A Very Capable Life: The Autobiography of Zarah Petri

by John Leigh Walters

Overview

Written in his mother’s unique voice, John Leigh Walters pushes the boundaries of memoir in A Very Capable Life, the extraordinary journey of a seemingly ordinary woman.Zarah Petri was a child when her family left Hungary to establish a new life in Canada in the 1920s. With courage and innovation, Zarah and her family survived the Depression?even if it meant breaking the law to do so. In celebrating Zarah Petri, A Very Capable Life pays homage to all “ordinary” women of the early twentieth century who challenged society’s conventions for the sake of survival.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781897425428
Publisher:	Athabasca University Press
Publication date:	12/01/2009
Series:	Our Lives: Diary, Memoir, and Letters
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

John Leigh Walters spent a lifetime writing, producing, and hosting television programs in both the United States and Canada. Notably, with Metropolitan Opera star Vivienne Della Chiesa, he co-hosted a daily television talk show on WLW-TV in Cincinnati, Ohio. More recently, he produced and hosted interview programs on the CTV outlet in the Waterloo, ON. He lives in Kitchener, Ontario.
John Leigh Walters spent a lifetime writing, producing, and hosting television programs in both the United States and Canada. Notably, with Metropolitan Opera star Vivienne Della Chiesa, he co-hosted a daily television talk show on WLW-TV in Cincinnati, Ohio. More recently he produced and hosted interview programs on the CTV outlet in the Waterloo, ON. He lives in Kitchener, ON.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Preface

A Very Capable Life

Post Script
Afterword

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

"Zarah's free spirit and sharp intelligence animate the narrative at every turn, making the kind of story that once begun, a reader is loath to leave unfinished."—Tamara Palmer Seiler, University of Calgary

Tamara Palmer Seiler

Zarah's free spirit and sharp intelligence animate the narrative at every turn, making the kind of story that once begun, a reader is loath to leave unfinished.