What People Have Said:
“Charming, astute, witty, and insightful — about making art and culture in Canada, about one journey through the writing life — Line Breaks is foremost about the people one meets, and the person, or persons, one is, over a lifetime. A lovely book about, in effect, books by someone who knows intimately the form, and content, of the writerly heart.” — Charles Foran, author of Mordecai and Just Once, No More
“In Line Breaks, George Galt has given us a thoughtful, eloquent, honest insider’s account of what it meant to be a writer in this country in the last quarter of the twentieth century.” — Joe Kertes, award-winning author of The Afterlife of Stars and Last Impressions
“You’ll meet in these pages everyone from Al Purdy to Margaret Atwood, Peter Ustinov to Jonathan Miller, and David Frum to Robert Stone. Each character — including his parents and George himself —is rendered with a deft touch and a gimlet eye in this astute memoir.” — Gary Ross, former editor, Saturday Night magazine, and founding partner of the publishing house MW&R
On Line Breaks:
On Trailing Pythagoras:
“Galt’s descriptions are full of delightfully unexpected images and flights of fantasy… The extraordinary cast of characters provides constant entertainment.” — Books in Canada
“a fascinating account of travels in the Aegean, which is also a series of meditations and reflections upon Greek history and the Greek character.” — The Malahat Review
“abounds in unpretentious psychological and sociological insights, spiced with flashes of wit. It remains an engagingly readable record of a sensitive man’s quest for his own Greece.” — Ottawa Citizen
On Whistle Stop:
“funny and abrasively perceptive” — Winnipeg Free Press
“A fine book. There’s more here about the country than is to be had from a dozen magazine articles on provincial premiers, banking czars, and choreographers.” — Ottawa Citizen
“a splendid, spunky book” — Kingston Whig-Standard
On Scribes & Scoundrels
“a satisfying romp” — Quill & Quire
“highly entertaining” — Books in Canada
“satirizes Canadian magazine publishing and the travails of journalism to offer a comical look at the machinery behind the mass media.” — The Encyclopedia of Canadian Literature