The Divine Ryans - Softcover

Johnston, Wayne

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ISBN 10: 0676971849 ISBN 13: 9780676971842

Publisher: Vintage Canada, 1998

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In this beloved, bestselling novel which has been unavailable for some time, young Draper Doyle Ryan tries to come to terms with the mysterious death of his father as he struggles, in touching, comic fashion, with budding adolescence and the strange demands of his proudly eccentric family.

When first published in 1990, The Divine Ryans received unanimous critical praise and won the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Award; Wayne Johnston himself was hailed as one of Canada's most distinctive comic talents.

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Draper Doyle Ryan is a boy in sixties Newfoundland. His relatives, proudly eccentric and passionately Catholic, run a rather shabby newspaper, a funeral home, a convent and an orphanage. His Uncle Seymour wants to teach him to box and to sing; his Uncle Reginald is giving him therapy sessions twice a week. Draper Doyle just wants to know what's up with these strange dreams he's been having - and why the ghost of his father keeps appearing to him, tossing a hockey puck in the air.

About the Author:

Wayne Johnston is the author of four other novels, including The Story of Bobby O'Malley and The Colony of Unrequited Dreams (Doubleday). Born and raised in Newfoundland, he now lives in Toronto.
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