Heather O'Neill
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A spellbinding story about two girls whose friendship is so intense it not only threatens to destroy them, it changes the trajectory of history.
Marie Antoine is the charismatic, spoiled daughter of a sugar baron. At 12 years old, with her blond curls and her unparalleled sense of whimsey, she’s the leader of all the children in the Golden Mile, an affluent strip of 19th century Montreal. Until one day in 1873, when Sadie Arnett, dark-haired, sly,...
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Two babies are abandoned in a Montreal orphanage in the winter of 1910. Pierrot is a piano prodigy. Rose lights up even the dreariest room with her dancing and comedy. The children fall in love and dream up a plan for the most extraordinary and seductive circus show the world has ever seen. After being separated as teenagers, Rose and Pierrot finally reunite and the possibilities of their childhood dreams are renewed. With extraordinary storytelling,...
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Heather O'Neill dazzles with a first novel of extraordinary prescience and power, a subtly understated yet searingly effective story of a young life on the streets-and the strength, wits, and luck necessary for survival. At thirteen, Baby vacillates between childhood comforts and adult temptation: still young enough to drag her dolls around in a vinyl suitcase yet old enough to know more than she should about urban cruelties. Motherless, she lives...
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Gorgeous twins Noushcka and Nicolas Tremblay live with their grandfather Loulou in a tiny, sordid apartment on St. Laurent Boulevard. They are hopelessly promiscuous, wildly funny, and infectiously charming. On the eve of their twentieth birthday, the twins' self-destructive shenanigans catch up with them when Noushcka agrees to be beauty queen in the local St. Jean Baptiste Day parade. The media spotlight returns, and the attention of a relentless...
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Heather O'Neill's distinctive style and voice fill these charming, sometimes dark, always beguiling stories. Also included in the collection is "The End of Pinky," which has been made into short film by the NFB. With this collection, Heather O'Neill showcases her diversity and skill as a writer and draws us in with each page.
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With generosity and wry humour, novelist Heather O'Neill recalls several key lessons she learned in childhood from her father: memories and stories about how crime does pay, why one should never keep a diary, and that it is good to beware of clowns, among other things. Her father and his eccentric friends-ex-bank robbers and homeless men-taught her that everything she did was important, a belief that she has carried through her life. O'Neill's intimate...