Surveying his own conflicted, multi-cultural life from a Bombay boyhood,
immigration to Canada, and his re-invention as a literary and theatre
critic, poet, and editor who has learned to understand life's blessings
and wounds, Keith Garebian's autobiography is an act of memory at the
service of a changing self. Using vignettes, letters, historical
surveys, meditations, and existential summations, Pieces of My Self
shows Garebian's trauma, fury, condemnation, ardour, melancholy, satire,
and self-understanding. Figures of Laurence Olivier, Vanessa Redgrave,
William Hutt, Irving Layton, Hugh Hood, John Metcalf, Henry Beissel,
V.S. Naipaul, and many others pass through this life of a restlessly
critical and self-critical author.