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03201aam a2200505 i 4500 001 CD6282AA1D8011EFA6667B3325ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240529010049 008 220512t20232023nhua e 000 0aeng d 020 $a 1586423622 020 $a 9781586423629 035 $a (OCoLC)1316698625 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d GZD $d GP5 $d BDX $d ZGR $d OCLCF $d YDX $d FHP $d DKU $d OCLCO $d OCLCL $d SILO 050 4 $a PR9199.3.J599 $b Z46 2023 055 14 $a PS8569.O3918 $b Z46 2023 082 04 $a 818/.54 $2 23/eng/20230405 082 04 $a 971.8/092 $2 23 100 1 $a Johnston, Wayne, $e author. 245 10 $a Jennie's boy : $b a misfit childhood on an island of eccentrics / $c Wayne Johnston. 264 1 $a Lebanon, New Hampsire : $b Steerforth Press, $c [2023] 300 $a 307 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 21 cm 534 $p Originally published: $c Toronto, Canada : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, a division of Penguin Random House Canada Limited, 2022, $n under title: $t Jennie's boy : a Newfoundland childhood. 520 $a "Wayne Johnston's family -- his mother, father, and three brothers -- were always on the move. The year he turned eight, the most memorable year of an unusual childhood, they found themselves occupying a wreck of a house in the community his mother Jennie was from: Goulds, Newfoundland was not so much a place as a scattering of homes along an unpaved road. Everyone knew him as "Jennie's boy," and his tiny, ferocious mother felt judged for Wayne's sickly, skinny condition -- he had to spend much of his time in a bed on wheels that was moved from room to room. While his brothers went off to school, Wayne passed his days with his witty, eccentric maternal grandmother, Lucy, whose son Leonard had died at the age of seven and whose photo stood alongside a statue of the Blessed Virgin. Jennie's Boy recalls a boyhood full of pain, laughter, tenderness, and the kind of wit for which Newfoundlanders are known. By that wit, and by their love for each other -- so often expressed in the most unloving ways -- he, and they, survived" -- $c Provided by publisher. 600 10 $a Johnston, Wayne. 600 10 $a Johnston, Wayne $x Childhood and youth. 600 10 $a Johnston, Wayne $x Family. 650 0 $a Authors, Canadian $z Goulds $z Goulds $v Biography. 651 0 $a Goulds (N.L.) $v Biography. 650 7 $a BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs. $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a HISTORY / Canada / Provincial, Territorial & Local / Atlantic Provinces (NB, NL, NS, PE) $2 bisacsh 650 7 $a SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness. $2 bisacsh 600 17 $a Johnston, Wayne $2 fast $1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJbM4v6JKYFGpx3M4FJhpP 650 7 $a Authors, Canadian $2 fast 650 7 $a Childhood and youth of a person $2 fast 650 7 $a Families $2 fast 651 7 $a Newfoundland and Labrador $z Goulds $2 fast 655 7 $a autobiographies (literary works) $2 aat 655 7 $a Autobiographies $2 fast 655 7 $a Biographies $2 fast 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Autobiographies. $2 rvmgf 941 $a 1 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20240529010232.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=CD6282AA1D8011EFA6667B3325ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b JIDInitiate Another SILO Locator Search