The Resource The heaviness of things that float, Jennifer Manuel
The heaviness of things that float, Jennifer Manuel
Resource Information
The item The heaviness of things that float, Jennifer Manuel represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library.This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches.
Resource Information
The item The heaviness of things that float, Jennifer Manuel represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Vancouver Public Library.
This item is available to borrow from 5 library branches.
- Summary
- Depicts the lonely world of Bernadette, a woman who has spent the last forty years living alone on the periphery of a remote West Coast First Nations reserve, serving as a nurse for the community. Only weeks from retirement, Bernadette finds herself unsettled, with no immediate family of her own. And then a shocking announcement crackles over the VHF radio of the remote medical outpost: Chase Charlie, the young man that Bernadette loves like a son, is missing
- Language
- eng
- Label
- The heaviness of things that float
- Title
- The heaviness of things that float
- Statement of responsibility
- Jennifer Manuel
- Subject
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- Vancouver Island (B.C.) -- Fiction
- Loneliness in women -- Fiction
- Indian reservations -- British Columbia -- Fiction
- Electronic books
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Indigenous peoples -- British Columbia -- Fiction
- Nurses -- Fiction
- Indians of North America -- British Columbia -- Fiction
- Canadian fiction
- Older women -- Fiction
- Nootka Indians -- Fiction
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Depicts the lonely world of Bernadette, a woman who has spent the last forty years living alone on the periphery of a remote West Coast First Nations reserve, serving as a nurse for the community. Only weeks from retirement, Bernadette finds herself unsettled, with no immediate family of her own. And then a shocking announcement crackles over the VHF radio of the remote medical outpost: Chase Charlie, the young man that Bernadette loves like a son, is missing
- Cataloging source
- NLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Manuel, Jennifer
- Dewey number
- C813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- novels
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Indian reservations
- Indians of North America
- Indigenous peoples
- Loneliness in women
- Missing persons
- Nootka Indians
- Nurses
- Older women
- Vancouver Island (B.C.)
- Label
- The heaviness of things that float, Jennifer Manuel
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 292 pages
- Isbn
- 9781771620871
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
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- ocn944379780
- (OCoLC)944379780
- Label
- The heaviness of things that float, Jennifer Manuel
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- 292 pages
- Isbn
- 9781771620871
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- n
- System control number
-
- ocn944379780
- (OCoLC)944379780
Subject
- Canadian fiction
- Electronic books
- Indian reservations -- British Columbia -- Fiction
- Indians of North America -- British Columbia -- Fiction
- Indigenous peoples -- British Columbia -- Fiction
- Loneliness in women -- Fiction
- Missing persons -- Fiction
- Nootka Indians -- Fiction
- Nurses -- Fiction
- Older women -- Fiction
- Vancouver Island (B.C.) -- Fiction
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Library Locations
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Vancouver Public Library - Central Branch Borrow it350 West Georgia Street, Vancouver, BC, V6B 6B1, CA49.280188 -123.114755
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