Dinner with Lisa - Softcover

Prendergast, R. L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0978454820 ISBN 13: 9780978454821

Verlag: Dekko Publishing, 2011

Inhaltsangabe

In the disastrous economic times of the 1930s, Joseph Gaston, a young widower with four children, arrives in the small town of Philibuster seeking security for his family. Instead, he faces barriers everywhere. He does his best despite great adversity, but the strain of feeding and protecting his family whittles away his strength. Finally, destitution forces him to consider giving up his children in order to save them. Enraged by his situation, he attempts one last desperate act-on the night he learns about the mysterious Lisa. Heart wrenching, humorous and historically authentic, Dinner with Lisa incorporates the crucial issues of the depression: poverty, unemployment, drought and racism. In the midst of love and loyalty, trickery and despair, the ultimate message of the novel is one of hope and the courage to survive even the worst odds.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

R. L. (Rod) Prendergast's first novel, The Impact of a Single Event, was long-listed for literary fiction by the Independent Publisher Book Awards in 2009. The book became a bestseller in Canada. Rod's second novel, Dinner with Lisa, was awarded the 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards Bronze Medal for Best Regional Fiction, Western Canada. Inspired by his son's inability to sleep through the night, Rod then wrote a children's story, Baby, Please go to Sleep. The Confessions of Socrates is his third novel and fourth book. Rod lives with his wife and son in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Dekko Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0978454820
• ISBN 13: 9780978454821
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 306
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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