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Set on the vast panorama of the trackless Canadian prairie, this life-affirming saga brings together 40-year-old virgin Catherine Turnbull and her two decades' worth of shadowy, shameful secrets, and the long-suffering town doctor of Medicine Jaw, Saskatchewan, Kevin MacKevitt.
In this dazzling tour de force of literary skill, Edna Porczeny-Dalrymple creates an even grander major character, the always-changing weather, which she makes a metaphor for life and its challenges.
Rather a Ruby operates on dozens of levels, from the tragic to the comedic, each drawn with consummate skill by an author such as comes along but once in a generation. It will change your life.
About the Author
Edna Porczeny-Dalrymple was born seventy-four years ago in Moose Hat, Saskatchewan while her father, Ferenc Porczeny, a Budapest-born archaeology professor at the University of Flin Flon in Manitoba, was on a dig. Edna's mother, Euphonia Dalrymple, was a Scottish-Canadian from a military family of many generations' standing.
Edna attended, and was graduated from, King Edward VIII High School in Moose Hat, where her intellectual gifts won her a full scholarship to Toronto's prestigious Royal College of Beauty and Hair Design.
She took a two-year sabbatical in 1940, to give aid and comfort to Canadian servicemen returning from World War II. One of them, Herschel Hendershot, became her first of five husbands, all of whom died prematurely of what medical authorities termed “acute chronic postcoital fatigue.”
Between bouts of grief, Ms. Porczeny-Dalrymple earned a degree in English Literature from Juan Peron University in Sin Vegüenza, Argentina, where she lived while recovering from the loss of her fifth husband, Sir Pauncefoot Foxglove, Great Britain's ambassador to Greenland. She took up poetry at that time, first seeing print with her brief bit of whimsy, the oft-quoted poem “Lars.” It is reproduced immediately below.
Lars grew figs in North Kadota;
Ev'ry year he met his quota.
Then, in Nineteen-Sixty-Two,
Lars's figs just never grew.
Now he's a dustman in Toronto.
Ms. Porczeny-Dalrymple lives in an imposing home on the windward shore of Lake Winnipegosis in Manitoba with her German shepherd Helmut, a 28-year-old from Stuttgart.
Rather a Ruby,Edna Porczeny-Dalrymple,Xlibris Corporation,0738830666,Fiction,Fiction - General,General,Humorous
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