At Face Value: The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack/John WhiteMcGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 1 ago 1990 - 264 páginas In a parish register in Ireland, Akenson discovered a record naming an Eliza McCormack White as John's sister. Employing imaginative reconstruction, he proposes that Eliza McCormack, a transvestite prostitute who was in central Canada at the time John White arrived on the Canadian scene, was actually John's sister. Further, he suggests that John White can be best understood by recognizing that he was in fact Eliza! |
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... once : setting down the facts , big and small , and on the same pages and at the same time , writing a novel . Evaluating the fine work of biographer Richard Ellman , Edward Mendelson points out that " any attentive reader may find ...
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... once asked . " Because he is one of ours , " was the reply . In Donegal town , even to a four- year - old , that was explanation enough . Half a dozen times a year a vessel of four hundred tons or Methodist Chapel R.C. Chapel Zion ...
... once asked . " Because he is one of ours , " was the reply . In Donegal town , even to a four- year - old , that was explanation enough . Half a dozen times a year a vessel of four hundred tons or Methodist Chapel R.C. Chapel Zion ...
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At Face Value: The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack and John White Donald Harman Akenson,Don Akenson Vista previa restringida - 1992 |
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