Author: Max Braithwaite. Published by McClelland and Stewart Ltd., 1971, 1st Edition. (Reprinted 1974) Printed in Canada. Almost New Condition SOFTCOVER Book, with light small tear at base of spine. Clean inside, tight spine. Size: 7 x 4.25 inch, 220 pages.
THE NIGHT WE STOLE THE MOUNTIE'S CAR, A Funny Story by Max Braithwaite, is a bittersweet collection of recollections of life on the Prairies during the early Thirties, and It's also Braithwaite at his vintage best – lusty, thought-provoking, and consistently amusing.
It was a time of depression and drought; but for Max, a young schoolteacher, it was also a time for courtship and marriage, for those hilarious episodes in Wannego, Saskatchewan, which did much to belie the grimness of the era. There was Max’s disastrous umpiring of a Ladies’ Softball game; his writing and directing of a play that generated more drama off-stage than on; the awful problem of the wasps at the outhouse, and much, much, more.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: John Victor Maxwell Braithwaite (7 December 1911 – 19 March 1995) was a Canadian novelist and non-fiction author. He was born in Nokomis, Saskatchewan and spent his youth in a number of communities in that province. As an adult he moved to Ontario, living in communities such as Orangeville, Port Carling and finally Brighton where he died at age 83.
For more info on this Author, please see: Max Braithwaite | The Canadian Encyclopedia
ISBN: 9780771016034
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