Set in the Prairie backwater of Shelby, Alberta, seasoned reporter and minor television celebrity David Lang arrives to write a magazine feature on the town’s oldest living citizen, the 111-year-old curmudgeon Daddy Sherry. Still recovering from the disappointments of a fatherless childhood, the uptight David just wants to file his story as quickly as possible and hightail it back to Toronto. But he hasn’t reckoned on the cantankerous cunning of Daddy Sherry. As David chases his recalcitrant subject all over town, he begins to understand the meaning of life and finds love and happiness for the first time. This never-before-published edition of the novel in audio format features Mitchell’s own reading. It also introduces a whole new generation of readers to the rampaging Daddy Sherry, a holy terror whom Margaret Laurence considered to be Mitchell’s “best and most complete character.”
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When David Lang arrives in a prairie backwater to write a magazine profile of the town’s oldest citizen, he has no idea what he’s up against. The uptight reporter merely wants to file his story as quickly as possible and hightail it back to the big city. But he hasn’t reckoned on the cantankerous cunning of Daddy Sherry. Moody, conniving, and stubbornly alive in every sinew of his 111-year-old body, Daddy Sherry is one of W.O. Mitchell’s finest — and most hilarious — creations. He leads David on a journalistic wild goose chase that drags on for weeks and results in epiphanies for both men. This delightful archival recording, narrated by the author himself, combines a sly satire of the publishing world with gentle insights into the human heart.
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W.O. Mitchell is one of the most recognized Canadian authors of the last century. He was born in Weyburn, Saskatchewan in 1914, and during a varied career he was everything from a Depression hobo to the fiction editor of Maclean’s. His best-loved book, Who Has Seen the Wind ?�) is hailed as the quintessential Canadian coming-of-age novel. Other works include Jake and the Kid ?�), The Kite ?�), The Vanishing Point ?�), How I Spent My Summer Holidays ?�), Since Daisy Creek ?�), Ladybug, Ladybug ?�), According to Jake and the Kid ?�), Roses are Difficult Here ?�), For Ark's Sake ?�), An Evening with W.O. Mitchell ?�) and the play The Black Bonspiel of Wullie MacCrimmon ?�). He won the Leacock Medal for Humour for Jake and the Kid and again for According to Jake and the Kid. Mitchell was made an officer in the Order of Canada in 1973 and has been the subject of an NFB documentary entitled W.O. Mitchell: A Novelist in Hiding.
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