Once upon an Effing Time - Couverture souple

Cram, Buffy

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1771623608 ISBN 13 : 9781771623605

Editeur : Douglas & McIntyre, 2024

Synopsis

A quirky, thrilling, darkly-funny page-turner that explores the fuzzy lines between sanity and insanity, magic and reality, love and duty.

It's 1969 and eight-year-old Elizabeth and her mother Margaret make a daring escape from their hard life in a factory town in Ontario's cheese belt. Stealing a school bus and slipping across the US border, they believe they are destined for greatness--and when Elizabeth discovers she can tell the fortunes of the desperate in roadside diners, she knows she's found their ticket to a better life in California.

But when strangers appear with the promises of utopia, Margaret drifts into the deranged world of a doomsday cult, and young Elizabeth has no choice but to follow, watching as her mother slips further into a life of apocalyptic fervor.

Thrilling, sharp, gutting, and uplifting, Once Upon an Effing Time is a story of 1970s counterculture, shifting realities, the unpredictable behavior of love, and the struggle to leave the past behind.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Buffy Cram is a writer of fiction and non-fiction, an entrepreneur and a farmer. Reviewing her book of stories, Radio Belly (2012), the Globe and Mail pronounced her "a whip-smart storyteller who aims to shake up our reading expectations in ways that delight." She has been a fiction finalist for the Western Magazine Awards, has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and has won a National Magazine Award. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from UBC and lives on Salt Spring Island, BC.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Douglas & McIntyre
• Date d'édition: 2024
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1771623608
• ISBN 13: 9781771623605
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible