An Orange From Portugal: Christmas Stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland by Anne Simpson

ISBN: 9780864923455 / 0864923457 - An Orange From Portugal: Christmas stories from the Maritimes and Newfoundland by Anne Simpson. Published by Goose Lane Editions, 2003. Softcover. Used, Good condition. 240 pp.

It's often said that the main export of the Maritimes is Maritimers, and the same is true of Newfoundland. "Going down the road" is a way of life, but so is coming home for Christmas. It is tradition marked by happiness, fun, and sometimes less comfortable emotions. Given the regional penchant for yarn spinning, this common experience yields an abundance of stories.

In An Orange from Portugal, editor Anne Simpson takes liberties with the concept of "story" to produce a book bursting with Christmas flavour. Many of her choices are fiction, others are memoirs, tall tales, poems, or essays, and still others defy classification. Some authors are nationally and even internationally famous, some are well known in the region, and others are published here for the first time.

An Orange from Portugal is a Christmas feast, with the scent of turkey and the sound of laughter wafting from the kitchen, and a flurry of snow outside the window.

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