Resurrection of Joseph Bourne: Or, A Word or Two on Those Port Annie Miracles

Resurrection of Joseph Bourne: Or, A Word or Two on Those Port Annie Miracles

by Jack Hodgins
Resurrection of Joseph Bourne: Or, A Word or Two on Those Port Annie Miracles

Resurrection of Joseph Bourne: Or, A Word or Two on Those Port Annie Miracles

by Jack Hodgins

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Overview

In this new edition of Jack Hodgins’ Governor General–winning novel (for 1979), the reader is taken into the everyday eccentricities of life in Port Annie on the west coast of Vancouver Island, a town that keeps slipping into the ocean and whose people have long been in a continuous slumber. Everything changes, however, when a beautiful sea nymph is washed ashore from a stranded freighter. People begin grasping at new possibilities. There’s the giant cactus the mayor installs to attract the tourist trade, the personal life of Jenny Chambers, ex-stripper, is exposed, and the Kick-and-Kill beer parlour becomes home to wild events. But there is also Joseph Bourne himself, once a world-renowned poet and healer, who has become a bitter recluse. Bourne knows that the endless rain is going to bring a landslide down on the town, and he fears that the mysterious woman has come looking for him. In the end he dies and is resurrected – an experience that allows him to regain his healing powers so that he can work his magic on the townsfolk. With his energetic style and his comic characterization, Hodgins combines the ordinary with the wondrous.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781553802402
Publisher: Ronsdale Press
Publication date: 03/01/2013
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 300
File size: 880 KB

About the Author

Jack Hodgins' fiction has won the Governor General's Award, the Canada-Australia Prize, the Commonwealth Prize (Canada and the Caribbean) and the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize, amongst others. He has given readings, talks, and workshops in Australia, New Zea
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