Andrea Curtis

Into the Blue (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Award-winning journalist Andrea Curtis explores the shadows cast over her family by a century-old shipwreck and uncovers the tragedy, disaster and promise of early life on the Great Lakes. Every family has a story, passed down through generations. For Andrea Curtis that story is the wreck of the SS J.H. Jones. In 1906, the late-November swells of Georgian Bay erupt into a blinding storm, sinking the Jones and claiming the lives of all on board. Left in the wake is Captain Jim Crawford's one-year-old daughter, Eleanor, who faces a daunting future of poverty and isolation. But Eleanor emerges from her childhood determined to leave behind the restrictions of her small town. She plunges into the excitement of Jazz-era California and 1930s Montreal, struggling to become a poet and a writer. Almost a century later, Andrea knows her grandmother Eleanor only as a sophisticated, respected Montreal matriarch. Until, while researching Jim Crawford's role in the Jones tragedy, she discovers that Eleanor had a hidden past. Using family stories, archival research and fictionalized re-enactments, Andrea Curtis narrates her family's history, and that of the place they once called home. Into the Blue shimmers with Curtis's rich and reflective voice, recreating a little-known but formative time when Canadians persevered through unthinkable loss, violence and disaster, and brings to life a grand era of Great Lakes history. This is a worthy peer to such beloved memoirs as David Macfarlane's The Danger Tree and Roy MacGregor's A Life in the Bush.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House of Canada
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307368843
• Artikelnr.: 38191341

Autorenporträt

Andrea Curtis is a National Magazine Award winner and has worked as a magazine editor and writer for the past ten years. She was editor-in-chief of This Magazine and remains a contributing editor to Toronto Life and This. She lives in Toronto.

Inhaltsangabe

PART I Chapter 1
A Pirate on the Family Tree Chapter 2
The Indian Peninsula Chapter 3
Sawdust Town Chapter 4
The Turkey Trail Chapter 5
The Shipping News Chapter 6
The Wildcat Whistle Chapter 7
The Big Blow Chapter 8
Red Sky in the Morning PART II Chapter 9
All Hands Lost Chapter 10
The Saddest Calamity Chapter 11
The Summer People Chapter 12
The Locket Chapter 13
In a Strange Land Chapter 14
As Man and Wife Chapter 15
The Gall Chapter 16
“The deep waters of Georgian Bay never give up their dead” Image Credits Acknowledgements