Childhood(English, Paperback, Alexis Andre)

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Childhood(English, Paperback, Alexis Andre) is written by Alexis Andre and published by McClelland & Stewart Inc.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0771006675 (ISBN 10) and 9780771006678 (ISBN 13).

Uniquely imagined and vividly evoked, André Alexis’s prize-winning novel chronicles the childhood – or perhaps the loss of childhood – of Thomas MacMillan, who sets out to piece together the early years of his life. Raised in a Southern Ontario town in the ’50s and ’60s, Thomas is abandoned to the care of his eccentric Trinidadian grandmother. Then, at ten, his mother, Katarina, reclaims him, taking him to Ottawa and to the once-splendid Victorian home of Henry Wing, a gentle conjurer whose love of science and the imagination becomes an important legacy. But is he Thomas’s father? Moving and wryly humorous, Childhood tells the story of a man’s quest for what is lost, bringing him closer to the truth about himself.