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Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada de Bruce McCall PB-
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“Pre=owned. Great read (was for me anyway, who always admired Bruce McCall's illustrations”
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Ubicado en: Miami, Florida, Estados Unidos
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- Estado
- En buen estado
- Notas del vendedor
- “Pre=owned. Great read (was for me anyway, who always admired Bruce McCall's illustrations”
- Binding
- Paperback
- Product Group
- Book
- Literary Movement
- memoir
- Original Language
- English
- Weight
- 10 oz
- IsTextBook
- No
- ISBN
- 9780679769590
- Book Title
- Thin Ice : Coming of Age in Canada
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1999
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Political Science
- Topic
- Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Personal Memoirs, International Relations / General
- Item Width
- 5.2 in
- Item Weight
- 9.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 249 Pages
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His skates were too small. Or they didn't match. Or they were that ultimate humiliation for a boy trying to play hockey--girls' white figure skates. Add to young Bruce McCall's shabby equipment his pencil-thin wrists, weak ankles, and, as he puts it, "a fruit bat's metabolism with a tree sloth's reflexes," and you'll understand why he failed so dismally in the cold, rough world of neighborhood hockey in Toronto. Bruce's catastrophic career as a rink rat epitomizes the youth he recounts in this funny, moving, sometimes disturbing memoir. In fact, Thin Ice examines a boyhood so filled with failure and disappointment that the comedy and insight its author/survivor wrests from it--like his subsequent career as one of America's most admired humorists and illustrators--seem like miracles. Bruce McCall's father, T.C., was an inaccessible tyrant. Bruce's mother, Peg, drank to blunt the effect of her husband's rages and to dodge the duties of taking care of six children. Still, Bruce did know some moments of pleasure as a child, especially in the small town of Simcoe, before T.C. moved his family to the dreary outskirts of Toronto: The Second World War offered its awesome matériel and its heroic men, milk bottles grew top hats of cream, and grapes hung free for the stealing in Mrs. Klein's backyard. But his parents' demons took their toll on Bruce, and the move to Toronto set the stage for academic and social disasters: He flunked out of high school and took dead-end graphic-design jobs, all the while envying the full-color culture and high-octane energy of Canada's muscular neighbor to the south. That envy, combined with Bruce's passion for reading and drawing--one of the few positive bequests from T.C. and Peg McCall--became his refuge and then his salvation. His precocious reverence for The New Yorker magazine led him to invent entire comic worlds of artistic and literary creation. Ultimately, he read, wrote, and drew himself out of pennilessness and despair. Bruce McCall may not have been destined to glide around Madison Square Garden holding the Stanley Cup aloft, but as Thin Ice demonstrates, perseverance and talent can turn crummy ice skates--and even dashed hopes--into dreams come true.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0679769595
ISBN-13
9780679769590
eBay Product ID (ePID)
464326
Product Key Features
Book Title
Thin Ice : Coming of Age in Canada
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Editors, Journalists, Publishers, Personal Memoirs, International Relations / General
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Political Science
Number of Pages
249 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
5.2 in
Item Weight
9.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Reviews
"A Great White North version of Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes ... The remembrances of this illustrator and writer are wry, painful, affectionate, and original ... A treasure." --Entertainment Weekly "A memoir as poignant and comic as a Chaplin movie. Its satirical wit cuts society's hypocrites and bullies with an edge as keen as Mordecai Richler's while its drama lays bare the unfulfilled dreams of small-town Canadians in the compassionate manner of Alice Munro." --Montreal Gazette "A funny and sentimentally tragic little memoir of a tortured Ontario boyhood . . . [Thin Ice will] inspire appreciative nods from anyone who grew up in Canada in the forties or fifties." --The Globe and Mail From the Trade Paperback edition., "A Great White North version of Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes ... The remembrances of this illustrator and writer are wry, painful, affectionate, and original ... A treasure." --Entertainment Weekly "A memoir as poignant and comic as a Chaplin movie. Its satirical wit cuts society's hypocrites and bullies with an edge as keen as Mordecai Richler's while its drama lays bare the unfulfilled dreams of small-town Canadians in the compassionate manner of Alice Munro." --Montreal Gazette "A funny and sentimentally tragic little memoir of a tortured Ontario boyhood . . . [Thin Ice will] inspire appreciative nods from anyone who grew up in Canada in the forties or fifties." --The Globe and Mail
Target Audience
Trade
Dewey Decimal
971.063/092 B
Dewey Edition
21
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