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In the Field
Claire Tacon
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Description for In the Field
Paperback. An inspiring first novel, In the Field tackles the social obstacles that overshadow interracial family life in a rural town. Num Pages: 300 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 133 x 23. Weight in Grams: 385.
Ellie Lucan's about as far as she can get from the screwed-up teenager she used to be. She's got a doctorate, her husband's a prominent academic, and their children are excelling at a Montessori. When she loses her teaching job, however, she packs up her sons to spend the summer in her hometown. She finds her mother suffering from dementia and the house in squalor, and she is forced to confront small town prejudice towards her biracial sons. As Ellie is drawn back into the community, the strain on her marriage intensifies and she is forced to ... Read more
Ellie Lucan's about as far as she can get from the screwed-up teenager she used to be. She's got a doctorate, her husband's a prominent academic, and their children are excelling at a Montessori. When she loses her teaching job, however, she packs up her sons to spend the summer in her hometown. She finds her mother suffering from dementia and the house in squalor, and she is forced to confront small town prejudice towards her biracial sons. As Ellie is drawn back into the community, the strain on her marriage intensifies and she is forced to ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Biblioasis Canada
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
Number of Pages
300
Place of Publication
Emeryville, Canada
ISBN
9781926845265
SKU
V9781926845265
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Claire Tacon
Claire Tacon's writing has been short-listed for the Bronwen Wallace Award, the CBC Literary Awards and the Playboy College Fiction Contest, and has appeared in The New Quarterly, sub-TERRAIN and Room. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of British Columbia and is a past fiction editor of PRISM international.
Reviews for In the Field
"a character-driven story, in which characters are shown warts and all, but in such a way that we wind up liking, or at least understanding, all of them."-Prairie Fire