An Orange from Portugal - Christmas Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland

Like a genuine Down-East Christmas, An Orange from Portugal is tangy and delicious. Novelty spices tradition, shadows make joy more precious, and laughter is everywhere. Here are stories to savour. Hugh MacLennan's waif hopes Santa will bring him a real orange from Portugal, Alden Nowlan and Harry Bruce give very different versions of the magical transformations in the barn on Christmas Eve, and Rhoda Graser recalls Jewish children hanging up their stockings. Wilfred Grenfell, Bernice Morgan, and Wayne Johnston host a century of parties. Offerings by Alistair MacLeod and David Adams Richards, Joan Clark, and Lisa Moore, Milton Acorn and Lynn Davies make An Orange from Portugal a rare Christmas feast.

About the author

Born in Hants Co., Nova Scotia, in 1933, Alden Nowlan moved to Hartland, New Brunswick, when he was nineteen, and worked on the Hartland Observer as reporter, editor, and general facilitator until he went to Saint John (and the Telegraph Journal) in 1963. In 1968 he was invited to take up the position of Writer-in-Residence at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton. Alden Nowlan died on June 27th, 1983.

Product details

• Authors: Hermenegilde Chiasson, Herménégilde Chiasson, Mark Anthony Jarman, Alistair Macleod, Alden Nowlan, David Richards
• Assisted by: Anne Simpson (Editor)
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2003
• EAN: 9780864923455
• ISBN: 978-0-86492-345-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 216 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 34 g
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature