Childhood
by André Alexis
- Publication
- First published 1997
- ISBNs
- 9780771006678, 9780747544067, 9780889105058
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Until the age of 10, Thomas Macmillan has a sad childhood, abandoned by his mother and living with his grandmother. But when the grandmother dies, the mother takes him to stay with a boyfriend, an eccentric intellectual who introduces Macmillan to the world of the mind and his childhood becomes a joy. A first novel by a Trinidadian-Canadian.
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