A world elsewhere
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- ISBN: 9780307399922 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 0307399923 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource - Publisher: Toronto, Ontario : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2011.
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Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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Subject: | Rich people -- United States -- Fiction Adoption -- Fiction St. John's (N.L.) -- Fiction Newfoundland and Labrador -- History -- 19th century -- Fiction |
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WAYNE JOHNSTON was born and raised in Goulds, Newfoundland. His bestselling novels including The Divine Ryans, A World Elsewhere, The Custodian of Paradise, The Navigator of New York, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, and First Snow, Last Light. His first book, The Story of Bobby O'Malley won the WH Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Baltimore's Mansion, a memoir about his father and grandfather, won the inaugural Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, published in 1998, was nominated for sixteen national and international awards including the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, and was a Canada Reads finalist defended by Justin Trudeau. He lives in Toronto.