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Nick Mount

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Nick Mount is a professor in the University of Toronto’s Department of English, where he teaches Canadian literature and whatever else they tell him to do. He is a bi-coastal Canadian, mostly raised and educated in British Columbia and Nova Scotia and now living and working in the black hole at the country’s centre. He taught Canada’s largest English class for almost twenty years, to over 9,000 students.

Nick's first book won the Gabrielle Roy Prize for the best book in Canadian literary criticism; his latest, Arrival: The Story of CanLit, was a national bestseller. He is currently writing the first international history of vandalism (!) for Penguin Random House in Canada and Simon & Shuster in the US, represented by Jim Levine at Levine Gr ...more

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	Arrival: The Story of CanLit 3.89 avg rating — 104 ratings — published 2017 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Civil Elegies by Dennis Lee, Nick Mount (Goodreads Author) (Illustrations) 3.83 avg rating — 84 ratings — published 1972 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	When Canadian Literature Moved to New York (Studies in Book and Print Culture) 3.86 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2005 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Storie by Nick Mount (Goodreads Author), Mona Awad (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Kevin Hardcastle (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vandals: A History of Destruction from Antiquity to Tomorrow 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Nick Mount rated a book it was amazing Small Rain by Garth Greenwell (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
A novel told by a gay poet hospitalized in Iowa City during COVID’s first summer for an acutely painful and by novel’s end still mysterious tear in his aorta. It’s about illness, struggling hospitals, and the start of America’s decline into madness. ...more
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Nick Mount rated a book it was amazing Mother of God: A Novel by Sara Peters	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Mother of god, what a book. It’s horrifying, beautiful, and at times very, very funny. Without giving away too much, Marlene pronounced Mar-LANE-UH returns from Vancouver to her mother’s home in rural Nova Scotia. Marlene is traumatized by what her m ...more
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Nick Mount rated a book it was amazing The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine by Ilan Pappé	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
Great book. Just to add for those without access to academic reviews, I read about a dozen of them: almost all very positive if in journals and by people you would expect to sympathize with it. The book has been fiercely criticized by some Israeli hi ...more
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Nick Mount and 25 other people liked Yasmeen's review of The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches: "Here's how the progression of my reading went: 1st couple of pages: What is going on and why is grammar not a thing. A little further in: Okay no this is cool and weird and a little creepy I like it Near the end of the first half: THIS IS PRETTY and I n" Read more of this review »
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Nick Mount rated a book it was amazing Dayspring by Anthony Oliveira (Goodreads Author)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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