How I Spent My Summer Holidays |
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Author:
| Mitchell, W. O. |
Series title: | Douglas Gibson Bks. |
ISBN: | 978-0-7710-6110-3 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2000 |
Publisher: | McClelland & Stewart
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Imprint: | McClelland & Stewart |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $18.95 |
Book Description:
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When
How I Spent My Summer Holidays was first published in 1981 a Western reviewer wrote: “If
Who Has Seen the Wind told the story of a young boy’s coming to terms with death,
How I Spent My Summer Holidays tells of a young man’s attempt to come to terms with his own sexuality and that of the world around him.” The twelve-year-old young man is Hugh, and in small-town Saskatchewan it is the hot summer of 1924. When Hugh and his...
More DescriptionWhen How I Spent My Summer Holidays was first published in 1981 a Western reviewer wrote: “If Who Has Seen the Wind told the story of a young boy’s coming to terms with death, How I Spent My Summer Holidays tells of a young man’s attempt to come to terms with his own sexuality and that of the world around him.”
The twelve-year-old young man is Hugh, and in small-town Saskatchewan it is the hot summer of 1924. When Hugh and his friends dig a secret cave out on the Prairie, they soon find it occupied by an escaped patient from the mental hospital. Defying the adult world, the boys become involved with a former war hero and current rum-runner, King Motherwell, in sheltering and feeding the runaway. When passions aroused by sex explode into murder, Hugh leaves his boyhood behind him for ever.