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Pastoral
Andre Alexis
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Description for Pastoral
paperback. A master novelist turns his hand to questions of faith - and talking sheep. Num Pages: 160 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 203 x 127 x 15. Weight in Grams: 257.
There were plans for an official welcome. It was to take place the following Sunday. But those who came to the rectory on Father Pennant's second day were the ones who could not resist seeing him sooner. Here was the man to whom they would confess the darkest things. It was important to feel him out. Mrs Young, for instance, after she had seen him eat a piece of her macaroni pie, quietly asked what he thought of adultery. Andre Alexis brings a modern sensibility and a new liveliness to an age-old genre, the pastoral. For his very ... Read more
There were plans for an official welcome. It was to take place the following Sunday. But those who came to the rectory on Father Pennant's second day were the ones who could not resist seeing him sooner. Here was the man to whom they would confess the darkest things. It was important to feel him out. Mrs Young, for instance, after she had seen him eat a piece of her macaroni pie, quietly asked what he thought of adultery. Andre Alexis brings a modern sensibility and a new liveliness to an age-old genre, the pastoral. For his very ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Coach House Books Canada
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781552452868
SKU
V9781552452868
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About Andre Alexis
Andre Alexis: Andre Alexis was born in Trinidad and grew up in Canada. His debut novel, Childhood, won the Books in Canada First Novel Award, the Trillium Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Giller Prize and the Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. His books include Asylum and Ingrid & the Wolf.
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