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Coles THE UNDISCIPLINED HEART: A Novel of Inheritance at Bayshore Shopping Centre in Ottawa, ON
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John Fielding was born into the wreckage of the American promise—a Connecticut mill town where the factories were already dying, his father killed on a shop floor six months before John drew breath, his mother left to raise him on cashier's wages and three jobs that aged her forty years in twenty.
Then, at ten, John is pulled out of school and sent to cut metal in Creakle's sheet-metal factory. Twelve-hour shifts. Hands sliced open and stitched without anesthetic. A childhood traded for rent money. He survives it the only way he can—by watching, by remembering, by turning everything that happens to him into words.
What follows is the unlikeliest of ascents: a rescue by two strangers, an elite boarding school, a debut novel that makes him famous, a marriage to a woman who loves the wounded parts of him, a Pulitzer Prize. The boy from the factory becomes the voice of a generation writing about everyone the country left behind.
But late in his life, sorting through his dead mother's papers, John finds something that detonates the entire story he's told the world—and himself. The poverty that broke him was not, it turns out, inevitable. His mother had a choice. And what she chose, and why, forces him to ask the question that haunts every survivor: Can the love that saves you and the cruelty that scars you be the same act, by the same hands?
Sweeping from the rust of post-industrial America to the marble of literary celebrity, The Undisciplined Heart reimagines Dickens for our age of inequality—a novel about class and memory, ambition and complicity, and the unbearable, unbreakable bond between a mother and the son she made in her own image.
Some debts can never be repaid. Some can only be understood.
John Fielding was born into the wreckage of the American promise—a Connecticut mill town where the factories were already dying, his father killed on a shop floor six months before John drew breath, his mother left to raise him on cashier's wages and three jobs that aged her forty years in twenty.
Then, at ten, John is pulled out of school and sent to cut metal in Creakle's sheet-metal factory. Twelve-hour shifts. Hands sliced open and stitched without anesthetic. A childhood traded for rent money. He survives it the only way he can—by watching, by remembering, by turning everything that happens to him into words.
What follows is the unlikeliest of ascents: a rescue by two strangers, an elite boarding school, a debut novel that makes him famous, a marriage to a woman who loves the wounded parts of him, a Pulitzer Prize. The boy from the factory becomes the voice of a generation writing about everyone the country left behind.
But late in his life, sorting through his dead mother's papers, John finds something that detonates the entire story he's told the world—and himself. The poverty that broke him was not, it turns out, inevitable. His mother had a choice. And what she chose, and why, forces him to ask the question that haunts every survivor: Can the love that saves you and the cruelty that scars you be the same act, by the same hands?
Sweeping from the rust of post-industrial America to the marble of literary celebrity, The Undisciplined Heart reimagines Dickens for our age of inequality—a novel about class and memory, ambition and complicity, and the unbearable, unbreakable bond between a mother and the son she made in her own image.
Some debts can never be repaid. Some can only be understood.
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