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- catalog abstract "A Splinter in the Heart, Al Purdy's only novel, provides a vivid picture of Purdy's childhood home of Trenton, Ontario, in the final days of the First World War. On Thanksgiving Day in 1918, Trenton was devastated by a fire and explosion at a munitions factory owned by the British Chemical Company, the town's one big employer. All of the action in A Splinter in the Heart anticipates this cataclysm. As disaster looms, Purdy takes Patrick Cameron, his awkward and undistinguished teenage hero, through the usual elements of adolescence: he falls in love; he takes up long-distance running; his mother is courted by Trenton's firebrand preacher; his ancient grandfather, Marshall "Portugee" Cameron, dies.".
- catalog contributor b3145922.
- catalog coverage "Trenton (Ont.) Fiction.".
- catalog created "c1990.".
- catalog date "1990".
- catalog date "c1990.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1990.".
- catalog description "A Splinter in the Heart, Al Purdy's only novel, provides a vivid picture of Purdy's childhood home of Trenton, Ontario, in the final days of the First World War. On Thanksgiving Day in 1918, Trenton was devastated by a fire and explosion at a munitions factory owned by the British Chemical Company, the town's one big employer. All of the action in A Splinter in the Heart anticipates this cataclysm. As disaster looms, Purdy takes Patrick Cameron, his awkward and undistinguished teenage hero, through the usual elements of adolescence: he falls in love; he takes up long-distance running; his mother is courted by Trenton's firebrand preacher; his ancient grandfather, Marshall "Portugee" Cameron, dies.".
- catalog extent "259 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Splinter in the heart.".
- catalog identifier "077107218X :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Splinter in the heart.".
- catalog issued "1990".
- catalog issued "c1990.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Toronto, Ont. : McClelland & Stewart,".
- catalog relation "Splinter in the heart.".
- catalog spatial "Trenton (Ont.) Fiction.".
- catalog subject "813/.54 20".
- catalog subject "Canadian fiction 20th century.".
- catalog subject "PR9199.3.P8 S64 1990".
- catalog title "A splinter in the heart : a novel / Al Purdy.".
- catalog type "Fiction. fast".
- catalog type "text".