Machine without horses.
Machine without horses.
By
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Humphreys, Helen, 1961-
Publication Date
:
2018
Subject Term
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Canadian fiction.
Geographic Term
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Scotland -- Fiction.
Genre
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Biographical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Summary
:
What is an ordinary life worth? A seasoned writer stumbles across an obituary and imagination is sparked. The brief words of memoriam describe a woman who was both extraordinary--eccentric, revered in her field, a renowned expert--but also utterly ordinary. How does a writer, intrigued by all that isn't said, create a story? Capture an unknowable woman and all the secret passions, choices and compromises that make up a life? In Machine Without Horses, Helen Humphreys explores the real life and the imagined internal life of the famous and famously private salmon-fly dresser, Megan Boyd, a craftswoman who worked for sixty years out of a bare-bones cottage in a small village in the north of Scotland.
Language
:
English
ISBN
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9781443432498
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Gander (GGR) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC HUM | Checked In |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC HUM | Checked In |