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Nova Scotia love stories

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  • Author: Choyce, Lesley
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    2017
    Summary:

    In Nova Scotia Love Stories, Lesley Choyce has assembled some of the province's most beloved authors who explore through fact and fiction the myriad ways in which a love story exists. These writers with a strong emotional connection to this shaped-by-the-sea province demonstrate the many guises and moods of love: for the young, the aged and all points in between. There is love that is healing, heart-throbbing joyful, but also love that is disillusioned, unusual, possibly misguided, but always life-changing. The stories are heartwarming, touching, funny, and profound. This collection will convince any reader that love thrives and abides here on the wave-swept shores of Nova Scotia. A young girl experiences profound attraction to the enigmatic but charismatic Manuel Jenkins in Budge Wilson's tale; a child tells of having two mothers in Bruce Graham's short story; and Marjorie Simmins and Silver Donald Cameron each describe how they met and fell in love, bridging their lives from opposite coasts of Canada. Maureen Hull's Miranda finds herself in a relationship with a rather unlikely partner; Jim Lotz and Lindsay Ruck tell of real-life love stories: deep, long-standing commitment between two kindred souls, through a lifetime of shared adventures. There are other jewels here from Jon Tattrie, Steven Laffoley, Sheldon Currie, Harold Horwood, Carol Bruneau, Michael Ungar, William Kowalski, Don Aker, Chris Benjamin, and Lesley Choyce. Collectively, these writers explore many facets of this most human emotion.

    Contents:
    • Introduction
    • Have a little faith / Maureen Hull
    • Some girl I met at a party somewhere / William Kowalski
    • The vagabond lover / Carol Bruneau
    • A marvellous living side by side / Jim Lotz
    • A child of two mothers / Bruce Graham
    • Mr. Manuel Jenkins / Budge Wilson
    • Black snow / Jon Tattrie
    • Lauchie and Liza and Rory / Sheldon Currie
    • A following sea / Michael Ungar
    • A love that stands the test of time: Joyce and Calvin Ruck / Lindsay Ruck
    • What you' re given / Don Aker
    • Operation Niblet / Chris Benjamin
    • The only way home / Steven Laffoley
    • Music at the close / Harold Horwood
    • Forever worlds / Marjorie Simmins
    • Meeting Marjorie / Silver Donald Cameron
    • Down the rocks ashore / Lesley Choyce.
    Original Publisher: [S.l.], Pottersfield Press
    Language(s): English