Barometer Rising
Large Print Edition
- Publisher
- Fitzhenry and Whiteside
- Initial publish date
- May 1995
- Category
- Classics
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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).
