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This House is Condemned
By David Haskins
Shortlisted for the Kerry Schooley Award ? Hamilton Literary Awards
Shortlisted for the Hamilton Arts Council Literary Award for Non-fiction
This House is Condemned is equal parts elegy, portraiture and exploration of a life lived at the edge of Lake Ontario. In spare, moving prose ... Read more
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Shortlisted for the Kerry Schooley Award ? Hamilton Literary Awards
Shortlisted for the Hamilton Arts Council Literary Award for Non-fiction
This House is Condemned is equal parts elegy, portraiture and exploration of a life lived at the edge of Lake Ontario. In spare, moving prose David Haskins writes essays of immigrating to Canada and building his life as a teacher and writer. Currents of poetry run through the book, which is as touched with humour as it is with sadness. He writes of indestructible garden forks, rafts that bear him away unexpectedly and of the love that ebbs and flows throughout a life. This House is Condemned is a rich collection that picks the reader up and places them beside the author, walking along the shores of the lake.
David Haskins
David Haskins is the prize-winning author of This House Is Condemned, Reclamation, and over 150 published writings. At the age of eight, Haskins emigrated from post-war Britain to Ontario. For 36 years, six as Department Head, he taught high school English. Recently widowed, he has two sons, and drives a blaze orange 1970 MGB. He resides in Grimsby, ON.
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- Dimensions 176 pages, 5.78 x 8.55 x .45 in
- Published December 5, 2013
- Publisher Wolsak and Wynn Publishers Ltd.
- Category Literary Collections
- Keywords Essays , Personal Memoirs
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