The Second Season of Jonas McPherson [Mass Market Paperback]

Lesley Choyce (Author)

Book Description

Set on the East Coast, and focusing on sixty-nine year old Jonas, this novel reflects the title character’s energy, rage and humour as he looks upon his world, past and present, and is filled with memorable characters, adventures, and a pervading rugged gentleness.

This crically-acclaimed novel is an excellent choice for Canadian Studies and courses that investigate themes of maturity and old age.

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About the Author

LESLEY CHOYCE is a novelist and poet living at Lawrencetown Beach in Nova Scotia. A former grand champion of the Men's Open Canadian National Surfing Championships, he surfs on the Atlantic coast year-round, along with running a literary publishing house and teaching English at Dalhousie University. He also has a regular nationally-broadcast program on Vision TV called "Off the Page with Lesley Choyce." He is the author of more than fifty books of poetry, fiction and non-fiction for adults and children, including "Carrie's Crowd" and "Go For It Carrie." His writing has earned him several awards, including two Dartmouth Book Awards and the Ann Connor Brimer Award for the Young Adult novel "Good Idea Gone Bad". Five of his previous Formac novels have received the Canadian Children's Book Centre's "Our Choice" Award. "The Ottawa Citizen" calls him "a national treasure."

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Thistledown Press; 1 edition (September 19, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1895449057
• ISBN-13: 978-1895449051
• Product Dimensions: 6.5 x 4.9 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.5 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,031,244 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)