarterlies and magazines and received grants from local and national arts councils.Īn excerpt from her new poems Arguments with the Lake received second prize in the CBC Literary Awards and was called Macewanesque in scope, invokes in the reader a sense of timelessness and breathless wonder. In 2006 she was named the Poet Laureate of Lake Ontario by the Lake Ontario Waterkeeper and toured with the Tragically Hip’s Gord Downie to draw attention to environmental justice issues on the lake. Subsequently a performance of the poem appeared on the DVD of the tour - Escarpment Blues. In the spring of 2005 Rideout joined Sarah Harmer to read a commissioned poem on Harmer’s I Love the Escarpment Tour to draw attention to damage being done to the Niagara Escarpment by ongoing quarrying. In the fall of 2005 she released her first full-length book of poetry Delineation, exploring the lives and loves of comic book super-heroines, which was praised as a “tantalizing, harrowing read.” It has been featured on CBC Radio’s Bandwidth with Alan Neal and Definitely Not the Opera with Sook-Yin Lee. Tanis Rideout is a poet and writer living and working in Toronto.
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