Häftad, Engelska, 2013
Truth About Luck
What I Learned on My Road Trip with Grandma
Av Iain Reid
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Selected for The Globe 100 Books in 2013.In The Truth about Luck, Iain Reid, author of the highly popular coming-of-age memoir One Bird's Choice, accompanies his grandmother on a five-day vacation — which turns out to be a "staycation" at his apartment in Kingston. While the twenty-eight-year-old writer is at the beginning of his adult life, his ninety-two-year-old grandmother is nearing the end of hers. Between escorting his grandma to local attractions and restaurants, the two exchange memories and she begins to reveal details of her inspiring life story.Told with subtlety, humour, and heart, this delightful comic memoir reflects on family connections; how we experience adversity, the passage of time, and aging; and most importantly what it truly means to feel lucky.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 2013-05-09
- Mått: 133 x 203 x 13 mm
- Vikt: 283 g
- Format: Häftad
- Språk: Engelska
- Antal sidor: 288
- Förlag: House of Anansi Press Ltd ,Canada
- ISBN: 9781770892415
- Utmärkelser: Commended for Globe and Mail Top 100 Book 2013 (Canada)
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Iain Reid is the author of the critically acclaimed comic memoir One Bird's Choice, which won the CBC Bookie Award for Best Nonfiction Book. He lives in Kingston, Ontario.Follow Iain Reid on Twitter:http://www.twitter.com/reid_iain
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“... infinitely sweet. This is the sort of memoir that can only work if its main characters are compelling and likable; the nervous, self-deprecating Reid and his sassy, classy grandrna—”the LeBron James of old ladies born pre Depression”—are both. ...The Truth About Luck [is] a fun, light read.” — Chris Hanna, Maisonneuve
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