Burning Down the House (memoir)

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Burning Down the House:
Fighting Fires and Losing Myself
Burning Down the House book cover.jpg
First edition cover of Canadian release
Author Russell Wangersky
Subject Firefighting
Genre Non-fiction, memoir [1]
Publisher Thomas Allen Publishers
Publication date
April 2009
Publication placeCanada
Media typePrint (Hardcover & Paperback)
Pages271 pp.
ISBN 9780887623295

Burning Down the House: Fighting Fires and Losing Myself is a non-fiction memoir, written by Canadian writer Russell Wangersky, first published in April 2009 by Thomas Allen Publishers. In the book, the author chronicles his experiences as a volunteer firefighter in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland. [2]

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Awards and honours

Burning Down the House received the 2009 Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. [2]

References

  1. ↑ Goodreads, Burning Down the House , Book review, Retrieved 11/22/2012
  2. 1 2 Faculty of Arts, 2009, Edna Staebler Award Archived 2014-06-06 at Archive-It , Wilfrid Laurier University, Previous winners, Russell Wangersky, Retrieved 11/22/2012
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