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Children of My Heart
by Roy, Gabrielle
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Good
- ISBN 10
- 0771078382
- ISBN 13
- 9780771078385
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto, ON: McClelland and Stewart, 1979. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. Translated by Alan Brown; Clean, tight, unmarked; light edge wear to dust jacket; spine of dust jacket lightly faded; price clipped; address stamp on ffep; otherwise very minimal wear; Set in the prairies in the 1930s, and rich with the author's own memories of her experiences there as a young school teacher, the book is a sensitive and compassionate story of impoverished immigrant children - children who will live in the mind of the reader, just as they continue to live in the author's heart.
Synopsis
Gabrielle Roy was born in St. Boniface, Manitoba, in 1909. Her parents were part of the large Quebec emigration to western Canada in the late nineteenth century. The youngest of eight children, she studied in a convent school for twelve years, then taught school herself, first in isolated Manitoba villages and later in St. Boniface. In 1937 Roy travelled to Europe to study drama, and during two years spent in London and Paris she began her writing career. The approaching war forced her to return to Canada, and she settled in Montreal. Roy’s first novel, The Tin Flute , ushered in a new era of realism in Quebec fiction with its compassionate depiction of a working-class family in Montreal’s Saint-Henri district. Her later fiction often turned for its inspiration to the Manitoba of her childhood and her teaching career. In 1947 Roy married Dr. Marcel Carbotte, and after a few years in France, they settled in Quebec City, which was to remain their home. Roy complemented her fiction with essays, reflective recollections, and three children’s books. Her many honours include three Governor General’s Awards, France’s Prix Fémina, and Quebec’s Prix David. Gabrielle Roy died in Quebec City, Quebec, in 1983. From the Paperback edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Werdz Quality Used Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 003994
- Title
- Children of My Heart
- Author
- Roy, Gabrielle
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0771078382
- ISBN 13
- 9780771078385
- Publisher
- McClelland and Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, ON
- Date Published
- 1979
- Keywords
- CANADIAN FICTION FRENCH FIRST EDITION
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