Annabel
Kathleen Winter
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Ebook in format. Available for immediate download after we receive your order
Publisher:
House of Anansi Press Inc
House of Anansi Press Inc
DRM:
Open - No Protection
Open - No Protection
Publication Year:
2010
2010
ISBN-13:
9781770895591
Description:
<p><strong>Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Governor General's Award for Fiction, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize</strong></p>
<p>In 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once.</p>
<p>Only three people are privy to the secret — the baby's parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina. Together the adults make a difficult decision: to raise the child as a boy named Wayne. But as Wayne grows to adulthood within the hyper-masculine hunting culture of his father, his shadow-self — a girl he thinks of as "Annabel" — is never entirely extinguished, and indeed is secretly nurtured by the women in his life.</p>
<p>Haunting, sweeping in scope, and stylistically reminiscent of Jeffrey Eugenides' <em>Middlesex</em>, <em>Annabel</em> is a compelling tale about one person's struggle to discover the truth about their birth and self in a culture that shuns contradiction.</p>
<p>In 1968, into the beautiful, spare environment of remote coastal Labrador, a mysterious child is born: a baby who appears to be neither fully boy nor girl, but both at once.</p>
<p>Only three people are privy to the secret — the baby's parents, Jacinta and Treadway, and a trusted neighbour, Thomasina. Together the adults make a difficult decision: to raise the child as a boy named Wayne. But as Wayne grows to adulthood within the hyper-masculine hunting culture of his father, his shadow-self — a girl he thinks of as "Annabel" — is never entirely extinguished, and indeed is secretly nurtured by the women in his life.</p>
<p>Haunting, sweeping in scope, and stylistically reminiscent of Jeffrey Eugenides' <em>Middlesex</em>, <em>Annabel</em> is a compelling tale about one person's struggle to discover the truth about their birth and self in a culture that shuns contradiction.</p>