Summary
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, summ…Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780857055446 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0857055445 |
| Author: | Elizabeth Hay |
| Publisher: | Quercus Publishing |
| Imprint: | MacLehose Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 320 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2017 |
| Weight: | 229g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 19mm |
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[She has an] evocative grace that brings to mind Annie Proulx - Washington Post
Hay creates enormous spaces with few words, and makes the reader party to the journey, listening, marvelling - Globe and MailAbout The Author
Elizabeth Hay
Elizabeth Hay is the bestselling, award-winning author of Late Nights on Air, which won the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Her other works include A Student of Weather (finalist for the Giller Prize and the Ottawa Book Award), Garbo Laughs (winner of the Ottawa Book Award and a finalist for the Governor General’s Award), and Small Change (stories). In 2002, she received the prestigious Marian Engel Award. Elizabeth Hay lives and writes in Ottawa.
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