Richard A. Davies. Inventing Sam Slick: A Biography of Thomas Chandler Haliburton.(Book Review)

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Richard A. Davies. Inventing Sam Slick: A Biography of Thomas Chandler Haliburton. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005. 316 pp.; $60.00. ISBN: 0802050018.

Richard Davies admits that "a good portion" (xi) of his life was consumed by this long-awaited biography of the Nova Scotia writer, Thomas Chandler Haliburton. In fact, Davies has devoted his scholarly career to Haliburton studies. He is editor of the essay collection, On Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1979); The Letters of Thomas Chandler Haliburton (1988); and the proceedings of the 1996 Thomas Raddall ...

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