Barry Grills:
Writer
Writer
Barry Grills
Watch the CBC television movie based on "Celine Dion: A New Day Dawns" by Barry Grills and Jim Brown.
The original bestselling unauthorized biography published by Quarry Music Books in 1997
The bestselling unauthorized biography published by Quarry Music Books, 1997
Coming from Freehand Books Fall 2012
Every Wolf's Howl: A Memoir
The story of a man in transition and the wolf-German Shepherd cross who served as his inspirational guide through a provocative mid-life transformation.
Excerpt from the Foreword:
"Most of what follows is true. A little of it is invention. I believe we construct the narrative of our lives out of an amalgam of fact and fiction; memory manipulates events to fit the pattern of our perceptions, and the objective truth of the things that happen to us is filtered through our subjective interpretations. We order our lives like stories, to give them form and allow ourselves to make some kind of sense out of them.
"Most of the events in this book happened in much the way they're described. A few of them probably didn't. Those liberties I have taken in omissions or shortcuts are intended to further the purpose of the story. There was an actual Lupus and an actual Mingus. There are and were the people who appear so anonymously in this book. And all of us continue to live within the same ambiguous society depicted in these pages, a society faltering its way through various ideological detours towards what I hope is some kind of purposeful civilization.
"Our lives ramble much more than stories. And this is just a story.
"Pretty much all of it happened, though. A little of it probably didn't."
Every Wolf's Howl: A Memoir
The story of a man in transition and the wolf-German Shepherd cross who served as his inspirational guide through a provocative mid-life transformation.
Among his many incredible qualities, Lupus was very photogenic.
Excerpt from the Foreword:
"Most of what follows is true. A little of it is invention. I believe we construct the narrative of our lives out of an amalgam of fact and fiction; memory manipulates events to fit the pattern of our perceptions, and the objective truth of the things that happen to us is filtered through our subjective interpretations. We order our lives like stories, to give them form and allow ourselves to make some kind of sense out of them.
"Most of the events in this book happened in much the way they're described. A few of them probably didn't. Those liberties I have taken in omissions or shortcuts are intended to further the purpose of the story. There was an actual Lupus and an actual Mingus. There are and were the people who appear so anonymously in this book. And all of us continue to live within the same ambiguous society depicted in these pages, a society faltering its way through various ideological detours towards what I hope is some kind of purposeful civilization.
"Our lives ramble much more than stories. And this is just a story.
"Pretty much all of it happened, though. A little of it probably didn't."
The unathorized Fox Music Books biography by Barry Grills and Jim Brown, 2004
The bestselling unauthorized biography published by Quarry Press, 1996
