Oliver's Twist Paperback by Craig Oliver

Product Details

• Publisher: Penguin Canada (2012-10-02)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 360 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780143177845
• Item Weight: 344.74 grams
• Dimensions: 8.24 x 5.23 x 0.99 cm

As chief parliamentary correspondent for CTV News, Craig Oliver is one of Canada’s most recognized and respected journalists, a newsman who has reported on the major political figures and news stories of our times with passion, insight, and bracing candour.

He brings those same qualities to this many-layered memoir of an extraordinary professional and personal life. Oliver has witnessed up close the follies, foibles, and occasional brilliance of the men and women who shaped our history over four decades.

At the same time, Oliver pursued a personal passion for Canada’s wilderness rivers. For thirty years, he and a close company of companions—from Tim Kotcheff and John Macfarlane to Eddie Goldenberg and Pierre Trudeau—paddled some of the most remote waters in western and northern Canada. Most surprising is the revelation that this accomplished television reporter has been legally blind for more than a decade.

Entertaining, zesty, and shrewd, Oliver’s Twist will leave readers begging for more.

About the Author

 

CRAIG OLIVER is currently Chief Parliamentary Correspondent for CTV and co-host of its weekly political affairs program Question Period. He has received the highest awards granted by his profession: the prestigious Charles Lynch Award; the Canadian Association of Broadcasters 2001 Gold Ribbon for Broadcast Excellence; the President’s Award for excellence in Canadian broadcast journalism from the Radio and Television News Directors Association; the Broadcast Hall of Fame award from the Canadian Association of Broadcasters; and two Gemini Awards. Since 1999, Oliver has been legally blind.