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Title: |
Strong Hollow |
Search Result:
| By (author): |
Linda Little |
| ISBN10-13: |
0864923082 : 9780864923080 |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Size: |
215x139x21mm |
| Pages: |
280 |
| Weight: |
.357 Kg. |
| Published: |
Goose Lane Editions - May 2001 |
| List Price: |
15.99 Pounds Sterling |
| Availability: |
In Stock
Qty Available: 4 |
| Subjects: |
Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945) |
| Nineteen-year-old Jackson Bigney begins to change the day he hauls home the body of his father, found dead in a ditch after forty years of steady drinking. Jackson is the spitting image of his dad, a man who gave him nothing but beatings and a fatal taste for booze. Alone in his large, brawling family, Jackson is inarticulate, gentle, and a fine wood carver. For several drunken years, he earns a meagre living as a bootlegger. One summer, his heart opens to Ian, a fiddler, and for a few weeks he grasps the joy he has craved all his life. In the terrible wake of their affair, trying to recapture the inspiration of Ian's music, Jackson discovers that hollowness can be the source of power. |
| Awards / Prizes: |
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Cunard First Book Award
2002
Canada
Winner
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Dartmouth Book Award
2002
Canada
Short-listed
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Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award
2002
Canada
Short-listed
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Thomas Head Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize
2002
Canada
Short-listed
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