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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Gillis, Tessie, 1910-1972.     Subjects     Families -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Fiction.     Rural conditions -- Fiction.     Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.     Spousal abuse -- Fiction.     Alcoholism -- Fiction.     Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- Fiction.     Nova Scotia -- Fiction.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gillis, Tessie, 1910-1972.       by title:      The woman from away ...       by call number:      FICTION GIL     Search the Web     Gillis, Tessie, 1910-1972.     Families -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Fiction.     Rural conditions -- Fiction.     Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.     Spousal abuse -- Fiction.     Alcoholism -- Fiction.     Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- Fiction.     Nova Scotia -- Fiction.       MARC Display

The woman from away : the collected writing of Cape Breton's Tessie Gillis / [introduction by Ronald Caplan]. by Gillis, Tessie, 1910-1972. Breton Books, 2009. Call #: FICTION GIL Subjects Families -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island -- Fiction.   Rural conditions -- Fiction.   Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.   Spousal abuse -- Fiction.   Alcoholism -- Fiction.   Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- Fiction.   Nova Scotia -- Fiction. ISBN:  9781895415926 (trade pbk.) Alternate title:  Stories from the woman from away. John R. and Son. Description:  xii, 273 p. ; 23 cm. Notes:  "2 novels, 4 stories and a family history"--Cover. "© 1998, 2009 Helena Gillis MacLeod"--T.p. verso. Includes family history (p. 267-273). Contents:  Stories from the woman from away -- The innocent -- Horses of the sun -- Olive -- King -- John R. and Son -- Family history-Tessie's story. Summary:  "The story of Tessie Gillis is now well known. She was a woman determined to write, who found the time to write only after she was stricken with heart disease, confined to one room and an oxygen tent, living in rural Cape Breton Island. From there she contacted Evelyn Garbary who became her editor, her friend and, after Tessie's death, her devoted promoter -- keeping Tessie's work alive, getting stories read on CBC Radio and eventually seeing the work published. Tessie saw none of this. She died in 1972. Since then her stories and two novels have become established classics -- the first Cape Breton writing to dare tell stark stories of harscrabble life, of rural distances and pain, and of alcoholism and domestic abuse -- stories that have realized high acclaim. And now, in honour of the 100th anniversary of the birth of this Godmother of Cape Breton fiction, Breton Books is proud to offer a new collection of the writing of Tessie Gillis."--Publisher. Genre:  Canadian fiction. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Fiction FICTION GIL Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Captain William Spry Public Library Adult Nonfiction FICTION GIL Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Local History Collection 819.354 G481w Non-circulating Local History Room - Central Library, 4th Floor Add Copy to MyList

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