Gifts to Last Christmas Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland Tapa blanda - 1997

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Christmas glittering in silver and gold, Christmas on a shoestring, Christmas wrecked, Christmas salvaged, Christmas sentimental and Christmas sardonic, Christmas in city, country and village, in church and shopping mall and barn -- it's all here, in stories by the region's finest writers.Walter Learning's Christmas treat opens with an old-fashioned story, the first chapter of the novel version of Gordon Pinsent's TV show A Gift to Last. Antonine Maillet's The Fine Christmas of Ti-Louis, a chapter from The Devil is Loose (Crache a Pic), goes back to an olden days Christmas, too -- a 1920s Acadian Christmas among the rum-runners. Harry Thurston finds The Perfect Tree, first as a child and then as a father, and, in Nutbeam's Christmas, Herb Curtis makes readers laugh and cry at the same time. M.T Dohaney's new story, Mr. Eaton's, Only What I Ordered Please, looks as if it will end in tears, but never fear -- all turns out well in the end. Seasoned by Ray Guy's newspaper columns and Joe Sherman's account of a Jewish child's Christmas in Cape Breton, Gifts to Last is warm-hearted but never sappy -- just like Walter himself.