Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Click for full-size.
Windflower
by Gabrielle Roy
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0771078366
- ISBN 13
- 9780771078361
- Seller
-
Calgary , Alberta, Canada
Payment Methods Accepted
About This Item
Toronto On: McClelland and Stewart, 1970 Mcclelland & Stewart 1970 Very Good Copy With Clean Crisp White Pages In Unclipped Dust Jacket Showing Price $5.95 Which Has Several Short Closed Tears To Edge And Is Yellowing A Bit. Book Has Slight Cant And Sunning To Top Edge. Translated From The French, This Is Roy's Story Of The Life Of An Inuit Woman With A Mixed Race Son.
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 collections, 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.
Reviews
(Log in or Create an Account first!)
Details
- Bookseller
- Sparkle Books
(CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005671
- Title
- Windflower
- Author
- Gabrielle Roy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0771078366
- ISBN 13
- 9780771078361
- Publisher
- McClelland and Stewart
- Place of Publication
- Toronto On
- Date Published
- 1970
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾
- Keywords
- FICTION CANADIAN INUIT
- Bookseller catalogs
- First Nations; Fiction;
Terms of Sale
Sparkle Books
30 day return guarantee, with full refund including shipping costs for up to 30 days after delivery if an item arrives misdescribed or damaged.
About the Seller
Sparkle Books
Biblio member since 2008
Calgary , Alberta
About Sparkle Books
I search out used books on principle to highlight their value, keep them circulating and out of the landfill (and just because I am compelled to tell people to "read this"!)
Glossary
Some terminology that may be used in this description includes:
This Book’s Categories
Collecting History of the Circus in America
Step right up! Take a look at the center ring, where you will see displayed the most amazing, most colorful series of history books that the world has ever seen! Right this way, folks…
Collecting Books on NYC
This gallery is dedicated to some of the best fiction and nonfiction portraying one of the greatest cities in the world. We Heart NYC! Enjoy browsing these books on New York City.
