Pluck : a memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist / Donna Morrissey.
Pluck : a memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist / Donna Morrissey.
By
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Morrissey, Donna, 1956-
Publication Date
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2021
Publication Information
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[S.I.] : Viking,
Physical Description
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305 p., [8] p, of plates : ill.
Subject Term
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Anxiety disorders.
Brothers.
Death -- Psychological aspects.
Novelists, Canadian -- Biography.
Geographic Term
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Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.
Summary
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Morrissey's account of her personal story could easily be a tragedy. Instead, she combines darkness and light, levity and sadness into her tale, as her indomitable spirit and humour sustain her. Morrissey's path takes her from the drudgery of being a grocery clerk (who occasionally enlivens her shift with recreational drugs) to western oilfields, to marriage and divorce and working in a fish-processing plant to support herself and her two young children. Throughout her struggles, she nourishes a love of learning and language. Morrissey layers her account of her life with stories of those who came before her, a breed rarely seen in the modern world. It centers around iron-willed women: mothers and daughters, wives, sisters, teachers and mentors who find the support, the wind for their wings, outside the bounds given to them by nature. And it is a mysterious older woman she meets in Halifax who eventually unleashes the writer that Morrissey is destined to become.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9780735239197
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