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In the waning days of World War II, Sheilagh Fielding makes her way to a deserted island off the coast of Newfoundland. But she soon comes to suspect another presence: that of a man known only as her Provider, who has shadowed her for twenty years.Against the backdrop of Newfoundland's history and landscape, Fielding is a compelling figure. Taller than most men and striking in spite of her crippled leg, she is both eloquent and subversively funny. Her newspaper columns exposing the foibles and hypocrisies of her native city, St. John's, have made many powerful enemies for her, chief among them the man who fathered her children-twins-when she was fourteen. Only her Provider, however, knows all of Fielding's secrets. Reading group guide included.
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Praise for Wayne Johnston:
"Wayne Johnston is prodigiously talented."
-"The Globe and Mail"
"Wayne Johnston is a brilliant and accomplished writer and his Newfoundland - boots and boats, rough politics and rough country, history and journalism - is vivid and sharp."
-Annie Proulx
"Unlike most recent bestselling novels that are remembered for the plane flight and then promptly forgotten, Wayne's stories have characters who move in and take up permanent residence."
-Mary Walsh
"ÝJohnston is¨ a literary giant who has god-given talent."
-Will Ferguson, "The Globe and Mail"
"His books are beautifully written, among the funniest I've ever read, yet somehow at the same time among the most poignant and moving."
-Annie Dillard
"From the Hardcover edition."
Starred Review. An absorbing patchwork narrative....Johnston may be the best of all the 21st century's neo-Victorian novelists.
Synopsis
Making her way to a deserted island off the coast of Newfoundland in the waning days of World War II, Sheilagh Fielding learns the identity of a man who has shadowed her for twenty years, a finding that coincides with the discovery of the fate of her twin children.
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- PublisherW. W. Norton & Company
- Publication date2007
- ISBN 10 0393064913
- ISBN 13 9780393064919
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages582
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