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Street Angel (Life Writing)

Magie Dominic

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Description:Magie Dominic's first memoir," The Queen of Peace Room, " was shortlisted for the Canadian Women's Studies Award, "ForeWord" magazine's Book of the Year Award, and the Judy Grahn Award. Told over an eight-day period, the book captured a lifetime of turbulent memories, documenting with skill Dominic's experiences of violence, incest, and rape. But her story wasn't finished."Street Angel" opens to the voice of an eleven-year-old Dominic. She's growing up in Newfoundland. Her mother suffers from terrifying nighttime hallucinations. Her father's business is about to collapse. She layers the world she hears on radio and television onto her family, speaking in paratactic prose with a point-blank delivery. She finds relief only in the glamour of Hollywood films and the majesty of Newfoundland's wilderness.Revealing her life through flashbacks, humour, and her signature self-confidence, Dominic takes readers from 1950s Newfoundland to 1960s Pittsburgh, 1970s New York, and the end of the millennium in Toronto. Capturing the long days of childhood, this book questions how important those days are in shaping who we become as we age and time seems to speed up. With quick brush-stroke chapters Dominic chronicles sixty years of a complex, secretive family in this story about violence, adolescence, families, and forgiveness."Street Angel was shortlisted for INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards for Autobiography and Memoir (2014) and received the Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal for Canada-East - Best Regional Non-Fiction (2016)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Street Angel (Life Writing). To get started finding Street Angel (Life Writing), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Release: 2014

ISBN: 1771120266

Description: Magie Dominic's first memoir," The Queen of Peace Room, " was shortlisted for the Canadian Women's Studies Award, "ForeWord" magazine's Book of the Year Award, and the Judy Grahn Award. Told over an eight-day period, the book captured a lifetime of turbulent memories, documenting with skill Dominic's experiences of violence, incest, and rape. But her story wasn't finished."Street Angel" opens to the voice of an eleven-year-old Dominic. She's growing up in Newfoundland. Her mother suffers from terrifying nighttime hallucinations. Her father's business is about to collapse. She layers the world she hears on radio and television onto her family, speaking in paratactic prose with a point-blank delivery. She finds relief only in the glamour of Hollywood films and the majesty of Newfoundland's wilderness.Revealing her life through flashbacks, humour, and her signature self-confidence, Dominic takes readers from 1950s Newfoundland to 1960s Pittsburgh, 1970s New York, and the end of the millennium in Toronto. Capturing the long days of childhood, this book questions how important those days are in shaping who we become as we age and time seems to speed up. With quick brush-stroke chapters Dominic chronicles sixty years of a complex, secretive family in this story about violence, adolescence, families, and forgiveness."Street Angel was shortlisted for INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards for Autobiography and Memoir (2014) and received the Independent Publisher Book Awards Silver Medal for Canada-East - Best Regional Non-Fiction (2016)We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Street Angel (Life Writing). To get started finding Street Angel (Life Writing), you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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