The Handover

• The Handover is a finalist for the Governor General's Literary Award for nonfiction

In her controversial new book, Elaine Dewar reveals for the first time how McClelland & Stewartwas sold salami-style to Random House, a division of German media giant Bertelsmann; how smart businessmen and even smarter lawyers danced through the raindrops of the laws put into place to protect Canadian cultural institutions from foreign ownership while cultural bureaucrats looked the other way and why we should care. It is the story not just of the demise of the country's best independent publisher, it is about the threats, internal and otherwise, facing Canadian culture.The Handoveris more than just a CanLit How-Done-It it is essential reading for anyone interested in the telling of Canadian stories. (FromBiblioasis)

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