Scorned & Beloved: Dead of Winter Meetings with Canadian Eccentrics
- ISBN-10
- 0676971423
- ISBN-13
- 9780676971422
- Category
- Eccentrics and eccentricities
- Pages
- 339
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1998
- Publisher
- Vintage Canada
- Author
- Bill Richardson
Description
You need only hear the story in its barest outline , as I first did — " and then there was Jerome who was washed up legless on the shore ” – to willingly pick up the hook , lance your own lip , and beg to be reeled in .
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