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Author: Donna Morrissey
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
Imprint: Viking
Dimensions:
Width: 14.50cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 21.00cm
Weight: 0.352kg
ISBN: 9780735239197
ISBN 10: 0735239193
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 14 September 2021
Audience:
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
One of the Winnipeg Free Press's Best Books of 2021 One of CBC's 57 works of Canadian nonfiction coming out in fall 2021 [that] we can't wait to read Remarkable. . . . [Pluck] is that rare book that pulls the curtain back on working life, illuminating both its stresses and sorrows and its unexpected joys. -The Globe and Mail I have heard many tell and sing about the challenges and blessings of the hard and happy times in outport Newfoundland, but never have I felt such a connection to it in story or song as in Donna Morrissey's Pluck. I feel like I have walked the hills with her in an extraordinary childhood filled with death and dancing, where nothing was so fearsome or fascinating as 'away'. This is a song of a story and I would love an encore. -Alan Doyle, musician, actor and bestselling author of All Together Now The ups and downs of Donna Morrissey's life would be enough to give anyone the bends. Pluck is a terrific read, a tale that will make you laugh and cry. Take the plunge. -Mark Critch, bestselling author of An Embarrassment of Critch's and Son of a Critch In Pluck, Donna Morrissey turns her award-winning storytelling skills to a compelling, compassionate and often humorous account of growing up with her big, turbulent, loving family in outport Newfoundland. This deeply moving memoir is the story of a writer finding her way and her voice. But more so, it's a powerful reflection on the experiences of tragedy and redemption, and the inextricably linked states of loss and love. -Pauline Dakin, bestselling author of Run, Hide, Repeat Imagination, fortitude, pluck and metamorphosis are some of the themes of this . . . engaging account of the author's ties to Newfoundland and her family in the context of her development as a writer. -The Winnipeg Free Press Donna Morrissey [has] known and lived tragedies many of us only hear about. . . . [yet[ she writes about all of these things with such beauty. . . . There's darkness, and she doesn't shy away from it. It's real. It's raw. And it's beautiful. -Edwards Book Club Reviews
I have heard many tell and sing about the challenges and blessings of the hard and happy times in outport Newfoundland, but never have I felt such a connection to it in story or song as in Donna Morrissey's Pluck. I feel like I have walked the hills with her in an extraordinary childhood filled with death and dancing, where nothing was so fearsome or fascinating as 'away'. This is a song of a story and I would love an encore. --Alan Doyle, musician, actor and bestselling author of All Together Now The ups and downs of Donna Morrissey's life would be enough to give anyone the bends. Pluck is a terrific read, a tale that will make you laugh and cry. Take the plunge. --Mark Critch, bestselling author of An Embarrassment of Critch's and Son of a Critch
Author Information
DONNA MORRISSEY is the author of the nationally bestselling memoir Pluck, which was a finalist for the Atlantic Book Awards' Non-Fiction Award, and of six acclaimed and bestselling novels. Among her honours are the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award and the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Fiction for The Fortunate Brother; Sylvanus Now was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writers' Prize; and The Deception of Livvy Higgs was a One Read pick for Nova Scotia in 2017. Her fiction has also won awards in the US and the UK, and has been translated into several languages. Born and raised in Newfoundland, she lives in Halifax.
