His Whole Life

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His Whole Life

Wydawnictwo: maclehose_press

ISBN: 978-08-5705-544-6

ISBN bez myślników: 9780857055446

Typ okładki: Softcover

Liczba stron: 1

Data wydania: 2017-03-09

Język: angielski (Wielka Brytania)

His Whole Life

Wydawnictwo: maclehose_press

ISBN: 978-08-5705-546-0

ISBN bez myślników: 9780857055460

Typ okładki: Softcover

Liczba stron: 1

Data wydania: 2016-03-03

Język: angielski (Wielka Brytania)

His Whole Life

Wydawnictwo: maclehose_press

ISBN: 978-08-5705-543-9

ISBN bez myślników: 9780857055439

Typ okładki: Softcover

Liczba stron: 1

Data wydania: 2016-03-03

Język: angielski (Wielka Brytania)

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His Whole Life

Elizabeth Hay

Pierwsze wydanie: 2016-03-03

Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, His Whole Life takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home. At the outset ten-year-old Jim and his Canadian mother and American father are on a journey from New York City to a lake in eastern Ontario during the last hot days of August. What unfolds is a completely enveloping story that spans a few pivotal years of his youth. Moving from city to country, summer to winter, wellbeing to illness, the novel charts the deepening bond between mother and son even as the family comes apart. Set in the mid-1990s, when Quebec is on the verge of leaving Canada, this captivating novel is an unconventional coming of age story as only Elizabeth Hay could tell it. It draws readers in with its warmth, wisdom, its vivid sense of place, its searching honesty, and nuanced portrait of the lives of one family and those closest to it. Hay explores the mystery of how members of a family can hurt each other so deeply, and remember those hurts in such detail, yet find openings that shock them with love and forgiveness. This is vintage Elizabeth Hay at the height of her powers.