Cumyn Richard
Cumyn Richard - This Lark Of Stolen Time A Novel - Paperback
Cumyn Richard - This Lark Of Stolen Time A Novel - Paperback
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Description: During a dispiriting March snowstorm all four of the Lauder Jones children are living at home again. It's a rare moment of congress before the family dissolves. Their father Douglas is an obscure short - story writer and their mother Ursula a neuroscientist searching for the cures for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. John the eldest works in his mother's lab at Dalhousie University. Though he has only his dissertation left to complete in pursuit of his doctorate he is in agony over the end of a love relationship and no longer wants to be a scientist. His sister Merin has returned from working in publishing in Toronto and has used a windfall inheritance to open a small independent movie house on Barrington Street one frequented by her teenage sister Anya an aspiring painter. The youngest Cary observes his family with a keen eye through the years that follow John's decision to leave Halifax to work on a coast guard ship out of Prince Rupert BC. a decision that leads to two untimely deaths and profoundly alters the lives of each member of the family.
Title: This Lark Of Stolen Time A Novel
Author(s): Cumyn Richard
Publisher: Great Plains Publications Ltd
Barcode: 9781773371177
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 6/4/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
Description: During a dispiriting March snowstorm all four of the Lauder Jones children are living at home again. It's a rare moment of congress before the family dissolves. Their father Douglas is an obscure short - story writer and their mother Ursula a neuroscientist searching for the cures for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases. John the eldest works in his mother's lab at Dalhousie University. Though he has only his dissertation left to complete in pursuit of his doctorate he is in agony over the end of a love relationship and no longer wants to be a scientist. His sister Merin has returned from working in publishing in Toronto and has used a windfall inheritance to open a small independent movie house on Barrington Street one frequented by her teenage sister Anya an aspiring painter. The youngest Cary observes his family with a keen eye through the years that follow John's decision to leave Halifax to work on a coast guard ship out of Prince Rupert BC. a decision that leads to two untimely deaths and profoundly alters the lives of each member of the family.
Title: This Lark Of Stolen Time A Novel
Author(s): Cumyn Richard
Publisher: Great Plains Publications Ltd
Barcode: 9781773371177
Pages: 336 Pages
Publication Date: 6/4/2024
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction
