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The joyful child / Norman Ravvin ; with illustrations by Melanie Boyle.

by Ravvin, Norman, 1963-

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Gaspereau Press, c2011.

Fathers and sons -- Fiction.

9781554470877 (trade pbk.)

1554470870 (trade pbk.)

131 p. : ill. ; 21 cm.

The old car guys -- Kind of blule -- Goodby, Cha-Charoo -- The old woman -- The summers father went away -- Dreaming of Cranbrook -- Anyone got an E harmonica? -- September song.

"Novel about a father and his four-year-old son – Paul and Nick – and the companionship they develop at home and on the road. After Paul's breakup with Nick's mother, the two start out together on Toronto's Shaw Street, honing their idea of home. But circumstances take them across the Prairies, down to Montana and then to the outskirts of Detroit. Their experiences point backward, to Paul's own father, a jazz loving Manhattanite who abandoned his family, and then further back to a grandfather, a comic figure in a long lost Polish town. In 'The Joyful Child' adult lives are guided by children, by children's stories, by the experience of travel and abandonment, and by a love of old cars and music. It's a novel that sings sweet, sometimes sad songs; a children's story for adults."--Author's website.

Canadian fiction.

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