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Breakfast at the Exit Cafe

Travels Through America

Breakfast at the Exit Cafe( )
Author: Grady, Wayne
Simonds, Merilyn
ISBN:978-1-55365-826-9
Publication Date:Aug 2011
Publisher:Greystone Books Ltd.
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $16.95
Book Description:

Breakfast at the Exit Cafébegins as a personal story, told in alternating voices by two veteran writer/travelers, of a road trip from British Columbia around the rim of the United States. For Grady, whose forebears were slaves who came to Canada in the 1870s, it becomes a journey through fear of racism and violence into his own family roots in the American Deep South. For Simonds, who grew up a lonely Canadian in the American School of Campinas, Brizil, it becomes a journey...
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Book Details
Pages:256
Detailed Subjects: Travel / United States / General
Travel / Essays & Travelogues
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 x 1 Inches
Book Weight:1.094 Pounds
Author Biography
Grady, Wayne (Author)
Wayne Grady was born in 1948 in Windsor, Ontario. He attended Carleton University where he earned a B.A. in English. He is a freelance magazine writer and author of several books. He is the former editor of Harrowsmith magazine. He has also translated several French novels into English.

He has been shortlisted for the Toronto Book Award and the Governor General's Award for Translation, for Black Squirrel, by Daniel Poliquin. He received the Governor General's Award for Translation, for On the Eighth Day, by Antoine Maillet and John Glassco Prize for Literary Translation, for Christopher Cartier of Hazelnut, by Antoine Maillet.

He lives in Kingston, Ontario.

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