Author: Various. Selected and Introduced by Stuart McLean. Published by Penguin Books Canada, Toronto, ON., 2008. Printed in Canada. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book. Size: 8.5 x 5.25 inch, 446 pages including notes.
WHEN WE WERE YOUNG, is a beautiful anthology of short stories, curated by Stuart McLean of Vinyl Cafe fame. Some chapters were short stories and some were chapters out of longer books. All authors were Canadian and the over-riding theme was youth, or reflections of youth...
"One story, for example, was Roch Carrier's The Hockey Sweater. It was soooo different to read that NOT in the picture book format. There was a chapter from Anne of Green Gables, which I loved because... Anne! There was short stories by Margaret Laurence and Alice Munro which were divine! A chapter from Atwood's Cat's Eye, which I have not read, and now I really want to because that chapter was fantastic (and held up in a stand-alone format). The last chapter was an author named Hugh Hood, which I was unfamiliar with, and honestly, it took me 3 days to get through his chapter. I do highly recommend this book, it is a really awesome synopsis of nostalgic Canadiana." -Reviewed by Cynthia on Goodreads
