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Fiction Short Stories (single Author)

John R and Son

by (author) Tessie Gillis

Publisher
Breton Books
Initial publish date
Jan 1999
Category
Short Stories (single author)
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781895415315
    Publish Date
    Jan 1999
    List Price
    $14.95

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Description

No one has ever written about Cape Breton quite like this! A rich daring short novel, plus 5 stories. A troubling, brutal, and compassionate book that is a riveting classic.

About the author

Born in Montana in 1910, Tessie Gillis in the 1950s came with her husband Joe to Rear Glencoe in Inverness County to live the hard, satisfying life of rural Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Illness finally gave her the opportunity to write, and her friend and editor Evelyn Garbary helped her bloom into one of Cape Breton's finest writers. Daring to write about the darker elements of rural life, Tessie Gillis has emerged as the Godmother of Cape Breton Fiction. She died in 1972.

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