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Kit's Law

by Morrissey, Donna

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  • Paperback
  • first
Condition
Fine.
ISBN 10
0670886017
ISBN 13
9780670886012
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About This Item

Toronto: Viking / Penguin, 1999. Cover with flaps. Canadian author's first book (a bestseller), a novel which takes place in an isolated outport in Newfoundland in the fifties. 383 pages.. First Edition, First Printing. Trade Paperback Original. Fine..

Synopsis

In this powerful debut novel from one of the most gifted storytellers to emerge from Canada since Carol Shields, we find “all the old-fashioned virtues: a vivid sense of place, an intricate and suspenseful plot, and a feisty heroine whom we can’t help rooting for on every page” (Margot Livesey). Kit Pitman is fourteen and lives in a ramshackle cottage on the outer banks of Newfoundland, where isolation is all she knows. The only visitors are fogbound fishermen and an occasional young man brought ashore to keep the bloodlines clean. But Kit’s isolation is compounded by the mystery that surrounds her family and her illegitimate birth. Her mother, Josie, is mentally retarded and often runs wild among the clapboard houses that dot the shore. Meanwhile, her grandmother Lizzie staunchly guards them both from the disapproving glances pious townsfolk cast their way. But when Lizzie dies suddenly, Kit and her childlike mother are left vulnerable to life’s harsh realities and to unexpected dangers that repeatedly threaten to break them apart. A wrenching story ensues, as Morrissey depicts with exceptional grace the way the lines between mother and daughter in this unlikely relationship, although blurred, are deeply felt. KIT'S LAW is a novel of extraordinary, almost mythical power and marks the debut of an enormous new talent.

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Bookseller
Purpora Books CA (CA)
Bookseller's Inventory #
20665
Title
Kit's Law
Author
Morrissey, Donna
Format/Binding
Paperback
Book Condition
Used - Fine.
Edition
First Edition, First Printing
ISBN 10
0670886017
ISBN 13
9780670886012
Publisher
Viking / Penguin
Place of Publication
Toronto
Date Published
1999

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