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His whole life / Elizabeth Hay.

By: Publication details: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart, c2015.Description: 361 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780771038594
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • [Fic] 23
Summary: Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, this book takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home. At the outset 10-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. Set in the mid-1990s, when Quebec is on the verge of leaving Canada, this captivating novel is an unconventional coming of age story.
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Fiction Hanover Public Library Shelves FIC HAY (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31906001005157

Starting with something as simple as a boy who wants a dog, this book takes us into a richly intimate world where everything that matters to him is at risk: family, nature, home. At the outset 10-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. Set in the mid-1990s, when Quebec is on the verge of leaving Canada, this captivating novel is an unconventional coming of age story.

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