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Fiction Classics

Barometer Rising

Large Print Edition

by (author) Hugh MacLennan

Publisher
Fitzhenry and Whiteside
Initial publish date
May 1995
Category
Classics
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550413045
    Publish Date
    May 1995
    List Price
    $25.00

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Description

Penelope Wain believes that her lover, Neil Macrae, has been killed while serving overseas under her father That he died apparently in disgrace does not alter her love for him, even though her father is insistent on his guilt What neither Penelope or her father knows is that Neil is not dead, but has returned to Halifax to clear his name

Hugh MacLennan's first novel is a compelling romance set against the horrors of wartime and the catastrophic Halifax Explosion of December 6, 1917

About the author

Born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Hugh MacLennan (1907-1990) taught at McGill University from 1951 to 1981 and wrote novels and essays that helped define Canadian literature. His novels include Barometer Rising (1941), Two Solitudes (1945), Each Man's Son (1951), The Watch That Ends the Night (1959), Return of the Sphinx (1967), and Voices in Time (1980). He also published several nonfiction works, including Cross Country (1949), Thirty and Three (1955), The Scotchman’s Return and Other Essays (1960), and The Colour of Canada (1967).

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