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[Only registered and activated users can see links] A Century of November
Author(s): W. D. Wetherell
Published: 13 August 2009
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472114313
Pages: 173
Extension: PDF
Size: 689 KB
Subjects: Fiction, Literature, Historical Fiction
Categories: Fiction, Literature, Historical Fiction
A haunting story of the power of death, the pain of loss, and the possibility of hope in a time of war
| A Century of November is the tale of Charles Marden, an apple grower and judge who sets off from his Vancouver Island home on an impulsive journey to Belgium, where his son, an Allied soldier in the First World War, has just died in battle at the very end of the war. Marden's single-minded mission: finding the exact spot where his son was killed.
Across western Canada the Spanish flu rages - the very disease that claimed Marden's wife three weeks earlier. Upon arriving in England, he learns that his son left behind a pregnant girlfriend. Soon his search widens to include locating the girl, too. Nearing the front lines, Marden seems to descend into the fires of hell as he navigates the mine-strewn killing fields of the trenches, still reeking with poison gas. Will he find the girl, and will he find an answer to the forces that drove him halfway around the world?
Author W. D. Wetherell has given us a novel of terrifying beauty, one that seems to occupy the place between waking and dreams. Its haunting words will linger long after the book is shut.
Download W D Wetherell - A Century of November
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Author(s): W. D. Wetherell
Published: 13 August 2009
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 9780472114313
Pages: 173
Extension: PDF
Size: 689 KB
Subjects: Fiction, Literature, Historical Fiction
Categories: Fiction, Literature, Historical Fiction
A haunting story of the power of death, the pain of loss, and the possibility of hope in a time of war
| A Century of November is the tale of Charles Marden, an apple grower and judge who sets off from his Vancouver Island home on an impulsive journey to Belgium, where his son, an Allied soldier in the First World War, has just died in battle at the very end of the war. Marden's single-minded mission: finding the exact spot where his son was killed.
Across western Canada the Spanish flu rages - the very disease that claimed Marden's wife three weeks earlier. Upon arriving in England, he learns that his son left behind a pregnant girlfriend. Soon his search widens to include locating the girl, too. Nearing the front lines, Marden seems to descend into the fires of hell as he navigates the mine-strewn killing fields of the trenches, still reeking with poison gas. Will he find the girl, and will he find an answer to the forces that drove him halfway around the world?
Author W. D. Wetherell has given us a novel of terrifying beauty, one that seems to occupy the place between waking and dreams. Its haunting words will linger long after the book is shut.
Download W D Wetherell - A Century of November
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