George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine's heart disease, which could cause her death at any time, but the memory of Jerome Martell, her first husband and George's closest friend. Martel, a brilliant doctor passionately concerned with social justice, is presumed to have died in a Nazi prison camp. His sudden return to Montreal precipitates the central crisis of the novel. Hugh MacLennan takes the reader into the lives of his three characters and back into the world of Montreal in the thirties, ...
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George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine's heart disease, which could cause her death at any time, but the memory of Jerome Martell, her first husband and George's closest friend. Martel, a brilliant doctor passionately concerned with social justice, is presumed to have died in a Nazi prison camp. His sudden return to Montreal precipitates the central crisis of the novel. Hugh MacLennan takes the reader into the lives of his three characters and back into the world of Montreal in the thirties, when politics could send an idealist across the world to Spain, France, Auschwitz, Russia, and China before his return home.
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Good in Good dust jacket. * Nice book for age has some scuffing, DJ is old and cracking some tears are taped *. Unknown printing. 373 p.; 22 cm. A novel.
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VERY GOOD+ Tight, faint page yellowing, clean and square. Faint chipping to cover edges. "That passion and politics of a generation that was young in the thirties…"
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Very Good in Very Good jacket. Book Some edge wear to boards and dust jacket including chips out of dj at top and bottom of spine and at corners; otherwise a solid, clean copy with no marking or underlining; collectible condition; dust jacket is protected by a Brodart sleeve.
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Stamped non-returnable. Good-Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name-GOOD Standard-sized.
