Add this copy of The Boys: Or, Waiting for the Electricians Daughter to cart. $7.80, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Atlanta rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Austell, GA, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Gaspereau Press.
Add this copy of The Boys: Or, Waiting for the Electrician's Daughter to cart. $15.00, very good condition, Sold by Heroes Bookshop rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Lubbock, TX, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Gaspereau Pr.
Add this copy of The Boys: Or, Waiting for the Electrician's Daughter to cart. $16.99, very good condition, Sold by The Book Scouts rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Hamilton, ON, CANADA, published 2005 by Gaspereau Pr.
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Near Fine in Near Fine jacket. Size: 8x5x0; We're happy to combine shipping to save you some money. We're also always buying collectible book collections. Contact us for details. We're happy to provide pictures of any and all books for you, please just ask! Canadian Soft Covered first edition, first printing. Contains number line 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9. Covers are clean and bright. Edges are sharp. No tears or creases. The book itself is in Near Fine condition. The binding is straight and tight. NO remainder mark.
Add this copy of The Boys Or, Waiting for the Electrician's Daughter to cart. $19.51, good condition, Sold by Hockley Books, ships from Palgrave, ON, CANADA, published 2005 by Gaspereau Press.
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Good in Very Good jacket. Book is black card covered. D.J. is also card and is white with 3 coloured outlines of figues over the red title The first inside blank page has been razored out. The rest of the book is intact and clean and nice.
Add this copy of The Boys: Or, Waiting for the Electrician's Daughter to cart. $21.95, like new condition, Sold by Judith Patton rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Burlington, ON, CANADA, published 2005 by Gaspereau Pr.
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New. Prognosis varies. Duchenne's muscular dystrophy generally strikes during childhood and results in death within 10 to 15 years of onset. Death commonly results from sudden heart failure, respiratory failure, or infection. John Terpstra, a poet and carpenter, married Mary Ann, the electrician's daughter. Her three younger brothers, Neil, Eric, and Paul, were all stricken with the disease. The parents, Corey ('Boss') the electrician, and his wife Fran ('Mumphy') took what was given them and created a home for this family-a backbreaking labor almost impossible to imagine. This book is John Terpstra's memoir of a family's life together. It is a memoir in poet's terms, each sentence bearing the weight of a paragraph, each paragraph a book. It is written with great beauty and reverence, yet sparely: the author never forces emotion on you. His subjects wouldn't have wanted it. They lived normal, even joyful, lives, within an extended family and community of care marked by understated heroism, and within the bounds of the extraordinary suffering they endured, nearly without remark. God is questioned, but never cursed: Would it be correct to say that you made them that way, that is to say, diseased? I have no problem saying that you made them. Do we say then, that you made them as they were, that there is a divine image that they, their bodies, made manifest? There was nothing lovely in their disease. Read: you make all things lovely. Yet a loveliness of spirit and of flesh was upon them. There was nothing desirable in what their disease did to their lives. Yet their lives attracted. The Boys died within six months of one another: the youngest, first; the oldest, last. Their brother-in-law has rendered enough of their exuberant or quiet natures to give you a sense of the loss and to concur with his dismissal of the well-meant condolences, 'It's better this way, ' 'He's in a better place. ' Of the Boys, he just says, They are beautiful. And of the family, They were saints. Are. 144 pp.
Add this copy of The Boys: Or, Waiting for the Electrician's Daughter to cart. $77.37, new condition, Sold by GridFreed rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from North Las Vegas, NV, UNITED STATES, published 2005 by Gaspereau Pr.
