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A Large Harmonium

1 Aug 2011

Janey knows she should be trying to put her academic career on the map, but how? She'll more readily poke fun at than engage in yet another overly dry and theoretical conference. And her husband and their friends simply encourage her off the serious academic path, providing anarchic ideas from Foucault-in-snowsuits to erotic poetry addressed to the harmonium collecting dust in the music department. A Large Harmonium is a sharply comical year-in-the-gloriously-unruly- life story. We follow Janey as she negotiates motherhood (“Little Max is a Roald Dahl story, I decide”); career (“the whole enterprise starts to resemble a lion-taming act without the lions”); frightful in-laws (“At breakfast, the two of them are serene and fit-looking. I never can see how people look like that in the morning”); and which literary hero her husband Hector most resembles (“Rochester! Why should I be Rochester? He's a bastard. And he has to be blinded and lose an arm or something before he can be tamed.”) Along the way, she relies on Hector, boy-wonder babysitter Rene, and even crazy unreliable friend Jam. And on Jake, the understanding minister who helps her pick her way through it all.
motherhood families humor canadian wit and humor

Authors

Sue Sorensen

Control Number Identifier
CaOOCEL
Dewey Decimal Classification Number
C813/.6
Dewey Decimal Edition Number
23
General Note
Edited by David Carpenter"--T.p. verso Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
ISBN
9781550504606 9781550504972
LCCN
PR9199.4.S6988
LCCN Item number
L37 2011eb
Modifying agency
CaBNVSL
Original cataloging agency
CaOONL
Physical Description | Extent
1 electronic text (216 p.)
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CaOOCEL
Rights
Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
System Control Number
(CaBNVSL)slc00228703 (OCoLC)793385372 (CaOOCEL)443612
System Details Note
Mode of access: World Wide Web
Transcribing agency
CaOONL

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