Village Of The Small Houses: A Memoir Of Sorts
A Autobiography, Nonfiction, Cultural book. I have never been able to fully see the grim humour in growing up with a father who agenda is...
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, 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. 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.
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- Pages: 200 pages
- ISBN: 9781553650218 / 1553650212
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Even if I hadn't been to Fort Vermillion I would have still enjoyed this book. I love small-town memoirs and appreciate the glimpses into the local psyche they offer. I greatly look forward to my next trip to Fort Vermillion.The end of the book left me with a haunting question on my own character: What would I have done? This short memoir of a childhood in one of Canada's northern communities, Fort Vermilion, grabbed me from the first words. The quirky characters who peopled his family and ramshackle community were achingly familiar to me from my own childhood on a scruffy, dead-end street. Ferguson writes of them with loving acceptance. I laughed,... I have never been able to fully see the grim humour in growing up with a father who agenda is himself and not the interests of his family
