The Resource Bleak Landing, Terrie Todd,
Bleak Landing, Terrie Todd,
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The item Bleak Landing, Terrie Todd, represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Thunder Bay Public Library.
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- Summary
- In the dead-end Canadian town of Bleak Landing, twelve-year-old Irish immigrant Bridget O'Sullivan lives in a ramshackle house and dreams of another life, even as the Great Depression rages. Routinely beaten by her father and bullied by schoolmate Victor Harrison, the waifish yet fiery redhead vows to run away and never return. Just a few short years later, run she does, fleeing the unspeakable repercussions of her father's gambling. In Winnipeg, Bridget lands a job at a garment factory, the first step on her journey to shed her past and begin anew. When her father dies, Bridget, now a striking and accomplished woman, returns home to claim her inheritance. But she has no identification to prove her stake, and no one in town recognizes her,except Victor, who has become a pastor and a candidate for town mayor. Though war has wounded him, his secret affection for Bridget remains, and now he's the only one who can help her prove her integrity
- Language
- eng
- Label
- Bleak Landing
- Title
- Bleak Landing
- Statement of responsibility
- Terrie Todd,
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In the dead-end Canadian town of Bleak Landing, twelve-year-old Irish immigrant Bridget O'Sullivan lives in a ramshackle house and dreams of another life, even as the Great Depression rages. Routinely beaten by her father and bullied by schoolmate Victor Harrison, the waifish yet fiery redhead vows to run away and never return. Just a few short years later, run she does, fleeing the unspeakable repercussions of her father's gambling. In Winnipeg, Bridget lands a job at a garment factory, the first step on her journey to shed her past and begin anew. When her father dies, Bridget, now a striking and accomplished woman, returns home to claim her inheritance. But she has no identification to prove her stake, and no one in town recognizes her,except Victor, who has become a pastor and a candidate for town mayor. Though war has wounded him, his secret affection for Bridget remains, and now he's the only one who can help her prove her integrity
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Todd, Terrie
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- fiction
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Bleak Landing, Terrie Todd,
- Control code
- pr01285287
- Extent
- 304 pages
- Isbn
- 9781542046336
- Label
- Bleak Landing, Terrie Todd,
- Control code
- pr01285287
- Extent
- 304 pages
- Isbn
- 9781542046336
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