02464nam 22003853 450 991015025170332120230808200515.00-88971-088-0(CKB)3710000000942181(MiAaPQ)EBC6862738(Au-PeEL)EBL6862738(OCoLC)1293249653(EXLCZ)99371000000094218120220207d2016 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierWigford RememberiesLa Vergne :Harbour Publishing Co. Ltd.,2016.©2016.1 online resource (111 pages)0-88971-319-7 Intro -- Gentle Mighty Hands -- The Hole -- A Man Who Really Could See -- Happy Henry -- Come All Ye Young Lovers (I) -- Come All Ye Young Lovers (II) -- Come All Ye Young Lovers (III) -- David Crowe -- Heaven's Golden Mansion -- Nightsong -- Then Again What -- An Awful Thing -- About the Author.Wigford is a small town in rural Southwestern Ontario, home to a cast of recurring characters: Buzz, a drunk-driving father of two; his wife, who should have married Bert Walmsley instead; Happy Henry, a devout, socially inept apostle who loves to play the organ; Elmer, a stroke survivor. Wigford Rememberies tells this community's stories through an impressionistic series of vignettes. The language is inventive, innovative and exciting, and whether describing mucking out the pig barn—“there in the dust and the sweet smells of grain and straw and the heavy brown odour of shit so strong it makes you sneeze"—or helping a drunk articulate how to manipulate God's forgiveness—“‘if I gave my heart to Jesus—right there on my deathbed the minute before I died—he'd forgive everything an I'd go up into Heaven and be saved just as much as the other guy who never did nothin' wrong at all with no difference?'"—Harness wields words with an eye for detail, musicality and style. Visceral, reflective and lyrical, Wigford Rememberies is a poetic evocation of mood and epiphanic realizations, and will resonate with anyone who has ever confronted suffering, love or the unknowable.C813/.6Harness Kyp1075927MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910150251703321Wigford Rememberies2585825UNINA