Canadian fictionBiography, Politics and government biography, Family biography
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Michael Manley, three-term prime minister of Jamaica, had stood at the heart of a decade of radical social reform in…
the 70s. From the vantage point of her father's bedside during his last six months of life, Rachel Manley searches the shadows that he cast on her as a child and as a woman. She explores how the enduring bonds that held them were tested time and again, not only by the ordinary conflicts of family life but by the heavy demands of the political arena and by a succession of five marriages. 2000.
Dans un décor typiquement québécois, l'auteur rappelle une page d'histoire sportive du club de hockey "Canadiens", par le biais des…
activités d'un jeune admirateur de Henri Richard et de son équipe. "Tout l'univers d'un garçon de dix ans gravite autour du hockey, de la rue et de l'école". Récit de style familier, descriptif des moeurs de l'époque. [SDM