TY - BOOK AU - Bell,William TI - Alma: a novel SN - 0770429408 U1 - F BEL PY - 2005///, c2003 CY - Toronto PB - Seal KW - Authorship KW - Fiction KW - Intergenerational relations KW - Self-confidence KW - Books and reading KW - Authors, Canadian KW - Canadian fiction KW - FICTION / Historical / Canada KW - bisacsh N2 - To help her widowed mother make ends meet in 1932, Alma, who loves books and hopes to be a writer one day, takes a job transcribing letters for an eccentric and reclusive elderly neighbor who, she soon suspects, is actually her favorite author ER -