October
Richard B. Wright
Sold by Calmwater Books, Shediac, NB, Canada
AbeBooks Seller since 10 March 2014
Used - Hardcover
Condition: Used - Fine
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Add to basketSold by Calmwater Books, Shediac, NB, Canada
AbeBooks Seller since 10 March 2014
Condition: Used - Fine
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketBook is in very good condition, very clean with no writing or markings anywhere. Well bound with no loose or missing pages. With dust jacket also in very good condition with no rips or tears anywhere. Stated **First Edition** **Signed and Inscribed by Author** with "To Heather 'Try Canadian Fiction' All Good wishes Richard B. Wright" on first title page. Also on first title page an inscription from previous owner, " Christmas 2007 Love Dave".
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A new novel that Richard B. Wright’s Clara Callan fans will adore, October effortlessly weaves a haunting coming-of-age story set in World War II Quebec with a contemporary portrait of a man still searching for answers in the autumn of his life.
In England to see his daughter, Susan, who is gravely ill, James Hillyer, a retired professor of Victorian literature, encounters by chance a man he once knew as a boy. Gabriel Fontaine, a rich and attractive American he met one summer during the war, when he was sent on a holiday to the Gaspé, is a mercurial figure, badly crippled by polio. A s an adolescent, James was both attracted to and repelled by Gabriel’s cocksure attitude and charm. He also fell hopelessly in love with Odette, a French- Canadian girl from the village, only to find himself in competition with the careless Gabriel. Now, at this random meeting over six decades later—as he struggles with the terrible possibility that he could outlive his own daughter—James is asked by Gabriel to accompany him on a final, unthinkable journey. A t last, James begins to see that all beginnings and endings are inexorably linked.
A classic Richard B. Wright novel, defined by superb storytelling, subtle, spare writing and characters who travel psychological territory as familiar—and uncharted—as our own, October is an extraordinary meditation on mortality, childhood and memory.
RICHARD B. WRIGHT is the author of 11 novels, including Clara Callan, a #1 national bestseller that won the Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Trillium Book Award and the CBA Libris Awards for Book of the Year and for Author of the Year. He has been awarded the Order of Canada. Richard B. Wright lives in St. Catharines, Ontario, with his wife, Phyllis.
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