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Nick Mount

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in Sault Ste Marie, Canada

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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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Nick Mount’s books

Average rating: 3.7 · 27 ratings · 3 reviews · 3 distinct works

	Civil Elegies by Dennis Lee, Nick Mount (Goodreads Author) (Illustrations) 3.81 avg rating — 83 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

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Nick Mount (Goodreads Author),

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Zsuzsi Gartner (Contributor),

Sean Michaels (Goodreads Author) (Contributor),

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Deirdre Dore (Goodreads Author) (Contributor),

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3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings

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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 23 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 has read Sabotage Art: Politics and Iconoclasm in Contemporary Latin America (International Library of Modern and Contemporary Art) by Sophie Halart	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 has read Negating the Image: Case Studies in Iconoclasm by Jeffrey Johnson	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 has read Iconoclasm and Text Destruction in the Ancient Near East and Beyond (Oriental Institute Seminars) by Natalie N. May	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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