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  title info:
    title: Jennie's boy
    sub title: a Newfoundland childhood
  name:
    name part: Johnston, Wayne
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2022
    copyright date: 2022
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 307 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.
  abstract: Consummate storyteller and bestselling novelist Wayne Johnston reaches back into his past to bring us a sad, tender and at times extremely funny memoir of a Newfoundland boyhood few thought he would survive, including him. For six months between 1966 and 1967, Wayne Johnston and his family lived in a wreck of a house across from his grandparents in Goulds, Newfoundland, which was not so much a place as a scattering of houses along an unpaved road. At seven, Wayne was sickly and skinny, unable to keep food down, unable to sleep, plagued with a relentless cough that no doctor could diagnose, though they had already removed his tonsils, adenoids and appendix. Heart murmur, pleurisy, a tapeworm? All were suspected, and none confirmed. To the community he was known as "Jennie's boy," and his tiny, ferocious mother felt judged for Wayne's condition at the same time as worried he might not grow up to be his own man. While his brothers went off to school, and his parents to work, trying to stave off the next eviction, Wayne spent his days with his witty, religious, deeply eccentric maternal grandmother, Lucy, who kept a statue of the Blessed Virgin in one of her bedrooms along with a photo of her son Leonard, who had died at seven. During these six months of Wayne's childhood, he and Lucy faced two life-or-death crises, and only one of them lived to tell the tale. Jennie's Boy is Wayne's tribute to a family and a community that were simultaneously fiercely protective of him and fed up with having to make allowances for him, grandparents, parents and siblings, aunts and uncles and the people of the Goulds, whose pet and nuisance he was. He recalls a boyhood full of pain, yes, but also laughter, tenderness and the kind of wit that is peculiar to Newfoundlanders. By that wit, and by their love for each other, so often expressed in the most unloving ways, he, and they, survived.
  note: Wayne Johnston.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-cn-nf
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Johnston, Wayne
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Johnston, Wayne
    topic: Childhood and youth
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Johnston, Wayne
    topic: Family
  subject:
    geographic: Goulds (N.L.)
    genre: Biography
  classification: PR9199.3.J599 Z46 2022
  classification: 813/.54
  identifier: 9781039001664
  identifier: 1039001661
  identifier: 1586423622
  identifier: 9781586423629
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 220105
    record change date: 20240925204604.2
    record identifier: in00004766015
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng