| Island Sketchbook |
| Frank Ledwell With illustrations by Danny Ledwell |
In Island Sketchbook, Prince Edward Island raconteur Frank
Ledwell gives readers prose sketches of Island characters,
anecdotes, and traditions that are richly rooted in the oral
culture of the Island. Like any sketches, Frank Ledwell's
keenly observed stories and vignettes lend artfulness to the
everyday, giving shape to the scenes laid out in front of us that
we might not notice until we have a pen in hand and a sense of
purpose.
With characteristic warmth, generosity, and humour, Ledwell
seamlessly weaves personal memoir and communal folk
wisdom. Some of the 60-some stories are based on real people
or incidents; others are fictionalized. But whether fact or
fiction, there is no doubt that the stories evoke the true,
remembered landscape of Ledwell's childhood at St. Peter's
Bay on the North Shore of Prince Edward Island, his
experience as a student, teacher, and professor at St.
Dunstan's University, and his later life as a professor,
husband, and parent in rural Queen's County, Prince Edward
Island. The sketches also evoke the author's love of people
and place and mark his point of view as that of an inveterate
Islander.
Ledwell gives readers prose sketches of Island characters,
anecdotes, and traditions that are richly rooted in the oral
culture of the Island. Like any sketches, Frank Ledwell's
keenly observed stories and vignettes lend artfulness to the
everyday, giving shape to the scenes laid out in front of us that
we might not notice until we have a pen in hand and a sense of
purpose.
With characteristic warmth, generosity, and humour, Ledwell
seamlessly weaves personal memoir and communal folk
wisdom. Some of the 60-some stories are based on real people
or incidents; others are fictionalized. But whether fact or
fiction, there is no doubt that the stories evoke the true,
remembered landscape of Ledwell's childhood at St. Peter's
Bay on the North Shore of Prince Edward Island, his
experience as a student, teacher, and professor at St.
Dunstan's University, and his later life as a professor,
husband, and parent in rural Queen's County, Prince Edward
Island. The sketches also evoke the author's love of people
and place and mark his point of view as that of an inveterate
Islander.
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_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ ABOUT THE AUTHOR Frank Ledwell |
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