Belonging: Home Away from Home
by Huggan, Isabel
- Used
- Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0676975380
- ISBN 13
- 9780676975383
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Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Paperback. Fine. Paperback Fine Ships From Canada Fine No dust jacket as issued Some writing on the second page, otherwise new Trade paperback (US) Glued binding 337 p Audience: General/trade Book Description The long-awaited new book from the acclaimed short story writer, author of The Elizabeth Stories and You Never Know Belonging is pure pleasure to read--entertaining, beautifully written, laced with gentle humour and perceptive insights Shifting from memoir to fiction, it focuses on the commonplace experiences underlying our lives that are the true basis for storytelling At the book s core is Isabel Huggan s old house in rural France, from where she contemplates the real meaning of home, and the mysterious manner in which memory gives substance to ordinary things around us With a light touch, she brings to life the people she has met in her travels from whom valuable lessons have been learned Isabel Huggan writes with the candour and compassion that made her earlier books so well loved, and here she s
Synopsis
Isabel Huggan grew up in small-town Ontario, an experience that shaped her prize-winning first book, The Elizabeth Stories , which established her as an original, talented writer. In 1987 her husband’s work took the family to Kenya and she has found herself living abroad ever since -- a situation reflected in You Never Know . Her work has been published in the United States, Great Britain, France, Spain, Holland and Italy. She still returns yearly to Canada from France. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Pine Tree Books (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 8959435159
- Title
- Belonging: Home Away from Home
- Author
- Huggan, Isabel
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0676975380
- ISBN 13
- 9780676975383
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- Westminster, Maryland, U.s.a.
- This edition first published
- 2004
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