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The Joyful Child

by Norm Ravvin

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list price: $24.94
edition:Paperback
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category: Fiction
published: 2011
ISBN:9781554470877
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In his third novel, Norman Ravvin writes about a father and his young son, and the companionship they develop at home and on the road. Returning to the wanderlust of his travelogue Hidden Canada and to the European Jewish past that often underwrites his characters’ lives, Ravvin follows the interconnections of urban living, the experience of travel and abandonment, and a man’s love of neighbourhoods, of jazz and old cars

 

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About the Author

Norm Ravvin

Norm Ravvin

Norman Ravvin’s books include two novels, Lola by Night and Café des Westens, a story collection, Sex, Skyscrapers, and Standard Yiddish, and Hidden Canada: An Intimate Travelogue. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in magazines across Canada as well as on CBC Radio. A native of Calgary, he lived in Vancouver, Toronto and Fredericton before making his home with his family in Montreal.

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