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  Vandal Love

  Author: Béchard, Deni Y.

  Date: 2012 (2006, Canada edition)

  Publication: Milkweed Editions

  Language : en

  Source : Preview

  Find in a library: 758646813

  Novel tracing a century of Québec's Hervé family in the United States and Canada, and the genetic conditions that have turned its offspring "alternately [into] brutes or runts" (4). Jude the emigrant boxer in 1960s Georgia and Louisiana, and Isa, his abandoned daughter, into Virginia and Maine. Georgianne and the runt orphaned grandchild, François, from Québec across the Canadian provinces in the middle 20th century; Harvey, his son, and the parental separation that removes one from the other. Harvey's personal spiritual quest across the American Southwest. The tragedy and genealogical loops that unify the characters and their movements through time across North America.

  Tags Alberta, Alcohol and Drugs, British Columbia, Family, Georgia, Immigration, Lewiston ME, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Fiction, Louisiana, Maine, Manitoba, Montréal QC, New England, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ontario, Québec, Saskatchewan, Vancouver BC, Violence, Virginia
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  Vandal Love

  Author: Béchard, Deni Y.

  Date: 2012 (2006, Canada edition)

  Publication: Milkweed Editions (originally published by Doubleday)

  Language : en

  Source : Preview

  Find in a library: 758646813

  Novel tracing a century of Québec's Hervé family in the United States and Canada, and the genetic conditions that have turned its offspring "alternately [into] brutes or runts" (4). Jude the emigrant boxer in 1960s Georgia and Louisiana, and Isa, his abandoned daughter, into Virginia and Maine. Georgianne and the runt orphaned grandchild, François, from Québec across the Canadian provinces in the middle 20th century; Harvey, his son, and the parental separation that removes one from the other. Harvey's personal spiritual quest across the American Southwest. The tragedy and genealogical loops that unify the characters and their movements through time across North America.

  Tags Alberta, Alcohol and Drugs, British Columbia, Family, Georgia, Immigration, Lewiston ME, Literary Works, Literary Works -- Fiction, Louisiana, Maine, Manitoba, Montréal QC, New England, New Jersey, New Mexico, Ontario, Québec, Saskatchewan, Vancouver BC, Violence, Virginia
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  Seamless Hosiery Industry of Laconia, New Hampshire

  Author: Carls, J. Norman

  Date: 1937-04-00

  Language : en

  Find in a library: 1567395

  Article describing the state of hosiery mills in Laconia, New Hampshire in the late 1930s: obstacles to effective production, descriptions of economic advantages, suggestions for improvement. Historical background from the origins of the first Laconia hosiery in 1847. Mill closures beginning in 1923: their causes and some of their impacts. Current 1930s industrial competition between Laconia mills and similar producers in Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern states: Pennsylvania, Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee. Includes black and white photographs.

  Tags Belmont NH, Binghamton NY, Blackstone River Valley, Franklin NH, Georgia, Hillsboro NH, Laconia NH, Lake Winnipesaukee NH, Merrimack River Valley, New England, New Hampshire, Nonfiction, Nonfiction -- Geography, Nonfiction -- History, Nonfiction -- History -- Economic and Industrial, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Tilton NH