Songs My Mother Taught Me
- Publisher
- Talonbooks
- Initial publish date
- Jan 1993
- Category
- Literary, General, Coming of Age
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780889223295
- Publish Date
- Jan 1993
- List Price
- $19.95
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Description
Republished with a new introduction, this is Audrey Thomas’s classic coming-of-age novel about madness, loneliness, despair and escape.
About the author
Audrey Thomas was born in Binghamton, New York, in 1953, and has lived in Canada since 1959. She divides her time between Galiano Island in the Gulf Islands of British Columbia and Victoria. She has published more than a dozen works of fiction. Her novels include Mrs. Blood (1970), Latakia (1979), Intertidal Life (1984), and Isobel Gunn (1999). " Natural History," a prize winner in the 1980 CBC Canadian Literary Awards, was published in her collection Real Mothers (1981).