Downhill Chance: A Novel - Brossura

Morrissey, Donna

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0618189270 ISBN 13: 9780618189274

Casa editrice: HarperCollins, 2003

Riassunto

Two Newfoundland families struggling with the realities of the second World War find their friendships tested by fear and sorrow, from Prude Osmond's somber prediction in her tea leaves, to Job Gale's departure for military service, to Claire's need to start her life over elsewhere. Original.

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L'autore:

Donna Morrissey was born in The Beaches, a small village on the northwest coast of Newfoundland that had neither roads nor electricity until the 1960s a place not unlike Haire’s Hollow, which she depicts in Kit’s Law. When she was sixteen, Morrissey left The Beaches and struck out across Canada, working odd jobs from bartending to cooking in oil rig camps to processing fish in fish plants. She went on to earn a degree in social work at Memorial University in St. Johns. It was not until she was in her late thirties that Morrissey began writing short stories, at the urging of a friend, a Jungian analyst, who insisted she was a writer. Eventually she adapted her first two stories into screenplays, which both went on to win the Atlantic Film Festival Award; one aired recently on CBC. Kit’s Law is Morrissey’s first novel, the winner of the Canadian Booksellers Association First-Time Author of the Year Award and shortlisted for many prizes, including the Atlantic Fiction Award and the Chapters/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Morrissey lives in Halifax, Nova Scotia.

Product Description:

With "Kit's Law, " Morrissey established herself as a gifted storyteller. "Downhill Chance" is a captivating successor, set in a pair of fishing communities in Newfoundland during and after the Second World War. This is the story of two families joined by friendship but torn apart by fear and sorrows.

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• Editore: HarperCollins
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0618189270
• ISBN 13: 9780618189274
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 429