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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Morrissey, Donna, 1956-     Subjects     Morrissey, Donna, 1956-     Morrissey, Donna, 1956- -- Childhood and youth.     Morrissey, Donna, 1956- -- Mental health.     Morrissey, Donna, 1956- -- Family.     Novelists, Canadian -- 21st century -- Biography     Authors, Canadian -- 21st century -- Biography.     Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Morrissey, Donna, 1956-       by title:      Pluck : a memoir of ...       by call number:      BOOK CLUB KIT 921 M883p     Search the Web     Morrissey, Donna, 1956-     Morrissey, Donna, 1956-     Morrissey, Donna, 1956- -- Childhood and youth.     Morrissey, Donna, 1956- -- Mental health.     Morrissey, Donna, 1956- -- Family.     Novelists, Canadian -- 21st century -- Biography     Authors, Canadian -- 21st century -- Biography.     Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography.       MARC Display

Pluck : a memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist (book club kit - fiction) / Donna Morrissey. by Morrissey, Donna, 1956- Viking Canada, 2021. Call #: BOOK CLUB KIT 921 M883p Subjects Morrissey, Donna, 1956-   Morrissey, Donna, 1956- -- Childhood and youth.   Morrissey, Donna, 1956- -- Mental health.   Morrissey, Donna, 1956- -- Family.   Novelists, Canadian -- 21st century -- Biography   Authors, Canadian -- 21st century -- Biography.   Newfoundland and Labrador -- Biography. URL856 Click here to learn more about borrowing Book Club Kits URL856 Would you like to see what other titles we have available in Book Club Kits? Click here! URL856 Holds must be placed via our Request Form URL856 Information kit for "Pluck : a memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist" ISBN:  9780735239197 (pbk.) Alternate title:  Book club kit : Pluck : a memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist Bookclub kit : Pluck : a memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist Description:  10 copies, 305 p., 8 unnumbered pages of plates : ill., portraits, 21 cm. Notes:  Holds can be placed via the Request Form on our website. Please include your library card number, the date you would like to pick up the kit, the branch location, and list several titles for each date, in case your first pick is not available. Ideal for your Book Club or Reading Group. This kit includes a nylon Halifax Public Libraries bag with 10 copies of Donna Morrissey's "Pluck : a memoir of a Newfoundland childhood and the raucous, terrible, amazing journey to becoming a novelist", along with author and title information, and a list of discussion questions. The kit is available to borrow for 6 weeks. Summary:  "A deeply personal account of love's restorative ability as it leads renowned novelist Donna Morrissey through mental illness, family death, and despair to becoming a writer--told with charm and inimitable humour. When Donna Morrissey left the only home she had ever known, an isolated Newfoundland settlement, at age 16, she was ready for adventure. She had grown up without television or telephones but had absorbed the tragic stories and comic yarns of her close-knit family and community. The death of her infant brother marked the family, and years later, Morrissey suffers devastating guilt about the accidental death of her teenage brother, whom she'd enticed to join her in the oilfields. Her misery was compounded by her own misdiagnosis of a terminal illness, all of which contributed to crippling anxiety and an actual diagnosis of PTSD. Many of those events and themes would eventually be transformed and recast as fictional gold in Morrissey's novels. In another writer's hands, Morrissey's account of her personal story could easily be a tragedy. Instead, she combines darkness and light, levity and sadness into her tale, as her indomitable spirit and humour sustain her. Morrissey's path takes her from the drudgery of being a grocery clerk (who occasionally enlivens her shift with recreational drugs) to western oilfields, to marriage and divorce and working in a fish-processing plant to support herself and her two young children. Throughout her struggles, she nourishes a love of learning and language. Morrissey layers her account of her life with stories of those who came before her, a breed rarely seen in the modern world. It centers around iron-willed women: mothers and daughters, wives, sisters, teachers and mentors who find the support, the wind for their wings, outside the bounds given to them by nature. And it is a mysterious older woman she meets in Halifax who eventually unleashes the writer that Morrissey is destined to become. An inspiring and insightful memoir, Pluck illustrates that even when you find yourself unravelling, you can find a way to spin the yarns that will save you--and delight readers everywhere."--From publisher. Genre:  Memoirs. Book Club Kit Other authors:  HPL Readers Services Holds:  4   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Collection Management Adult Book Club Kit BOOK CLUB KIT 921 M883p Adult Book Club Kit Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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