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The Mystery of Right and Wrong
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ISBN10: 0735281653
ISBN13: 9780735281653
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Published: May 16 2023
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.60 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780735281653
Publisher: Vintage Canada
Published: May 16 2023
Pages: 560
Weight: 1.00
Height: 1.60 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English
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An absolutely unforgettable novel.--Ian Williams A masterwork from one of the country's most critically acclaimed and beloved writers that grapples with male violence, sexual abuse, and madness. Complusively readable and heartstopping. Wade Jackson, a young man from a Newfoundland outport, wants to be a writer. In the university library in St. John's, where he goes every day to absorb the great books of the world, he encounters the fascinating, South African-born Rachel van Hout, and soon they are lovers.
An absolutely unforgettable novel.--Ian Williams A masterwork from one of the country's most critically acclaimed and beloved writers that grapples with male violence, sexual abuse, and madness. Complusively readable and heartstopping. Wade Jackson, a young man from a Newfoundland outport, wants to be a writer. In the university library in St. John's, where he goes every day to absorb the great books of the world, he encounters the fascinating, South African-born Rachel van Hout, and soon they are lovers.
Rachel is the youngest of four van Hout daughters, each in their own way a wounded soul. The oldest, Gloria, has a string of broken marriages behind her. Carmen is addicted to every drug her Afrikaner dealer husband can lay his hands on. Bethany, the most sardonic of the sisters, is fighting a losing battle with anorexia. And then there is Rachel, who reads The Diary of Anne Frank obsessively, and diarizes her days in a secret language of her own invention, writing to the point of breakdown and beyond--an obsession that has deeper and more disturbing roots than Wade could ever have imagined.
Confronting the central mystery of his character Rachel's life--and his own--Wayne Johnston has created a brilliant and searing tour de force that pulls the reader toward a conclusion both inevitable and impossible to foresee.
Confronting the central mystery of his character Rachel's life--and his own--Wayne Johnston has created a brilliant and searing tour de force that pulls the reader toward a conclusion both inevitable and impossible to foresee.
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