The winter Helen dropped by: A novel - Hardcover

Kinsella, W.P.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002243806 ISBN 13: 9780002243803

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 1995

Synopsis

Narrated by young Jamie O'Day, who is beginning to understand that, like his daddy says, "every story is about sex or death, or sometimes both,"The Winter Helen Dropped Byis a story of growing up, of loss, of laughter and of characters both sexy and dead.

Helen is the young, pregnant Indian woman who drops into Jamie's life one freeze-the-balls-off-a-brass-monkey snow-storming night. It is her haunting presence, woven throughout Jamie's accounts of the spring he damn near drowned, the summer of the peculiar reconstituted wedding of Mrs.Beatrice Ann Stevenson and Mr.Earl J. Rasmussen, followed by the summer White Chaps murdered his wife, that makes this a funny, sad and wholly wonderful new novel.

About this title

About the Author:

William Patrick Kinsella, OC, OBC (born May 25, 1935) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer. His work has often concerned baseball, First Nations people, and other Canadian issues.

About this edition

• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0002243806
• ISBN 13: 9780002243803
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 186