Author

Publication

2011 - McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, Ontario

Language

English

Word Count

76,500 words, Guess

Page Count

306 pages

Identifiers

and 1 more

Classifications

  • DDCC813/.54
  • LCCPR9199.3.H3676 A796 2011
  • LCCPS8000

Description

"In a small prairie school in 1929, Connie Flood helps a backward student, Michael Graves, learn how to read. Observing them and darkening their lives is the principal, Parley Burns, whose strange behaviour culminates in an attack so disturbing its repercussions continue to the present day.

Description

"In a small prairie school in 1929, Connie Flood helps a backward student, Michael Graves, learn how to read. Observing them and darkening their lives is the principal, Parley Burns, whose strange behaviour culminates in an attack so disturbing its repercussions continue to the present day. Connie's niece, Anne, tells the story. Impelled by curiosity about her dynamic, adventurous aunt and her more conventional mother, she revisits Connie's past and her mother's broken childhood. In the process, she unravels the enigma of Parley Burns and the mysterious (and unrelated) deaths of two young girls.--"BOOK JACKET.

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Other Editions

  • Alone in the classroomMcClelland & Stewart2011-01-01

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