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Childhood

André Alexis

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#3953 of 8,085 books · #1999 in Fiction

Shortlisted for the Giller Prize (1998).

Until the age of 10, Thomas Macmillan has a sad childhood, abandoned by his mother and living with his grandmother. But when the grandmother dies, the mother takes him to stay with a boyfriend, an eccentric intellectual who introduces Macmillan to the world of the mind and his childhood becomes a joy.

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Publisher
Theatre Communications Group
ISBN-13
9780771006678
Genre
Fiction
Topics
Coming of ageFamilyAbandonment

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