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Can I read The Desire of Every Living Thing : a Search for Home on EtoBox?
The Desire of Every Living Thing : a Search for Home by Don Gillmor is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Desire of Every Living Thing : a Search for Home about?
<p>At the age of eighty, Don Gillmor's grandmother let slip the defining secret of her life: her twin sister Jean was not her twin, but her aunt, and her family had emigrated from Scotland to Winnipeg to escape the stigma of her illegitimacy. That revelation set Gillmor off on what seemed at first like the most personal of quests: to track down his ancestors. <i>The Desire of Every Living Thing</i> is also the story of the New World, the story of Winnipeg, the story of this country. Both an evocative family memoir and a brilliant feat of historical imagination, the book's most moving theme is how the discarded past haunts and shapes our lives without us even noticing.</p> <br>
Who reads The Desire of Every Living Thing : a Search for Home?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Don Gillmor
- Publisher
- Toronto: Random House Canada
- Published
- 1970
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780679309772
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Literary Fiction, History, Biography
- Rating
- 3.5 / 5 (11 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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