Tourist's Guide to Glengarry (A)
Autor Ian McGillisen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 oct 2002 – vârsta de la 14 până la 18 ani
This book is a tribute to a real neighbourhood at a special point in time -- working class north Edmonton on the cusp of the oil boom. McGillis has drawn partly on figures from his own late 60s, early 70s childhood, including a maverick substitute teacher with a predilection for Eastern philosophy, a nine-year-old champion of civil rights, a chain-smoking ten-year-old son of anti-war radicals and baseball immortal Roberto Clemente.
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ISBN-10: 0889842469
Pagini: 192
Dimensiuni: 142 x 226 x 17 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Porcupine's Quill
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If J.D. Salinger or Mark Twain had lived in Edmonton, they might have written "A Tourist's Guide to Glengarry." Prepare to slip into the mind of a nine-year-old. Prepare for a trip like Huckleberry Finn's, except here it is not a river that is travelled but a single day in the life of little Neil McDonald. Prepare for a story that is simple, deep, psychologically dead-on, minutely observed yet worldly -- and very funny.'
Notă biografică
Ian McGillis was born in Hull, Quebec, grew up in Edmonton, and now lives in Montreal, within hailing distance of Fairmount Bagels. He is a regular contributor to The Gazette and co-edits the Montreal Review of Books. His journalism has also appeared in The Globe and Mail and The National Post. A Tourist's Guide to Glengarry is his first novel.