by Anne Lazurko
And finally, David, I couldn’t have done it without your faith in my writing, and your love.
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An important resource on diseases, medicine and attitudes of the period was Donald Jack’s Rogues, Rebels and Geniuses: The Story of Canadian Medicine (Toronto: Doubleday, 1981)
About the Author
Anne Lazurko is a graduate of the Humber School of Writing whose work has been included in the anthology Fast Forward: New Saskatchewan Poets. Dollybird is her first book.
Saskatchewan born and raised, Anne has a political science degree from the University of Saskatchewan, and works as a freelance writer and a farmer. She lives with her family in Weyburn, Saskatchewan.
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©Anne Lazurko, 2013
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This novel is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, is coincidental.
Edited by Sandra Birdsell
Designed by Tania Craan
Typeset by Susan Buck
Printed and bound in Canada at Houghton Boston
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Lazurko, Anne, 1964-, author
Dollybird / Anne Lazurko.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-55050-563-4 (pbk.).-- ISBN 978-1-55050-564-1 (pdf).--
ISBN 978-1-55050-748-5 (epub).--ISBN 978-1-55050-749-2 (mobi)
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PS8623.A98D65 2013 C813’.6 C2013-903647-4
C2013-903648-2
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program by: The Saskatchewan Arts Board, the Canada Council for the Arts and the Government of Canada through the Canada Book Fund.