Voices in Time - Couverture souple

MacLennan, Hugh

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0773524940 ISBN 13 : 9780773524941

Editeur : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2011

Synopsis

In the 1980s the Bureaucracy eliminated all knowledge of the past in the wake of a nuclear holocaust. In 2030 Andr? Gervais discovers two metal boxes containing manuscripts, diaries, and other personal papers that have somehow survived and asks an old man, John Wellfleet, to use these documents to discover the past. In doing so, Wellfleet learns the truth about two relatives: his older cousin Timothy Wellfleet, a Montreal TV journalist at the time of the 1970 War Measures Act, and his stepfather, Conrad Dehmel, a German scholar struggling to keep his Jewish fianc?e and himself safe from Hitler's Gestapo. Hugh MacLennan skillfully juxtaposes the insanity of life in Nazi Germany, the political climate of Montreal in the 1960s, and the perspective of an old man looking back on the conditions that led to world destruction as the background to an unforgettable love story.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Hugh MacLennan (1907-1990) taught at McGill University from 1951 to 1981 and wrote novels and essays that helped define Canadian literature. His novels include Barometer Rising (1941), Two Solitudes (1945), Each Man's Son (

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0773524940
• ISBN 13: 9780773524941
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 392
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