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Childhood (1998)

Childhood (1998)

Literary Fiction Family Fiction

André Alexis

Year: 1998
Authors: André Alexis
Print type: BOOK

Description:

Until the age of 10, Thomas Macmillan has a sad childhood, abandoned by his mother and living with his grandmother. But when the grandmother dies, the mother takes him to stay with a boyfriend, an eccentric intellectual who introduces Macmillan to the world of the mind and his childhood becomes a joy. A first novel by a Trinidadian-Canadian.