Jennie's boy : a Newfoundland childhood / Wayne Johnston.
Jennie's boy : a Newfoundland childhood / Wayne Johnston.
By
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Johnston, Wayne, 1958-
Publication Date
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2022
Publication Information
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Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada,
Physical Description
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307 p.
Subject Term
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Novelists, Canadian.
Novelists, Canadian -- 20th century -- Biography.
Geographic Term
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Newfoundland and Labrador -- Social life and customs.
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.
Goulds (N.L.)
Summary
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Consummate storyteller and bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender and at times extremely funny memoir of a Newfoundland boyhood few thought he would survive, including him. For six months between 1966 and 1967, Wayne Johnston and his family lived in a wreck of a house across from his grandparents in Goulds, Newfoundland. At seven, Wayne was sickly and skinny, unable to keep food down, plagued with insomnia and a relentless cough that no doctor could diagnose, though they had already removed his tonsils, adenoids and appendix. To the neighbours, he was known as 'Jennie's boy,' a backhanded salute to his tiny, ferocious mother, who felt judged for Wayne's condition at the same time as worried he might never grow up. Unable to go to school, Wayne spent his days with his witty, religious, deeply eccentric maternal grandmother, Lucy. During these six months of Wayne's childhood, he and Lucy faced two life-or-death crises, and only one of them lived to tell the tale. Jennie's Boy is Wayne's tribute to a family and a community that were simultaneously fiercely protective of him and fed up with having to make allowances for him. His boyhood was full of pain, yes, but also tenderness and Newfoundland wit.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9781039001664
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