Fiction Short Stories (single Author)
The Innocent
And Other Stories
- Publisher
- Breton Books
- Initial publish date
- Mar 2018
- Category
- Short Stories (single author)
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781926908526
- Publish Date
- Mar 2018
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
Including Sheldon Currie's guide and thoughtful introduction, The Innocent and Other Writings is another in a series of Breton Books by and about Legendary Cape Bretoners. Tessie Gillis ranks as the Godmother of Cape Breton Fiction--the first woman to dare write about the darker side of rural Cape Breton and the challenges and strategies for surviving and creating a compassionate and enduring community. Tenderness and insight are fundamental threads through all her writings.
This new collection is an essential sampler of Tessie Gillis's writing, including "The Innocentt", "The Day the Men Went to Town," a beautiful portion of "The Last Chapter But One," and much more. These are lasting stories for today.
About the author
Born in Montana in 1910, Tessie Gillis in the 1950s came with her husband Joe to Rear Glencoe in Inverness County to live the hard, satisfying life of rural Cape Breton, Nova Scotia. Illness finally gave her the opportunity to write, and her friend and editor Evelyn Garbary helped her bloom into one of Cape Breton's finest writers. Daring to write about the darker elements of rural life, Tessie Gillis has emerged as the Godmother of Cape Breton Fiction. She died in 1972.
