Writers' confessions II, episode 10
- MS-2-753, Box 14, Folder 2, Item 2
- Item
- March 2006
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Writers' confessions II, episode 10
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
What they wanted : [typescript draft]
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
What they wanted : [manuscript]
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Subseries contains drafts in both electronic and hardcopy form of the novel What They Wanted by Donna Morrissey. Early drafts are titled Darkling Sea, Christ Child, and Leaving. What They Wanted explores both new and familiar terrain: a divided house on the shores of Newfoundland and the equally challenging environment of an Alberta oil rig. After Sylvanus has a heart attack, family tensions rise to the fore. Sylvie must deal with her feelings of estrangement from her mother, Addie. Meanwhile, Chris, a natural artist, frustrates his dreams by going to work on the rig. What They Wanted is a novel about guilt, responsibility, tragedy, and the enduring ties of family.
This novel is the second in the Sylvanus Now trilogy and was shortlisted for the 2009 Atlantic Independent Booksellers' Choice Award.
Upon Being Rejected for the Commonwealth [electronic resource]
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Untitled/Unedited First Pages of New Novel [electronic resource]
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Untitled/Unedited First Pages of New Novel [electronic resource]
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Untitled/Unedited First Pages of New Novel [electronic resource]
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Untitled/Unedited First Pages of New Novel [electronic resource]
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Typescript draft of chapter one
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Two letters regarding the completed draft of Downhill Chance
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
TVO more to life : Donna Morrissey, seg. #2
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
This Broken Moment : [typescript draft of chapter one with handwritten comments]
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
This broken moment : [typescript draft of chapter one with handwritten comments]
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
The white prince, Dec 15/16 — rage the night : [manuscript]
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
The second draft of Sylvanus Now - Parts 4 to the end
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
The second draft of Sylvanus Now - Parts 1 to 3
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
The fortunate brother : a novel by Donna Morrissey : [manuscript]
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
The deception of Livvy Higgs : [typescript with editorial comments]
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
The deception of Livvy Higgs : [typescript with editorial comments]
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
The deception of Livvy Higgs : [typescript of pages 1-19 with handwritten comments]
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
The deception of Livvy Higgs : [typescript final draft]
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
The deception of Livvy Higgs : [typescript draft of pages 104-179 with handwritten comments]
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Subseries contains sixteen files of drafts at various levels of completeness for the novel The Deception of Livvy Higgs. The majority of the drafts are labelled as chapter one, but may contain pieces of other chapters. Some draft have been numbered, either in the typescript or with handwritten annotations, but not all drafts appear to be in order and some have duplicated pages. Drafts contain various titles, title suggestions, and editorial comments.
The Deception of Livvy Higgs is a book by Donna Morrissey.
For two days, Livvy Higgs is besieged by a series of small heart attacks while the ghost of her younger self leads her back through a past devastated by lies and secrets.
The story opens in Halifax in 2009, travels back to the French Shore of Newfoundland during the mid-1930s and the heyday of the Maritime shipping industry, makes its way to wartorn Halifax during the battle of the Atlantic in the Second World War, then leaps ahead to the bedside of the elderly Livvy.
Caught between a troubled past, and her present worsening living conditions, Livvy is forced to pick apart the lies and secrets told by her greedy, prideful father, Durwin Higgs, who judges her a failure, and her formidable Grandmother Creed, who has mysteriously aligned herself with Livvy's father despite their mutual hatred.
Tending to Livvy during her illness is her young next-door neighbour, Gen, a single mother, social-work student, and part-time drug dealer. Overnight, a violent scene embroils the two in each other's lives in a manner that will entwine them forever.
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Television interviews with Donna Morrissey
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Television interview with Donna Morrissey and Duane Lowe, Global Noon
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Synopsis of The Clothesline Patch [electronic resource]
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Synopsis of Kit's Law [electronic resource]
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Synopsis of Kit's Law [electronic resource]
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Synopsis of Frank Parker Day's Rockbound [electronic resource]
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Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Sylvanus now / by Donna Morrissey
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Sylvanus now / by Donna Morrissey
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Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Short stories, vignettes, and untitled manuscripts
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Sequence of memories re. earlier years in school RTN
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
RTN (rage the night) : [manuscript]
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Research materials used for What They Wanted
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Research materials and notes for Livvy Higgs
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Rage the night — Kohen notes II and III
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Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds
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Publicity schedules for the Sylvanus Now tour
Part of Donna Morrissey fonds