Once Upon an Effing Time : A Novel
(Book)
Author
Published
Madeira Park : Douglas & McIntyre, 2024.
Format
Book
ISBN
9781771623605 :
Physical Desc
320 pages
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Location | Call Number | Status | Due Date |
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Exeter - Display | CRAM | Checked Out | June 18, 2024 |
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Published
Madeira Park : Douglas & McIntyre, 2024.
Language
English
ISBN
9781771623605 :
Notes
Description
A quirky, thrilling, darkly-funny page-turner that explores the fuzzy lines between sanity and insanity, magic and reality, love and duty. It's 1969. An eight-year-old girl, Elizabeth Squire, has a choice to make: to be disabled by the circumstances of her own botched birth or to become extraordinary. In Buffy Cram's captivating new novel, Elizabeth narrates the story of her childhood in the late sixties, describing how she came to be at a Vancouver halfway house at the age of nineteen. Once Upon an Effing Time chronicles the sometimes-exploitative relationship between Elizabeth and Margaret, her mother, and the bizarre and criminal misadventures they have after running away from Ontario's cheese belt and their "Big Sad Story." Attempting to bond with her neglectful mother, Elizabeth learns to adopt personas and live multiple lives, transforms into a fortune teller named MeMe who speaks primarily in Bob Dylan lyrics, and joins an American hippie doomsday cult. Elizabeth's life is fragmented between ordinary childhood pleasures and indulging her mother's conspiracy theories about the upcoming moon landing by hiding pamphlets in New York City Public Library books. Throughout, Buffy Cram weaves humour and heartbreak together to form an engaging narrative about cults-the cult of family, the cult of counterculture, the cult of rock 'n' roll-and the role of story within those cults.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Cram, B. (2024). Once Upon an Effing Time: A Novel . Douglas & McIntyre.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Cram, Buffy. 2024. Once Upon an Effing Time: A Novel. Douglas & McIntyre.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Cram, Buffy. Once Upon an Effing Time: A Novel Douglas & McIntyre, 2024.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Cram, Buffy. Once Upon an Effing Time: A Novel Douglas & McIntyre, 2024.
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