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Macdonald, Frank, 1945-
Subjects
Canadians -- United States -- Fiction.
Young men -- Fiction.
Hippies -- Fiction.
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- Fiction
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Fiction.
Nova Scotia -- Fiction.
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Macdonald, Frank, 1945-
Canadians -- United States -- Fiction.
Young men -- Fiction.
Hippies -- Fiction.
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- Fiction
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Fiction.
Nova Scotia -- Fiction.
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Tinker
&
Blue
: a novel / by Frank MacDonald.
by
Macdonald, Frank, 1945-
Cape Breton University Press, c2014.
Call #:
FICTION MACD
Subjects
Canadians -- United States -- Fiction.
Young men -- Fiction.
Hippies -- Fiction.
Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- Fiction
San Francisco (Calif.) -- Fiction.
Haight-Ashbury (San Francisco, Calif.) -- Fiction.
Nova Scotia -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781927492949 (trade pbk.)
Alternate title:
Tinker
and
Blue
Description:
388 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
At age 19 and 20, respectively,
Tinker
Dempsey and his oldest friend
Blue
figured it was time they followed generations of Cape Bretoners and crossed the Canso Causeway, if for no other reason than to find a few stories they could call their own when their wandering ways brought them back home. It had been
Blue
's idea to drive their fourth-hand 1957 push-button Plymouth out to San Francisco to look at those Haight-Ashbury types. Hitch-hiking hippies and homespun humour and wisdom, love troubles and trouble with the law -
Tinker
and
Blue
's California adventures are a funny and poignant flashback.
Genre:
Road fiction.
Humorous fiction.
Canadian fiction.
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