Saints of Big Harbour
by Lynn Coady | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0385659008 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0385659008 Global Overview for this book
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Journal Entry 1 by jenny-lou-who from not specified, not specified not specified on Wednesday, March 12, 2003
I just picked this up at the used bookstore and will read and release.
From the back cover: "Ambitions and wry, dark and often hilarious, Saints of Big Harbour chronicles a year in Guy Boucher's life, a year in which he first reaches for love and is met with a sluggish tumult of violence and rumour fuelled by malice, booze and small-town ennui. Guy is a fatherless Acadian teenager oppressed by the boredom and poverty of rural Nova Scotia, and dominated by his monstrous uncle, Isadore - alcoholic, capriciously violent and preternaturally vital. Isadore, who is permitted to board with Guy and his mother in exchange for the use of his pick-up truck, is determined to make a man out of Guy be forcing him to drink and play hockey. With heartbreaking insight leavened with laugh-out-loud wit, Saints of Big Harbour brilliantly unravels the stories that ensnare Guy."
From the back cover: "Ambitions and wry, dark and often hilarious, Saints of Big Harbour chronicles a year in Guy Boucher's life, a year in which he first reaches for love and is met with a sluggish tumult of violence and rumour fuelled by malice, booze and small-town ennui. Guy is a fatherless Acadian teenager oppressed by the boredom and poverty of rural Nova Scotia, and dominated by his monstrous uncle, Isadore - alcoholic, capriciously violent and preternaturally vital. Isadore, who is permitted to board with Guy and his mother in exchange for the use of his pick-up truck, is determined to make a man out of Guy be forcing him to drink and play hockey. With heartbreaking insight leavened with laugh-out-loud wit, Saints of Big Harbour brilliantly unravels the stories that ensnare Guy."
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l will leave this book in the Wee Free Library while on my lunchtime walk today.