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As change continues to buffet Canada's political and cultural institutions, readers may turn for perspective to Hugh MacLennan's landmark of nationalist fiction. Winner of the 1945 Governor General's Award, Two Solitudes still manages to shed light on the stage of Canadian unity with its vivid depiction of individual human dramas in pre-war Québec.
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?Northwest of Montreal, through a valley always in sight of the low mountains of the Laurentian Shield, the Ottawa River flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec. It comes down broad and ale-coloured and joins the Saint Lawrence, the two streams embrace the pan of Montreal Island, the Ottawa merges and loses itself, and the main-stream moves northeastward a thousand miles to sea.?
With these words Hugh MacLennan begins his powerful saga of Athanase Tallard, the son of an aristo-cratic French-Canadian tradition, of Kathleen, his beautiful Irish wife, and of their son Paul, who struggles to establish a balance in himself and in the country he calls home.
First published in 1945, and set mostly in the time of the First World War, Two Solitudes is a classic novel of individuals working out the latest stage in their embroiled history.
Two Solitudes
Two Solitudes (Large Print Library),Hugh MacLennan,Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited,1550413082,Classics,Fiction,General,Literature - Classics / Criticism
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