Another Place at the Table

Cook, Mary

ISBN 10: 0921165579 / ISBN 13: 9780921165576

Published by Creative Bound, Carp, 1998

About this Item

SUBTITLED : ` My Mother's Story '. 151 pages of fictionalized history. It is based on the real life story of the author's mother - Mabel Ernestine Haneman (nee Lapointe) - born in 1898.The setting is near Ottawa and the time is 1925. Read about: Number 2 Firehall, Somerset Street, rain-barrel, gingerbread clock, Marta Saijai, and Rosie Vineberg. Parts of this story may have been heard on CBC radio. Author has signed and dedicated the title page. Cond :Paper wrapper is blue with soft pink lettering. Front cover dtawing is of an old-fashioned farm kitchen.Volume is tight, bright, square and clean. collectible ! ! Quote (p. 53) : " Mabs' days off were few and far between, and sometimes if she only had a few hours to call her own, Raine, Mabs and Mario would wait for her at the nurses' residence called the Hall. Afterwards, in one of the little cafes for which Hackensack was becoming famous, they would sit and ._._._. ." Size: 8vo.

Seller Inventory # 009288

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Another Place at the Table
• Publisher: Creative Bound, Carp
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0921165579
• ISBN 13: 9780921165576
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: B/W Photographs
• Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biography

About this title

Synopsis

In 1911, a thirteen-year-old Mabel Ernestine Lapointe ran from the heartache of her life in an Ottawa tenement house, and set off on a journey that took her to the giddy heights of New York City. Tragic circumstances forced her return to Canada, to a desolate farm in Renfrew County during the Depression years- a place from which she longed to escape. Another Place at the Table is Mabel's story and the story of the farmer who became her husband, offering the young widow and her two children the only sanctuary they could hope for.

This is CBC radio broadcaster, author and storyteller Mary Cook's tribute to the remarkable woman who was her mother.

About the Author

A renowned storyteller and CBC radio broadcaster, Mary Cook has been delighting reading and listening audiences for years with her remembrances of growing up on a family farm during the bittersweet years of the 1930s. She is the recipient of seven Actra awards and is the author of six previously published books, including Liar, Liar, Pants on Fire!and Christmas with Mary Cook: Favourite stories and Recipes.