JJ Lee is the author of the memoir The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit, which was a finalist for the Governor-General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, the BC Book Prizes’ Hubert Evans Prize for Non-Fiction, and the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction/5(19). · JJ Lee is the author of The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit. It was shortlisted for the Governor-General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, and the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction/5. · The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit presents us with an unusual form: the menswear memoir. It offers not the story of a life in the male garment trade, nor of a long career spent cutting and sewing.
The Measure of a Man By JJ Lee McClelland Stewart pp; $ Article content. After his father's death in , Lee was "beckoned by memories" to re-evaluate his troubled father and. JJ Lee is the author of the memoir The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit, which was a finalist for the Governor-General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, the BC Book Prizes' Hubert Evans Prize for Non-Fiction, and the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction. JJ Lee is the author of The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit. It was shortlisted for the Governor-General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction, the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction, and the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Non-Fiction.
The Measure of a Man, by JJ Lee. Open this photo in gallery: JJ Lee is the menswear columnist for the Vancouver Sun and broadcasts a weekly fashion column for CBC Radio in Vancouver. REVIEWED BY. The Measure of A Man The Story of A Father, A Son, and A Suit (Book): Lee, J. J.: FINALIST - Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction () FINALIST - Governor General's Literary Award - Non-Fiction () FINALIST - BC Book Prize's Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize () A son's decision to alter his father's last surviving suit for himself is the launching point for this powerful book - part personal memoir, part social history of the man's suit - about fathers and sons, love and. The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit. Decem: It’s back in print! “An exquisite book.”. —Maclean’s. For years, journalist and amateur tailor JJ Lee tried to ignore the navy suit that hung at the back of his closet — his late father’s last suit.
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