Steve Burgess

Who Killed Mom? (eBook, ePUB)

A Delinquent Son's Meditation on Family, Mortality, and Very Tacky Candles

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Memoir, biography, and outrageous comedy make for a perfect blend in the debut book from acclaimed writer Steve Burgess. Telling the tale of his mother's life and death, and along the way laying bare his own life and struggles, Burgess renders a memorable and deeply moving meditation on life and family.

The author's mother, Joan, barely survived her thirteenth birthday: a rare disorder had made it almost impossible for her to swallow food. Her battle to survive this illness was the first in a lifelong sequence of courageous confrontations with her upbringing. As she raised her five children, Joan revealed herself to be a strong and remarkably complex woman. This is her story, but it's also the story of her husband, a charming United Church minister, and their children-including the alarmingly delinquent Steve, who spent much of his adolescence and beyond dropping acid, drinking to excess, and getting in trouble with the law. Which leads him to wonder: was he responsible for his mother's ills and perhaps even her death?

Whether he's relating how an ice cream product saved him from a gruesome death on the Trans-Canada, or sizing up the rebranding efforts of a woeful Manitoba motel, or depicting daily life

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Greystone Books
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. April 2011
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781553658344
• Artikelnr.: 39295372

Autorenporträt

Steve Burgess is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. Burgess' stories have been featured in Reader's Digest editions around the world, as well as Maclean's, the Globe & Mail, and other publications. Who Killed Mom? is his first book.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Expiry Dates ......... 1
2 The Gift That Keeps on Rebuking ......... 10
3 Casablanca Christmas ......... 26
4 Grandma ......... 34
5 The Food Chain ......... 45
6 Made on a Friday ......... 57
7 A Bumpy Ride ......... 71
8 Regina ......... 83
9 Christmas Town ......... 99
10 Spoon und Drang ......... 112
11 Who Killed Mom? ......... 125
12 Trials ......... 141
13 Who Killed Grandma? ......... 158
14 Luck ......... 167
15 A Night in the Life ......... 179
16 Riverheights Terrace ......... 188
17 Parables of Joan ......... 199
18 End Game ......... 213
19 Time Trials ......... 224
20 Goodbye, Christmas Town ......... 238
Acknowledgements ......... 251