Bill Conall

The Promised Land - a novel of Cape Breton (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

"How are you today, Thelma?" asked Linda.
"Good dear, good," she answered. "How's yourselfs?"
"We're good too," answered Linda. "Isn't it a beautiful day!"
"They're all good days if we're here to see them," answered the older woman with a smile.

Like the tides that have washed her shores forever, the story of Cape Breton has always been one of comings and goings. Native peoples came here while Europeans were still living in caves. In 1820, the fiery Presbyterian minister Norman MacLeod and his flock settled in the St. Ann's Bay area, and their presence is still felt in the communities that line the shore six generations after many of them left, bound this time for New Zealand.
The Promised Land begins with the arrival of a small truckload of hippies in 1970. Moving against the tide of young people leaving Cape Breton, they are eager to get back-to-the-land. They are also grubby, scrawny and broke, and in this regard are not unlike those original Scottish settlers who preceded them. There are stories of humour and pathos as the newcomers and the locals adjust to each other, culminating in the legendary hippies' ceilidh.
Four decades later, another new arrival crosses the Canso Causeway to begin her career as a medical doctor at a clinic in Baddeck. And on his first-ever trip outside the Boston States comes loud, brash, 78-year-old Gavin Mercer to visit on his niece's little farm in Indian Brook. Young Gummer MacInnes, grandson of one of the original hippies, forms a friendship with Black Angus MacDonald that results in a brief spark of worldwide fame for both of them.
Through the adventures of his characters, Bill Conall's story is told with humour, kindness, insight, and with the gentleness of touch that can only come from a writer who loves his subject.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bill Conall
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. März 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781301364244
• Artikelnr.: 69820034

Autorenporträt

Bill Conall grew up in Ontario and lived for several years each in Saskatoon and British Columbia, before moving to Cape Breton. He is an acoustic musician, composer and writer. Most of his songs are strongly visual, so it is not surprising that his performances also feature the presentation of bits of poetry, along with artfully-told original stories. To date, he has recorded two albums of original music.

Bill's most recent book, The Promised Land - a novel of Cape Breton, (Boularderie Island Press, 2013) won the 2014 Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour and the accompanying $15,000 prize. His first book, The Rock in the Water (Hidden Book Press, 2009), also made the Leacock Medal shortlist in 2010.
His short fiction has been published in several Canadian magazines. "Sparkle Orange" appeared in the anthology Shorelines (Kingfisher Publishing, 1990). More recently his short story The Iceberg Galley appeared in the anthology "The Men's Breakfast", (Breton Books, 2011). Two stories, Smooth Sailing and The Incredible Flight of Gopher Hamilton, appeared in the anthology "Thirteen Ways From Sunday:, (Boularderie Island Press, 2013). The Waiting Room appeared in Local Hero, Breton Books, 2015. A new short story collection, Sand Castles, will be published by Boularderie Island Press in the fall of 2018

Bill and Rosemary live on the back side of Murray Mountain in beautiful Cape Breton, Nova Scotia.