Pure Spring
by Brian Doyle
LTF Stock #: 000427
In Pure Spring, Canadian novelist Brian Doyle returns to 1940s Ottawa through the eyes of Martin O’Boy, a spirited teenager learning about loyalty, labor, and love. Working at a car wash to support his family, Martin navigates friendship, first crushes, and quiet moral dilemmas in a postwar world still finding its rhythm. Doyle’s lyrical prose transforms everyday moments into meditations on kindness, decency, and the unspoken bonds of community. Both humorous and poignant, the story captures a universal nostalgia for adolescence tempered by responsibility. A companion to Boy O’Boy, it stands on its own as a testament to working-class life, youthful wonder, and the persistence of hope. (Groundwood Books, 2007; 176 pp.)
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