Causeway: a Passage from Innocence (Signed First Edition)

MacIntyre, Linden

ISBN 10: 000200724X / ISBN 13: 9780002007245

Published by Harper Collins (HarperCollins), Toronto, 2006

About this Item

A coming of age memoir set during the construction of the causeway between Cape Breton Island and the mainland. 361 pages. With a personal inscription by the author on the title page "To ___ - With sincere gratitude for allowing me to share your brave journey for a while and the example of your courage / Linden 26/08/12".

Seller Inventory # 21671

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Causeway: a Passage from Innocence (Signed First Edition)
• Publisher: Harper Collins (HarperCollins), Toronto
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 000200724X
• ISBN 13: 9780002007245
• Binding: Hard Cover in Dust Jacket
• Edition: First Edition, First Printing.
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine Plus
• Signed: Signed by Author
• Seller catalogs:
  • Canadian Literature

About this title

Synopsis

From the Giller Prize-winning author of The Bishop’s Man comes a bestselling classic childhood memoir, full of humour and heartache, set in Cape Breton Island

Linden MacIntyre remembers vividly the day construction started on the causeway. September 15, 1952, was the day that Change—always for the better and always from away—arrived to link his small Cape Breton village with the wide world of the mainland. With its grand promises of jobs and riches and progress, the building of the Canso Causeway also became a potent personal icon for MacIntyre, the road that would bring him closer to the father who was always away.

In a highly evocative memoir—at once a vibrant coming-of-age story, a portrait of a vanishing way of life and a luminous reflection on fathers and sons—MacIntyre fills his pages with vivid characters. From his grandmother, the Gaelic-speaking Peigeag, who, it was rumoured, had “special powers” that could both cure and curse, to Dan Rory, the father MacIntyre struggles to know and love, these are people who inhabit a time and a place that is on the brink of transformation. No one knows this more than MacIntyre, his narrative voice ringing true on every page, the voice of a young boy both mystified and captivated by the worlds he straddles.

Shot through with humour and humanity, Causeway is an extraordinary book, a memoir that sets a new standard for the genre.

 

About the Author

LINDEN MACINTYRE was the host of Canada’s premiere investigative television show, The Fifth Estate, for nearly twenty-five years. Born in St. Lawrence, Newfoundland, and raised in Port Hastings, Cape Breton, he began his career in 1964 with the Halifax Chronicle-Herald as a parliamentary bureau reporter. MacIntyre later worked at The Journal and hosted CBC Radio’s Sunday Morning before joining The Fifth Estate. His work on that show garnered an International Emmy, and he has won ten Gemini Awards. His bestselling first novel, The Long Stretch, was nominated for a CBA Libris Award, while his boyhood memoir, Causeway: A Passage from Innocence, was a Globe and Mail Best Book of 2006, winning both the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction and the Evelyn Richardson Non-Fiction Award. His second novel, The Bishop’s Man, was a #1 national bestseller and the winner of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Dartmouth Book Award for Fiction and the CBA Libris Fiction Book of the Year Award. His other novels include Why Men Lie, Punishment and The Only Café. MacIntyre lives in Toronto with his wife, CBC radio host and author Carol Off. They spend their summers in a Cape Breton village by the sea.