Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
Island Sketchbook
- Publisher
- Acorn Press
- Initial publish date
- Jan 2004
- Category
- Short Stories (single author)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781894838092
- Publish Date
- Jan 2004
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
With characteristic warmth, generosity, and humour, Frank Ledwell seamlessly weaves personal memoir and communal folk wisdom into 60 prose sketches of Island characters, anecdotes, and traditions. The stories are based on real people or incidents; others are fictionalized, evoking the true, remembered landscape of Ledwell's childhood at St. Peter's Bay on the North Shore of Prince Edward Island, his experience as a student, teacher, and professor at St. Dunstan's University, and his later life as a professor, husband, and parent in rural Queen's County. The sketches also evoke the author's love of people and place and mark his point of view as that of an inveterate Islander.
About the author
Frank Ledwell is professor emeritus of English at the University of Prince Edward Island and one of the Island’s foremost poets and storytellers