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Childhood : a novel

Author: André Alexis
Publisher: New York : Henry Holt, 1998.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st American edView all editions and formats
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Until the age of 10, Thomas Macmillan has a sad childhood, abandoned by his mother and living with his grandmother. But when the grandmother dies, the mother takes him to stay with a boyfriend, an eccentric intellectual who introduces Macmillan to the world of the mind and his childhood becomes a joy. A first novel by a Trinidadian-Canadian.
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Genre/Form: Domestic fiction
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: André Alexis
ISBN: 0805059814 9780805059816
OCLC Number: 38521456
Description: 259 p. ; 22 cm.
Responsibility: André Alexis.

Abstract:

Until the age of 10, Thomas Macmillan has a sad childhood, abandoned by his mother and living with his grandmother. But when the grandmother dies, the mother takes him to stay with a boyfriend, an eccentric intellectual who introduces Macmillan to the world of the mind and his childhood becomes a joy. A first novel by a Trinidadian-Canadian.

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