Cabbagetown

by Hugh Garner

Book Overview

Toronto's Cabbagetown in the Depression...North America's largest Anglo-Saxon slum. Ken Tilling leaves school to face the bleak prospects of the dirty thirties-where do you go, what do you do, how do you make a life for yourself when all the world offers in unemployment, poverty and uncertainty?

"As a social document, Cabbagetown is as important and revealing as either The Tin Flute or The Grapes of Wrath. Stern realism has also projected upon the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070915520
• ISBN13: 9780070915527
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: McGraw Hill Ryerson
• Length: 424 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.