Margaret Visser

Writing


			The Gift of Thanks The roots, persistence, and paradoxical meanings of a social ritual Harper Collins Canada, 2008 # ISBN-10: 0002007886 # ISBN-13: 978-0002007887 Reviews Order now from McNally Robinson Books Order now from Amazon.ca
			Beyond Fate: National Bestseller People today are often afflicted with a sense that they cannot change things for the better. They feel helpless, constrained, caught – in a word, fatalistic. Beyond Fate, Margaret Visser's 2002 CBC Massey Lectures, examines why. CBC Massey Lecture Series Anansi Press, 2002 208 pages ISBN 0-88784-6793 Also available as an audio cassette Reviews purchase online
			The Geometry of Love: #1 National Best Seller: Macleans Magazine. Best of Year: Globe and Mail, and Toronto Star. Nominated for the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction The Geometry of Love: Space, Time, Mystery and Meaning in an Ordinary Church, takes the reader on a journey through a small church in Rome named Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura (Saint Agnes outside the Walls) Visser chose to study the intricacies, history and architecture of this church because, as she explains, "it is a building that feels as if it has been on a very long journey out of the past, has altered and suffered and gathered accretions, and now it is here with us, still bearing its cargo of memories and still carrying out the purpose for which it was built." In Canada: Published with HarperFlamingo Canada ISBN 0-00-255739-8 In the United Kingdom: published with Penguin Books ISBN 0-86547-618-7 In the United States: published with Farrar Straus &Giroux ISBN 0-86547-618-7 reviews images: the photographs chapter by chapter that go with the book! Download pdf of reading guide from Harper Canada purchase online The Geometry of Love was made into an award-winning documentary film in 2006. Featuring Margaret Visser returning to the church, Sant'Agnese fuori le Mura, the film guides viewers through an expose of the church's hidden meanings. More information about this production can be found at Paul Carvalho Films
			The Way We Are: #1 National Best Seller In a collection of witty and insightful essays, Margaret Visser dissects the whos, the whats, and the wherefores of the way we live. She taps into our very modern fascination with our origins, eccentricities, and foibles. What constitutes an initiation rite in our society? Why are we so squeamish about eating offal? And what are we to make of the Easter Bunny (a male rodent that produces eggs)? In Canada: HarperPerennialCanada, HarperCollinsPublishersLtd. ISBN 0-00-639106-0 In the United Kingdom: Penguin Books Ltd. ISBN 0140253726 In the USA: Kodansha America, Inc. ISBN: 1568361866 reviews Download pdf of reading guide from Harper Canada purchase online
			The Rituals of Dinner: Winner of the International Association of Culinary Professionals Literary Food Writing Award and The Jane Grigson Award – a New York Times Notable book of the Year. Margaret Visser turns her acute eye and irresistible wit from the foods we eat to the way in which we eat them. The Rituals of Dinner explores our marvelously revealing, colourful and complex world at the table, illuminating it with examples from the ancient Greeks to modern yuppies, cannibalism and the Eucharist, formal dinners and picnics, and from the sublime to the ridiculous – depending on where you sit. In Canada: HarperPerennialCanada, HarperCollinsPublishersLtd. ISBN 0-00-639105-2 In the United Kingdom and USA: Viking Penguin ISBN: 0140170790 reviews purchase online
			Much Depends on Dinner: Named one of the best books of the year by both The New York Times and Publishers Weekly. Winner of Britain's Glenfiddich Prize for the Food Book of the Year. Much Depends on Dinner takes us on an amazing excursion through the history and mythology of an ordinary meal. Corn, chicken, lettuce, ice cream, and other familiar foods become far from ordinary in an account that is sometimes hilarious or frightening but always enlightening and entertaining. In Canada: HarperPerennialCanada, HarperCollinsPublishersLtd. ISBN 0-00-639104-4 In the USA: Trade Paperback, Grove/AtlanticInc. ISBN 0802136516 In the United Kingdom: Penguin Books Ltd. ISBN 0140118772 reviews purchase online
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