Author: Brian Moore
Publisher: London : Paladin Grafton Books
ISBN: 9780586087022
Category : Irish fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Luck of Ginger Coffey
Author: Brian Moore
Publisher: London : Paladin Grafton Books
ISBN: 9780586087022
Category : Irish fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher: London : Paladin Grafton Books
ISBN: 9780586087022
Category : Irish fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)
Author: Brian Moore
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007405901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
A timeless classic dealing with the complexity and hardships of relationships, addiction and faith.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007405901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
A timeless classic dealing with the complexity and hardships of relationships, addiction and faith.
The Great Victorian Collection
Author: Brian Moore
Publisher: London ; Toronto : Paladin Grafton Books
ISBN: 9780586087381
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
Publisher: London ; Toronto : Paladin Grafton Books
ISBN: 9780586087381
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 203
Book Description
The Statement
Author: Brian Moore
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0394281993
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
An innocuous white Peugeot makes its way around the monasteries of Southern France. No one would suspect its driver of being the target of commando hit-men and the gendarmerie's most wanted criminal sentenced twice to death in absentia for wartime crimes. For over forty years this fugitive has been sheltered by both the Catholic Church and the French Government. Now the net is closing in...
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0394281993
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
An innocuous white Peugeot makes its way around the monasteries of Southern France. No one would suspect its driver of being the target of commando hit-men and the gendarmerie's most wanted criminal sentenced twice to death in absentia for wartime crimes. For over forty years this fugitive has been sheltered by both the Catholic Church and the French Government. Now the net is closing in...
The Mangan Inheritance
Author: Brian Moore
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0006548334
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0006548334
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
An Answer from Limbo
Author: Brian Moore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Author: Mordecai Richler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Thin Ice
Author: Bruce McCall
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780679769590
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
His skates were too small. Or they didn't match. Or they were that ultimate humiliation for a boy trying to play hockey--girls' white figure skates. Add to young Bruce McCall's shabby equipment his pencil-thin wrists, weak ankles, and, as he puts it, "a fruit bat's metabolism with a tree sloth's reflexes," and you'll understand why he failed so dismally in the cold, rough world of neighborhood hockey in Toronto. Bruce's catastrophic career as a rink rat epitomizes the youth he recounts in this funny, moving, sometimes disturbing memoir. In fact, Thin Ice examines a boyhood so filled with failure and disappointment that the comedy and insight its author/survivor wrests from it--like his subsequent career as one of America's most admired humorists and illustrators--seem like miracles. Bruce McCall's father, T.C., was an inaccessible tyrant. Bruce's mother, Peg, drank to blunt the effect of her husband's rages and to dodge the duties of taking care of six children. Still, Bruce did know some moments of pleasure as a child, especially in the small town of Simcoe, before T.C. moved his family to the dreary outskirts of Toronto: The Second World War offered its awesome matériel and its heroic men, milk bottles grew top hats of cream, and grapes hung free for the stealing in Mrs. Klein's backyard. But his parents' demons took their toll on Bruce, and the move to Toronto set the stage for academic and social disasters: He flunked out of high school and took dead-end graphic-design jobs, all the while envying the full-color culture and high-octane energy of Canada's muscular neighbor to the south. That envy, combined with Bruce's passion for reading and drawing--one of the few positive bequests from T.C. and Peg McCall--became his refuge and then his salvation. His precocious reverence for The New Yorker magazine led him to invent entire comic worlds of artistic and literary creation. Ultimately, he read, wrote, and drew himself out of pennilessness and despair. Bruce McCall may not have been destined to glide around Madison Square Garden holding the Stanley Cup aloft, but as Thin Ice demonstrates, perseverance and talent can turn crummy ice skates--and even dashed hopes--into dreams come true.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780679769590
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
His skates were too small. Or they didn't match. Or they were that ultimate humiliation for a boy trying to play hockey--girls' white figure skates. Add to young Bruce McCall's shabby equipment his pencil-thin wrists, weak ankles, and, as he puts it, "a fruit bat's metabolism with a tree sloth's reflexes," and you'll understand why he failed so dismally in the cold, rough world of neighborhood hockey in Toronto. Bruce's catastrophic career as a rink rat epitomizes the youth he recounts in this funny, moving, sometimes disturbing memoir. In fact, Thin Ice examines a boyhood so filled with failure and disappointment that the comedy and insight its author/survivor wrests from it--like his subsequent career as one of America's most admired humorists and illustrators--seem like miracles. Bruce McCall's father, T.C., was an inaccessible tyrant. Bruce's mother, Peg, drank to blunt the effect of her husband's rages and to dodge the duties of taking care of six children. Still, Bruce did know some moments of pleasure as a child, especially in the small town of Simcoe, before T.C. moved his family to the dreary outskirts of Toronto: The Second World War offered its awesome matériel and its heroic men, milk bottles grew top hats of cream, and grapes hung free for the stealing in Mrs. Klein's backyard. But his parents' demons took their toll on Bruce, and the move to Toronto set the stage for academic and social disasters: He flunked out of high school and took dead-end graphic-design jobs, all the while envying the full-color culture and high-octane energy of Canada's muscular neighbor to the south. That envy, combined with Bruce's passion for reading and drawing--one of the few positive bequests from T.C. and Peg McCall--became his refuge and then his salvation. His precocious reverence for The New Yorker magazine led him to invent entire comic worlds of artistic and literary creation. Ultimately, he read, wrote, and drew himself out of pennilessness and despair. Bruce McCall may not have been destined to glide around Madison Square Garden holding the Stanley Cup aloft, but as Thin Ice demonstrates, perseverance and talent can turn crummy ice skates--and even dashed hopes--into dreams come true.
All We Left Behind
Author: Danielle R. Graham
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008387141
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
For fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz ‘Heart-wrenching. Emotional. A powerful story of wartime love and devotion’ Glynis Peters, author of The Secret Orphan A powerful and incredibly moving historical novel inspired by an untold story of the Second World War.
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008387141
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
For fans of The Tattooist of Auschwitz ‘Heart-wrenching. Emotional. A powerful story of wartime love and devotion’ Glynis Peters, author of The Secret Orphan A powerful and incredibly moving historical novel inspired by an untold story of the Second World War.
The Emperor of Ice-cream
Author: Brian Moore
Publisher: London : Toronto : Paladin Grafton Books
ISBN: 9780586087039
Category : Fiction in English - Canadian writers, 1945- - Texts
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Publisher: London : Toronto : Paladin Grafton Books
ISBN: 9780586087039
Category : Fiction in English - Canadian writers, 1945- - Texts
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description