From Oral to Written

A popular approach to the subject, not an academic book. Tomson Highway is not an academic. He is an artist who uses artistic language.Readers are not obliged to read the whole volume. Each page is like an entry in an encyclopedia. All one has to do is leaf through the table of contents, choose an entry, and ignore all the rest or, rather, save it for another more propitious time.Each book description is a snapshot. Not only should the reader's curiosity be piqued to the point where he or she will want to buy the book seen in that snapshot, he will want to read more books written by the same author.Think of this book as "Tomson's Books," which would be this fascinating collection of writings by Native writers wherein this ridiculous Cree man from northern Manitoba chats warmly about and then, similar to Gilmour's Albums, the popular radio show that ran from 1957 to 1997 on CBC Radio hosted by the amiable Clyde Gilmour.