Girl in a Red River Coat: Growing up in Montreal in the 1930s

Publisher: Shoreline
Product Code: YB02189
ISBN: 1896754422
Author: Mary Peate
Condition: Used Very Good

Price: $44.99

Signed and inscribed by the author on the half title page. Book in excellent condition; slight shelf wear.

This is the fictionalized memoir of Peate, a young girl in Montreal’s Notre-Dame-de-Grace neighbourhood near the onset of World War II. It is the best of times and the worst of times. The Depression is still affecting even middle-class communities. There is an innocence to pre-adolescent life (especially convent-educated life) in this era, resulting in some of the book’s best comedy. Peate also has to deal with real problems of polio outbreaks, friends losing their parents, and her ongoing battles with the nuns.
Binding
Paperback  
Edition
2005
Condition
Used Very Good
Collector Alert
Signed
Language
English