Childhood - André Alexis

Category: General Fiction, Literature
Language: English
Keywords: Adult Canada Contemporary Cultural Fiction Literary Fiction

Written by André Alexis
Read by Yanna McIntosh
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps

General Information
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Title: Childhood
Subtitle: A Novel
Author: Andre Alexis
Narrator: Yanna McIntosh
Audiobook Copyright: 2021
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Duration: 07:53:47
ISBN: 9780771006784
Subjects: Fiction, Literature

File Information
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Media Format: MP3
Total Files: 8
Total Size: 216 MB
Bitrate: 64 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Channels: Stereo

Book Description
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Uniquely imagined and vividly evoked, André Alexis’s prize-winning
novel chronicles the childhood – or perhaps the loss of childhood – of
Thomas MacMillan, who sets out to piece together the early years of
his life. Raised in a Southern Ontario town in the ’50s and ’60s,
Thomas is abandoned to the care of his eccentric Trinidadian
grandmother. Then, at ten, his mother, Katarina, reclaims him, taking
him to Ottawa and to the once-splendid Victorian home of Henry Wing, a
gentle conjurer whose love of science and the imagination becomes an
important legacy. But is he Thomas’s father? Moving and wryly
humorous, Childhood tells the story of a man’s quest for what is lost,
bringing him closer to the truth about himself.