“It’s an autobiography! If I tell you what’s in it you won’t read the book.” — Claire Drainie Taylor
Or would you? Maybe you’d be intrigued by the progression of a life begun as an unexceptional little girl born to a middle-class Jewish Canadian couple in a small prairie town who, at age sixteen, married a refined Englishman, and survived the Great Depression, partly alone in a shack in the woods of Vancouver Island. Or how, only a few months after returning to Vancouver, with no training and minimal education, this same young woman walked on stage at one of Canada’s finest old theatres, and went on to a successful thirty-year career as an actress and radio dialogue writer.
Having been compelled by her family to write her memoir, it wasn’t until she’d finished and reread her manuscript that Claire Drainie Taylor realized what an extraordinary life she’d led. Her descriptions of the many fascinating incidents that make up her story, and how she dealt with them, revealed herself to herself in a way that illuminates what she calls “The Surprise of My Life.”
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 791/.092
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 21
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 0889203024 9780889208285
- LCCN
- PN2308.T39
- LCCN Item number
- A3 1998eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBNVSL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xi, 268 p., [19] p. of plates)
- Published in
- Canada
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)jme00326965 (OCoLC)45731205 (CaOOCEL)402595
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaBNVSL
Table of Contents
- Contents 6
- Foreword 10
- Acknowledgements 12
- Author's Note 14
- The Beginning 16
- Swift Current 24
- And All the Other Places 54
- Vancouver—First Marriage 64
- Rock Bay 86
- John Drainie Makes an Entrance 100
- Life with John 136
- And the Children Came ... and Came ... and Came 184
- Interlude 243
- The Final Stretch 247
