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Finalist for the 2012 City of Vancouver Book Award Curt Lang's life energetically parallels the evolving history of Vancouver from the hip subculture years to the electronic postmodern 1990s. An intellectual and a catalyst he knew Malcolm Lowry, Al Purdy, John Newlove, Fred Douglas. He was a poet, painter and in his thirties, he built boats and fished when the money in that industry was so good, the scene in Prince Rupert was like a Gold Rush. In his forties, he became involved in the high-tech industry, where he developed hardware and software for the railroad industry that today is used all over North America. The book includes a portfolio of 40 rare 1972 Vancouver street photographs.

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Letter to Vienna: If Claudia Cornwall is a scholar, she is also an eloquent writer. Letter from Vienna is a beautifully composed book in structure and in tone. Cornwall weaves a volume out of the strands of family stories, letters, poems, conversations and diary entries her own and those of others. - Susan Perren, Globe and Mail. Winner of the BC Book Award for Best Non-Fiction.

Letter to Vienna: If Claudia Cornwall is a scholar, she is also an eloquent writer. Letter from Vienna is a beautifully composed booka€ in structure and in tone. Cornwall weaves a volume out of the strands of family stories, letters, poems, conversations and diary entriesa€ her own and those of others. - Susan Perren, Globe and Mail. Winner of the BC Book Award for Best Non-Fiction.

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Claudia Cornwall's book, Letter from Vienna: A Daughter Uncovers her Family's Jewish Past, won the BC Book Prize for best non-fiction in 1996. Her most recent book is At the World's Edge: Curt Lang's Vancouver: 1937-1998, was a finalist for the 2012 City of Vancouver Book Award. She lives in North Vancouver.

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