The Luck of Ginger Coffey

The Luck of Ginger Coffey PDF Author: Brian Moore
Publisher: London : Paladin Grafton Books
ISBN: 9780586087022
Category : Irish fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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The Luck of Ginger Coffey

The Luck of Ginger Coffey PDF Author: Brian Moore
Publisher: London : Paladin Grafton Books
ISBN: 9780586087022
Category : Irish fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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The Luck of Ginger Coffey [sound Recording] : a Novel

The Luck of Ginger Coffey [sound Recording] : a Novel PDF Author: Brian Moore
Publisher: Crane Library
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (Harper Perennial Modern Classics)

The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) PDF Author: Brian Moore
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0007405901
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 274

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A timeless classic dealing with the complexity and hardships of relationships, addiction and faith.

The Great Victorian Collection

The Great Victorian Collection PDF Author: Brian Moore
Publisher: London ; Toronto : Paladin Grafton Books
ISBN: 9780586087381
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 203

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The Mangan Inheritance

The Mangan Inheritance PDF Author: Brian Moore
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0006548334
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 356

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The Statement

The Statement PDF Author: Brian Moore
Publisher: Vintage Canada
ISBN: 0394281993
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

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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...

An Answer from Limbo

An Answer from Limbo PDF Author: Brian Moore
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Generation X

Generation X PDF Author: Douglas Coupland
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 9780312054366
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Three twenty-something young adults, working at low-paying, no-future jobs, tell one another modern tales of love and death.

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz PDF Author: Mordecai Richler
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Jewish fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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Thin Ice

Thin Ice PDF Author: Bruce McCall
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 9780679769590
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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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.