Author: HODGINS, JACK
Title: The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne: Or a word or two on those Port Annie miracles
Description: Toronto, Macmillan of Canada. 1979, 1st US Edition. (ISBN: 077051717X) Hardcover. Book, When an unknown woman steps off a beached Peruvian freighter and walks into the Vancouver Island town of Port Annie, nothing can ever be quite the same. Stalwart citizens, tired of their milltown routine, grasp at a fresh subject for gossip. Others are suddenly prepared to make momentous decisions. But eccentric old Joseph Bourne, who knows that the endless rain is going to bring a landslide down on the town, is certain that the mysterious woman has come looking for him.. A comic masterpiece is filled with social satire, and it is also filled with love, which permits this ordinary town to recollect the past with affection, and to begin its history again.271p. Winner of the 1979 Governor General's Award for Fiction. Fine/Very Good, Slight Chips.

Keywords: 077051717x Fiction Canadian