Circumnavigating Father

by Hugh Palmer

Overview

England is renowned for having enshrined in literature so many of her Victorian eccentrics, a number of them dominating fathers. This novel is a Canadian contribution to this tradition, but lighter-hearted than most. This family portrait of crusty, opinionated, possible, yet comical man, is developed n a series of witty, ironic and, and at times, tender anecdotes of family life in Vancouver's West End during the teens and twenties. It is also, in an unusually palatable form, a contribution to the social history of Vancouver, especially that once well-heeled district wedged between the downtown business section and Stanley Park.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780888392350
Publisher:	Hancock House Publishers
Publication date:	01/01/1990
Pages:	176
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.37(d)

About the Author

The son of a pioneer Vancouver family--lawyer, naval officer, television executive, senior arts administrator and, latterly, author--Hugh Palmer states that one purpose for writing Circumnavigating Father has been to provide the reader with a book that he or she may open up and read--with a smile or a chuckle--at any place and at any time.

Table of Contents

Preface	7
Broken Idyll	9
A Symbol of Progress	12
Making a Man of Him	21
Aunt May	26
The Vigorous Life	35
Family Budgeting	42
The River Road	49
The Farmer	53
Saturdays	61
Sundays	70
In Sickness and in Health	80
The Cultural Life	89
The Odd Mosquito	95
I'll Never Forget What's His Name	99
The Right Pew	102
The Human Fly	107
Miss Cooper	111
The Dog That Laughed	118
Father's Name	125
The Servant Problem	128
Penmanship	135
Gold Fever	139
A Litigious Matter	145
Father and the House of Ill-fame	156
Oh, that Pooley	161
Sweet Charity	168