Street Angel

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Beskrivning

Magie Dominic's first memoir, The Queen of Peace Room, was shortlisted for the Canadian Women's Studies Award, ForeWord magazine's Book of the Year Award, and the Judy Grahn Award. Told over an eight-day period, the book captured a lifetime of turbulent memories, documenting with skill Dominic's experiences of violence, incest, and rape. But her story wasn't finished. Street Angel opens to the voice of an eleven-year-old Dominic. She's growing up in Newfoundland. Her mother suffers from terrifying nighttime hallucinations. Her father's business is about to collapse. She layers the world she hears on radio and television onto her family, speaking in paratactic prose with a point-blank delivery. She finds relief only in the glamour of Hollywood films and the majesty of Newfoundland's wilderness. Revealing her life through flashbacks, humour, and her signature self-confidence, Dominic takes readers from 1950s Newfoundland to 1960s Pittsburgh, 1970s New York, and the end of the millennium in Toronto. Capturing the long days of childhood, this book questions how important those days are in shaping who we become as we age and time seems to speed up. With quick brush-stroke chapters Dominic chronicles sixty years of a complex, secretive family in this story about violence, adolescence, families, and forgiveness.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2014-07-30
Mått:152 x 229 x 10 mm
Vikt:270 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Life Writing
Antal sidor:162
Förlag:Wilfrid Laurier University Press
ISBN:9781771120265
Utmärkelser:Winner of Finalist for the ForeWord Magazine INDIEFAB Book of the Year in Autobiography and Memoir 2014

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Mer om författaren

Magie Dominic, Newfoundland writer and artist, has long been active in the peace movement. Her essays and poetry have been published in over fifty anthologies and journals in Canada, the United States, Italy, and India. Her artwork has been exhibited in Toronto and New York, including a presentation at the United Nations.

Recensioner i media

"I finished 'Street Angel'. Savoured it slowly, which is not always my way. Didn't want it to end. So much loss and pain and then again, such beauty, and isn't that the way of life, the mystery we can never quite understand. I was very very moved by it." -- Heather King, author of 'Parched: A Memoir', 'Redeemed: Stumbling toward God, Marginal Sanity, and the Peace that Passes all Understanding', and 'Shirt of Flame: A Year with St. Thérèse of Lisieux'

Innehållsförteckning

Street Angel by Magie DominicPart OneChapter One Saturday, Day OneChapter Two Sunday, Day TwoChapter Three Monday, Day ThreeChapter Four Tuesday, Day FourChapter Five Wednesday, Day FiveChapter Six Thursday, Day SixChapter Seven Friday, Day SevenChapter Eight Saturday, Day EightChapter Nine Sunday, Day NineChapter Ten After the HamletPart TwoChapter Eleven 1956, OctoberChapter Twelve Speaking in a Foreign LanguageChapter Thirteen 1960Chapter Fourteen Four Years After the HamletChapter Fifteen 22 November 1963Chapter Sixtten 1964, Early MorningChapter Seventeen End of the Seventies, AutumnChapter Eighteen Central Park, Start of the EightiesChapter Nineteen Manhattan, a Morning in JuneChapter Twenty Y2KChapter Twenty-one Final PrayerChapter Twenty-two After Everything That Ever HappenedAcknowledgementsGlossary of Newfoundland Terms