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Macneil, Robert

Wordstruck: A Memoir

Viking, 1989

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Year of publication
1989
ISBN
0670818712
Place of printing
New York
Author
Macneil, Robert
Publishers
Viking
Edition
Book Club Edition
Keyword
BIOGRAPHY CANADIAN WRITERS ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Cover description
Fine
Binding description
H
Dust jacket
Yes
State of preservation
As New
Binding
Hardcover
Inscribed
No
First edition
No

Description

A winter's night in Halifax, Nova Scotia, half a century ago: a small boy, warm from his bath, dressed in striped flannel pajamas and a wool dressing gown, nestled among the cushions of a sofa, listens to his mother read aloud, keeping nothing back but the bearings of the island, and that only because there is treasure not yet lifted." Entranced, this small boy never forgot the spell of those words - and others - read to him as a child, words that seemed magical then, and now are clues to remembering his childhood, a trail along which he uncovers his earliest experiences." 230p. illus