Marian Engel's Notebooks Ah Mon Cahier Ecoute - Life Writing Series Author:Marian Engel Marian Engel emerged as a writer during that period in Canada when nationalism increased and "new feminism" dawned. Although she is recognized as a distinguished woman of letters, she has not been widely studied; consequently we know relatively little about her and her craft. The material collected in Marian Engel's Notebooks: "Ah, mon cah... more »ier, écoute..." is a major step in redressing that neglect. Extracts carefully chosen by Christl Verduyn from Marian Engel's fortynine notebooks -- notebooks Engel began in the late 1940s and which she maintained until her death in 1985 -- track Engel's creative development, illustrate her commitment to the craft of writing and document her growth as a major Canadian writer. The notebooks also portray Engel's surprising leaps of logic, her fascination with the bizarre, the eclecticism of her reading and the depth and variety of her thinking. Finally, they present moving documentation of a woman facing cancer and early death.« less