THE DANGER TREE Memory, War, and the Search for a Family's Past

Macfarlane, David

ISBN 10: 0921912048 / ISBN 13: 9780921912040

Edité par MacFarlane, Walter & Ross, Toronto, 1991

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A very nice copy in dust jacket without flaw. 6.5 X 9" 224 pages. The Danger Tree is a nonfiction family saga built around the Goodyear family of Newfoundland - their move early in the century from Ladle Cove on the Straight Shore to the newly established town of Grand Falls in the interior; the loss of three brothers during WWI; the ambitions and failures of the family enterprises and the Goodyears' bitter division over the question of whether Newfoundland should become a province of Canada. Through the meticulously recreated story, David Macfarlane illuminates the past in a fresh and unexpected way.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: THE DANGER TREE Memory, War, and the Search for a Family's Past
• Éditeur: MacFarlane, Walter & Ross, Toronto
• Date de parution: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0921912048
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780921912040
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Black & White Photos
• Édition: First Edition
• État de l'article: Very Good
• État de la jaquette: Very Good
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Biographies
  • History

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Book by Macfarlane David

Revue de presse

"An altogether remarkable, frequently funny, genuinely moving, and utterly original book."—Jan Morris

"I've just discovered The Danger Tree and am stunned. It is so good. [It's] about the best prose ever to come out of this country, for my money."—Alice Munro

"[David Macfarlane’s] Newfoundland memoir, The Danger Tree, is easily one of the most readable and beautifully written books to emerge from Canada in recent years." —Mordecai Richler, Saturday Night

"The Danger Tree is a masterpiece. David Macfarlane is an architect of the past, building extraordinary memory mansions in which the reader feels eerily at home." —Alberto Manguel

"The Danger Tree is absolutely riveting: an extraordinary mixture of history, memory, fiction, and technique that succeeds at every level. I was touched, I was exhilarated, and I was thrilled to read a book that has risen to the challenge of recording Canada’s past, the past in all our hearts." —Michael Ignatieff

"Macfarlane's debut is an auspicious one for a country that now, more than ever in its history, needs popular authors who can turn the past into stories that illuminate the present." —Maclean's

"Wry, informative, and deeply moving ... the literary tour de force of the year." —Philip Marchand, The Toronto Star

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