| A Whole Brass Band Contributor(s): Cameron, Anne (Author) |
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ISBN: 1550170759 ISBN-13: 9781550170757 Publisher: Harbour Publishing OUR PRICE: $19.76 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1992 Annotation: Jean Pritchard is a supermarket cashier, a news junkie and the mother of three: two teenagers who still live at home and another who speaks in italics and seems to have moved out. Then her kids start getting in fights for defending their Vietnamese neighbours, and her son takes up with "That Charlene," and her long-lost mother comes blasting out of the past (where Jean wishes she'd stayed) and prepares to move in, declaring that "anyone as can't hold up their end in a poker game is a person who's been subjected to child abuse." Jean concludes that if bullshit was music, "they'd be a whole brass band - and I'm the one playing the trombone." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 93112033 |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.9" W x 8.9" (1.10 lbs) 304 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Pacific Northwest |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Jean Pritchard is a supermarket cashier, a news junkie and the mother of three: two teenagers who still live at home and another who speaks in italics and seems to have moved out. Then her kids start getting in fights for defending their Vietnamese neighbours, and her son takes up with That Charlene, and her long-lost mother comes blasting out of the past (where Jean wishes she'd stayed) and prepares to move in, declaring that anyone as can't hold up their end in a poker game is a person who's been subjected to child abuse. Jean concludes that if bullshit was music, they'd be a whole brass band - and I'm the one playing the trombone. |
Contributor Bio(s): Cameron, Anne: - "Anne Cameron was born in Nanaimo, BC. She began writing at an early age, starting with theatre scripts and screenplays. In 1979, her film Dreamspeaker, directed by Claude Jutra, won seven Canadian Film Awards, including best script. After being published as a novel, Dreamspeaker went on to win the Gibson Award for Literature. She has published more than 30 books, including the underground classic Daughters of Copper Woman, its sequel, Dzelarhons, novels, stories, poems and legends - for adults and children. Her most recent novels are Family Resemblances, Hardscratch Row, and a new, revised edition of Daughters of Copper Woman. She lives in Tahsis, BC" |