A coming of age story about Roddie Gillies and his guardian and grandfather Calum, who is one of the last remaining Gaelic speakers in the once-proud mining town of Shean.
A quiet and stoic man, Calum Gillies and his aging friends illuminate for us the changing world around them: the loss of the coal mines, the labour strife and lean years endured, the religious parochialism that divides families and communities and, most important, a disappearing language. The setting is Cape Breton; the themes of cultural and rural change and decline are universal.
Authors
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Date published
- 2016.
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- C813/.54
- Dewey Decimal Edition Number
- 23
- Distributor
- Canadian Electronic Library (Firm),
- General Note
- Originally published: 2005 Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn-ns
- ISBN
- 9781927492079 9781897009635
- LCCN
- PR9199.4.M3226
- LCCN Item number
- F67 2011eb
- Modifying agency
- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaOONL
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (413 pages)
- Published in
- Ottawa, Ontario
- Publisher or Distributor Number
- CaOOCEL
- Rights
- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
- System Control Number
- (CaBNVSL)kck00236740 (OCoLC)953628759 (CaOOCEL)451620
- System Details Note
- Mode of access: World Wide Web
- Transcribing agency
- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Cover 1
- Title Page 2
- Copyright Notice 3
- Dedication 4
- 1 6
- 2 12
- 3 21
- 4 30
- 5 42
- 6 51
- 7 65
- 8 73
- 9 81
- 10 89
- 11 97
- 12 106
- 13 114
- 14 123
- 15 131
- 16 139
- 17 149
- 18 158
- 19 167
- 20 180
- 21 188
- 22 196
- 23 209
- 24 219
- 25 225
- 26 233
- 27 243
- 28 254
- 29 265
- 30 273
- 31 283
- 32 293
- 33 301
- 34 308
- 35 319
- 36 328
- 37 338
- 38 350
- 39 358
- 40 366
- 41 373
- 42 380
- 43 387
- 44 394
- 45 402
- 46 408
- About the Author 416
- Praise for A Forest for Calum 417
