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Baltimore's Mansion

Baltimore's Mansion

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Winner of the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction • Finalist for the Governor General’s Literary Award and CBC Canada Reads • From the acclaimed author of Jennie’s Boy and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, Wayne Johnston's luminous Newfoundland memoir is a story of fathers and sons, exile and belonging, and reimagined national history—told with familial intimacy and the grandeur of myth.

Baltimore’s Mansion introduces us to the Johnstons of Ferryland, a Catholic colony founded by Lord Baltimore in the 1620s on the Avalon Peninsula of Newfoundland, and centres on three generations of fathers and sons whose lives trace the island’s uneasy passage from proud independence to Canadian Confederation. Filled with heart-stopping description and a cast of stubborn, acerbic, yet utterly charming family members, it is an evocation of a time and a place reminiscent of Wayne Johnston’s best fiction.

Since its debut, Baltimore’s Mansion has become a touchstone in Canadian memoir and is widely hailed as a modern classic for its beguiling combination of family history, autobiography, and national mythmaking.

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ISBN
9780676972979

Number of pages
288

Publisher
Vintage Canada

Bio

WAYNE JOHNSTON was born and raised in Goulds, Newfoundland. His bestselling novels including The Divine Ryans, A World Elsewhere, The Custodian of Paradise, The Navigator of New York, The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, and First Snow, Last Light. His first book, The Story of Bobby O'Malley won the WH Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award. Baltimore's Mansion, a memoir about his father and grandfather, won the inaugural Charles Taylor Prize for literary non-fiction. The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, published in 1998, was nominated for sixteen national and international awards including the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction, and was a Canada Reads finalist defended by Justin Trudeau. He lives in Toronto.

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