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Author Johnston, Wayne, author.

Title Jennie's boy : a misfit childhood on an island of eccentrics / Wayne Johnston.

Publication Info. Misfit childhood on an island of eccentrics
Lebanon, New Hampsire : Steerforth Press, [2023]
©2023

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult New Materials  B JOHNSTON, WAYNE    DUE 03-28-24
 Portland Public Library - Adult Department  BIOG JOHNSTON, WAYNE    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  B-JOHNSTON, W.    Check Shelf
Description 307 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Original Version Originally published: Toronto, Canada : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, 2022, under title: Jennie's boy : a Newfoundland childhood.
Summary "Wayne Johnston's family -- his mother, father, and three brothers -- were always on the move. The year he turned eight, the most memorable year of an unusual childhood, they found themselves occupying a wreck of a house in the community his mother Jennie was from: Goulds, Newfoundland was not so much a place as a scattering of homes along an unpaved road. Everyone knew him as "Jennie's boy," and his tiny, ferocious mother felt judged for Wayne's sickly, skinny condition -- he had to spend much of his time in a bed on wheels that was moved from room to room. While his brothers went off to school, Wayne passed his days with his witty, eccentric maternal grandmother, Lucy, whose son Leonard had died at the age of seven and whose photo stood alongside a statue of the Blessed Virgin. Jennie's Boy recalls a boyhood full of pain, laughter, tenderness, and the kind of wit for which Newfoundlanders are known. By that wit, and by their love for each other -- so often expressed in the most unloving ways -- he, and they, survived" -- Provided by publisher.
Subject Johnston, Wayne.
Johnston, Wayne -- Childhood and youth.
Johnston, Wayne -- Family.
Authors, Canadian -- Newfoundland and Labrador -- Goulds -- Biography.
Goulds (N.L.) -- Biography.
Genre/Form Autobiographies.
ISBN 9781586423629 (paperback)
1586423622 (paperback)
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