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EAN num: 9780002243803
ISBN number: 0002243806
Label: HarperCollins Publishing houses
Manufacturer: HarperCollins Publishing houses
Page Count: 186
Printing Date: 1995
Publishing house: HarperCollins Publishing houses
Sale Popularity Level: 1872364
Studio: HarperCollins Publishing houses
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Narrated by young Jamie O'Day, who is beginning to understand that, like his daddy says, 'every story is about sex or death, or sometimes both,'The Winter Helen Dropped Byis a story of growing up, of loss, of laughter and of characters both sexy and dead.
Helen is the young, pregnant Indian woman who drops into Jamie's life one freeze-the-balls-off-a-brass-monkey snow-storming night. It is her haunting presence, woven throughout Jamie's accounts of the spring he damn near drowned, the summer of the peculiar reconstituted wedding of Mrs.Beatrice Ann Stevenson and Mr.Earl J. Rasmussen, followed by the summer White Chaps murdered his wife, that makes this a funny, sad and wholly wonderful new novel.
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This tender story, graced with W.P. Kinsella's understated humour and compassion, is written through the eyes of a young boy. I don't really want to use the clique of 'coming-of-age', but I suppose it is in fact such a story. The author is brilliant in that he brings to us a simple tale of a boy and his family that speaks to the tenderest of hearts. The story left me with an unforgettable feeling that has touched me forever. It's the kind of book, I'd like to read once a year. W.P. Kinsella is one of Canada's treasures and I thank him for his story.
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