Village of the small houses [CD] / a memoir of sorts / written and narrated by Ian Ferguson.

By:

Ferguson, Ian, 1959-

Material type: Sound

SoundPublication details: Fredericton, N.B. : BTC Audiobooks, [2005?]Edition: AbridgedDescription: 2 compact discs (2 h, 30 min) : digital ; 12 cmISBN:

0864923953

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

C818/.603 22

Summary: Ian Ferguson won the 2004 Leacock Medal for Humor for this outrageously funny book about growing up destitute in the far north. Beginning with the dramatic events surrounding his birth (including a paddlewheel ferry heading for destruction, a legendary rowboat trip, and a life-and-death race against time), the richly recalled events of Ferguson’s life and a vivid cast of loveable misfits make for a taut and appealingly idiosyncratic tale. In 1959, just one step ahead of the law, Hank Ferguson (the Ferguson brothers’ con-artist dad” headed north in a beat-up two-toned 1953 Mercury Zephyr with his pregnant wife, Louise. He got as far as remote Fort Vermilion. Passing himself off as a teacher at the local “Indian school,” he settled his ever-expanding family in what was then Canada’s third poorest community — an isolated aboriginal village where plumbing and electricity were unheard of and luck seemed reserved for Whites only. In this spirited reading, originally broadcast on CBC Radio in September 2004, Ian Ferguson’s gifts as a comic actor rise exuberantly to the fore. Winner of an Audiophile Earphones Award, mixing truth and fiction with feckless abandon, Village of the Small Houses exists somewhere between Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes and W. O. Mitchell’s Who Has Seen the Wind.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Audiobook	West Grey Durham Branch Shelves	CD 921 FER (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		35830002089547

Total holds: 0

Narrated by the author.

Text originally published: Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, 2003.

Ian Ferguson won the 2004 Leacock Medal for Humor for this outrageously funny book about growing up destitute in the far north. Beginning with the dramatic events surrounding his birth (including a paddlewheel ferry heading for destruction, a legendary rowboat trip, and a life-and-death race against time), the richly recalled events of Ferguson’s life and a vivid cast of loveable misfits make for a taut and appealingly idiosyncratic tale. In 1959, just one step ahead of the law, Hank Ferguson (the Ferguson brothers’ con-artist dad” headed north in a beat-up two-toned 1953 Mercury Zephyr with his pregnant wife, Louise. He got as far as remote Fort Vermilion. Passing himself off as a teacher at the local “Indian school,” he settled his ever-expanding family in what was then Canada’s third poorest community — an isolated aboriginal village where plumbing and electricity were unheard of and luck seemed reserved for Whites only. In this spirited reading, originally broadcast on CBC Radio in September 2004, Ian Ferguson’s gifts as a comic actor rise exuberantly to the fore. Winner of an Audiophile Earphones Award, mixing truth and fiction with feckless abandon, Village of the Small Houses exists somewhere between Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes and W. O. Mitchell’s Who Has Seen the Wind.

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