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Elizabeth Rouble Hill

 

 
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36 Words

Growing up and coming of age is combined with the young perceptions and experiences that capture the reader’s interest and imagination to such an extent that once you start reading, you won’t be able to stop.

 

61 Words

The reader will be attracted to Elizabeth Hill’s clear and personal writing style. The book will carry you from childhood, through adolescence and finally to adulthood. The book breaks down the barriers of the social world into which she and her siblings were born onto the other side of the tracks. Her remarkable story is a true dedication to her parents.

 

108 Words

The Other Side of the Tracks is a valuable memoir in many ways. It combines autobiographical elements, firsthand testimony of a historical period, and a touch of chronicle-style writing, all of which make for an engaging and rewarding read. The Other Side of the Tracks is therefore a tribute not only to family memories but also to an era that remains alive in the author’s heart and longs to be expressed. She recounts her experiences while capturing the wider world that shaped her life and the lives of her family members and acquaintances. This fine collection moves naturally between poetry and prose and will never let the reader down. 

 

Back Cover Reviews:

This book conveys in a simple, straightforward and very effective language how life was for a working-class family in Canada in the second half of the twentieth century.

 

Growing up, coming of age, young perceptions and experiences that capture the reader’s interest and imagination to such an extent that once you start reading, you just can’t put it down.

 

Prof. Juan J. Castillos, Egyptologist currently

living and teaching in Montevideo, Uruguay.

 

 

 

The author’s fascinating narrative focuses on her personal contribution to the socialist values quietly gifted to her by her parents.  Each of the 28 revealing, warm, dramatic chapters of discovery and comprehension recount her personal growth. 

 

The reader is attracted to her pride in her successes, small and large, as a child, then an adolescent and finally an adult, in breaking down the barriers of the social world into which she and her siblings were born “on the other side of the tracks” within the “cold war” of middle and late 20th century Toronto. Her remarkable story is an appreciative homage to her parents.

 

Keith Ellis

Professor Emeritus of Latin American Literature at U of T

 

 

 

In this delightful book the writer endeavours to represent a compelling reality: life on the other side of the tracks. Any temptation of a self-pitying literary treatment would have made the story a prescription to emote. Elizabeth Hill does not indulge in this. She trusts the reader’s capacity to empathize by just presenting the facts. This ability to resist the temptation to feed emotions by limiting herself to a simple story telling style is what makes this book worth reading.

 

Giovanna Peel B.F.A., B.E.D.

Author of “Starting with Tuscany”

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