Street Angel
Publisher: Wilfred Laurier University Press; Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
Language: eng
Format: paperback
Number of pages: 162
ISBN-13: 9781771120265
Description: "Street Angel opens to the voice of an eleven-year-old Dominic. She's growing up in Newfoundland. Her mother suffers from terrifying nighttime hallucinations. Her father's business is about to collapse. She layers the world she hears on radio and television onto her family, speaking in paratactic prose with a point-blank delivery. She finds relief only in the glamour of Hollywood films and the majesty of Newfoundland's wilderness. Revealing her life through flashbacks, humour, and her signature self-confidence, Dominic takes readers from 1950s Newfoundland to 1960s Pittsburgh, 1970s New York, and the end of the millennium in Toronto. Capturing the long days of childhood, this book questions how important those days are in shaping who we become as we age and time seems to speed up. With quick brush-stroke chapters Dominic chronicles sixty years of a complex, secretive family in this story about violence, adolescence, families, and forgiveness."--Publisher's website.
Table of contents: title: Part One; label: Chapter One
title: Saturday, Day One
pagenum: 3; label: Chapter Two
title: Sunday, Day Two
pagenum: 19; label: Chapter Three
title: Monday, Day Three
pagenum: 27; label: Chapter Four
title: Tuesday, Day Four
pagenum: 37; label: Chapter Five
title: Wednesday, Day Five
pagenum: 47; label: Chapter Six
title: Thursday, Day Six
pagenum: 57; label: Chapter Seven
title: Friday, Day Seven
pagenum: 69; label: Chapter Eight
title: Saturday, Day Eight
pagenum: 79; label: Chapter Nine
title: Sunday, Day Nine
pagenum: 89; label: Chapter Ten
title: After the Hamlet
pagenum: 93; title: Part Two; label: Chapter Eleven
title: 1956, October
pagenum: 99; label: Chapter Twelve
title: Speaking in a Foreign Language
pagenum: 103; label: Chapter Thirteen
title: 1960
pagenum: 109; label: Chapter Fourteen
title: Four Years After the Hamlet
pagenum: 111; label: Chapter Fifteen
title: 22 November 1963
pagenum: 115; label: Chapter Sixteen
title: 1964, Early Morning
pagenum: 119; label: Chapter Seventeen
title: End of the Seventies, Autumn
pagenum: 125; label: Chapter Eighteen
title: Central Park, Start of the Eighties
pagenum: 131; label: Chapter Nineteen
title: Manhattan, a Morning in June
pagenum: 133; label: Chapter Twenty
title: Y2K
pagenum: 135; label: Chapter Twenty-one
title: Final Prayer
pagenum: 141; label: Chapter Twenty-two
title: After Everything That Ever Happened
pagenum: 145; label: Acknowledgements
title: 147; label: Glossary of Newfoundland Terms
title: 149