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Chargement... Each Man's Sonpar Hugh MacLennan
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Dan Ainslie, a brilliant doctor working with the miners of his native Cape Breton Island, is forty-two and deeply in love with his wife. Longing for the son he can never have, he comes to love the young Alan MacNeil, whose father deserted him and his mother several years before. Alan's father's return brings tragedy to those around him. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Google Books — Chargement... GenresClassification décimale de Melvil (CDD)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classification de la Bibliothèque du CongrèsÉvaluationMoyenne:
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Hugh MacLennan lived in such a town in Nova Scotia, so this novel is a homecoming for him. The phonetically rendered Gaelic-tinged accents can seem a bit much sometimes -- even the Frenchman doesn't have as strong an accent, or perhaps I was so surprised by the Scottish Gaelic accents that a French accent in print went unnoticed. The characters and the setting were vividly rendered, as you would expect from a novel written by a local, and while the back cover blurb discusses an event that doesn't happen until close to the end of the book, that event's impact is in no way lessened by the reader knowing that it will happen.
The more recent New Canadian Library edition has an afterword by Alec Lucas that dissects the book from a religious standpoint, which may be of greater interest to more serious students of literary criticism. I found that part dull. The main attraction is the book. I would recommend Each Man's Son if you like to read books set in Nova Scotia, have read Twenty-Six, by Leo McKay Jr., or if you've read and enjoyed Barometer Rising, MacLennan's original "Maritimes novel". ( )