Don Gillmor

The Desire of Every Living Thing (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

At the age of eighty, Don Gillmor's grandmother let slip the defining secret of her life: her twin sister Jean was not her twin, but her aunt, and her family had emigrated from Scotland to Winnipeg to escape the stigma of her illegitimacy. That revelation set Gillmor off on what seemed at first like the most personal of quests: to track down his ancestors. The Desire of Every Living Thing is also the story of the New World, the story of Winnipeg, the story of this country. Both an evocative family memoir and a brilliant feat of historical imagination, the book's most moving theme is how the discarded past haunts and shapes our lives without us even noticing.

---

Dieser Download kann aus rechtlichen Gründen nur mit Rechnungsadresse in A, B, BG, CZ, D, DK, EW, E, FIN, F, GR, HR, H, I, LT, L, LR, NL, PL, P, R, S, SLO, SK ausgeliefert werden.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Random House of Canada
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307363657
• Artikelnr.: 39204049

Autorenporträt

Don Gillmor is the author of four children's books, including The Fabulous Song (1995), which was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award and won the Mr. Christie and Storytelling World awards. His journalism and criticism have appeared in Saturday Night, Rolling Stone, GQ and numerous other publications. He lives in Toronto with his wife and daughter.