A Long Time Ago by Gib Van Ert
A Long Time Ago is a thoughtful, funny, and beautifully written story. scathingly hilarious and bang on. rewards the reader with an echo of the excitement, disappointment, anger, delight, and, ultimately, love, that Van Ert feels for the franchise. - Cory Doctorow, Boing Boing A Long Time Ago is a wonderful look back on growing up with Star Wars.Van Ert has] written a great little memoir about life as a boy with Star Wars and his trials as an adult with his boyhood fascination. - Wired.com Some time in the summer of 1977, sitting in the back seat of a borrowed station wagon at the only drive-in in town, Gib van Ert saw the first ninety minutes of a film that changed his world-and the world in general-forever. Then he fell asleep. So began a torrid thirty-five-year love affair with Star Wars, complete with infatuation, lust, devotion, jealousy, betrayal, despair, separation and reconciliation. In A Long Time Ago: Growing Up With And Out Of Star Wars, van Ert describes how Star Wars captivated his imagination as a boy, broke his heart as a young man, and is foisting itself upon him again today through fatherhood. At once a personal memoir and a reflection on the shared experience of a generation, A Long Time Ago explores Star Wars fandom with equal parts humour and thoughtfulness, nostalgia and regret.
Van Ert, Gib: -
Gib van Ert is a member of the British Columbia bar and practices civil litigation with Hunter Litigation Chambers in Vancouver. He holds a BA in history from McGill University, an MA in law from Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, and an LLM from the University of Toronto. He is a former law clerk to Madam Justice Prowse of the Court of Appeal for British Columbia and to Justices Gonthier and Fish of the Supreme Court of Canada. He is the co-author of International Human Rights Law (Irwin Law, 2004) and Using International Law in Canadian Courts (Irwin Law, 2008). He has published numerous articles on international and constitutional topics.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780988118003 |
| ISBN 10 | 0988118009 |
| Title | A Long Time Ago |
| Author | Gib Van Ert |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Soi-Disant Press |
| Year published | 2012-09-03 |
| Number of pages | 156 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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