Author: HODGINS, JACK
Title: Distance
Description: Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771041993. Signed by Author; Signed by the author on the title page. Book is in unread condition. DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 383 pages; Sonny Aalto, a restless middle-aged businessman, has spent his life running away from those closest to him. When his estranged, larger-than-life father, Timo, becomes too sick to care for himself, Sonny reluctantly returns to his childhood home of Vancouver Island, where he learns his father is not only dying but wants to die on his own terms – with Sonny’s help. But before facing the gravity of what’s ahead, the two embark on a journey to Australia, in search of a woman from their past, and over the course of the next few months their adventures will reveal difficult truths about fathers and sons, about families, about how we live and how we die – and about the good and bad things that distance can sometimes provide. Wise and irreverent, deeply moving, at times comic, and with vivid settings ranging from the frozen banks of Ottawa’s Rideau Canal to the lushness of Vancouver Island, from the bustle of downtown Sydney to the sun-baked desolation of the Queensland outback. Fine in Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 0771041993 Referendum Vancouver Island Australia Quebec Fiction::Canadian
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Title: Distance
Description: Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart, 2003. First Edition. Hardcover. ISBN: 0771041993. Signed by Author; Signed by the author on the title page. Book is in unread condition. DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 383 pages; Sonny Aalto, a restless middle-aged businessman, has spent his life running away from those closest to him. When his estranged, larger-than-life father, Timo, becomes too sick to care for himself, Sonny reluctantly returns to his childhood home of Vancouver Island, where he learns his father is not only dying but wants to die on his own terms – with Sonny’s help. But before facing the gravity of what’s ahead, the two embark on a journey to Australia, in search of a woman from their past, and over the course of the next few months their adventures will reveal difficult truths about fathers and sons, about families, about how we live and how we die – and about the good and bad things that distance can sometimes provide. Wise and irreverent, deeply moving, at times comic, and with vivid settings ranging from the frozen banks of Ottawa’s Rideau Canal to the lushness of Vancouver Island, from the bustle of downtown Sydney to the sun-baked desolation of the Queensland outback. Fine in Fine dust jacket .
Keywords: 0771041993 Referendum Vancouver Island Australia Quebec Fiction::Canadian
Price: US$ 20.00 Seller: Ainsworth Books
- Book number: 8369
- Book number: 8369
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