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Emancipation Day

Emancipation Day( )
Author: Grady, Wayne
Grady, Wayne
ISBN:978-0-385-67768-4
Publication Date:Nov 2014
Publisher:Doubleday Canada
Imprint:Anchor Canada
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $14.95
Book Description:

"Grady's novel reads with the velvety tempo of the jazz music of its day. . . . Grady fearlessly explores heated race relations and the masks we all assume." --Chatelaine With his curly black hair and his wicked grin, everyone swoons and thinks of Frank Sinatra when Navy musician Jackson Lewis takes the stage. It's World War II, and while stationed in St. John's, Newfoundland, Jack meets the well-heeled Vivian Clift, a local girl who has never stepped off the...
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Book Details
Pages:336
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.2 x 8 x 0.9 Inches
Book Weight:0.66 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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