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Annabel
Kathleen Winter
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Description for Annabel
Paperback. In 1968, in a remote part of Canada, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once. Only three people share the secret - the baby's parents and a trusted neighbour. Together the adults make a difficult decision: to go through surgery and raise the child as a boy named Wayne. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 126 x 195 x 30. Weight in Grams: 340.
In 1968, in a remote part of Canada, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once. Only three people share the secret - the baby's parents and a trusted neighbour. Together the adults make a difficult decision: to go through surgery and raise the child as a boy named Wayne.
But as Wayne grows up within the hyper-male hunting culture of his father, his shadow-self - a girl he thinks of as 'Annabel' - is never entirely extinguished, and indeed is secretly nurtured by the women ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Vintage
Number of pages
480
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Number of Pages
480
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780099555025
SKU
V9780099555025
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 4 to 8 working days
Ref
99-1
About Kathleen Winter
Kathleen Winter is the author of the international bestseller, Annabel, which was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction, the Giller Prize, the Governor General's Literary Award and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. Boundless has already been shortlisted for the prestigious Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize - the richest non-fiction prize in Canada. A long-time resident of St John's, ... Read more
Reviews for Annabel
An uplifting exploration of love, parenthood, and all that we become
Daily Mail
Remarkable... at once deeply moving and a powerful rallying cry
The Times
[A] powerful and important debut...about friendship, parental love and its limitations
Irish Times
This haunting, powerful story is about much more than the problems of being a hermaphrodite...This is ... Read more
Daily Mail
Remarkable... at once deeply moving and a powerful rallying cry
The Times
[A] powerful and important debut...about friendship, parental love and its limitations
Irish Times
This haunting, powerful story is about much more than the problems of being a hermaphrodite...This is ... Read more