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House of Hate

by (author) Percy Janes

Publisher
Breakwater Books Ltd.
Initial publish date
Apr 1992
Category
General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9781550810233
    Publish Date
    Apr 1992
    List Price
    $9.95

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Description

The destructive hatred a family can turn upon itself is the theme of this powerful work, which has, in the words of Margaret Laurence, become "a classic of its kind." Set in the stark, confining atmosphere of a Newfoundland mill town, this semi-autobiographical novel tells the story of the Stone family-caught in relentless poverty and tyrannized by Saul Stone, an illiterate man whose primitive fury warps and twists his wife and children.

A brilliant portrayal of existence bereft of tenderness, House of Hate is a tale of human ordeal and of an anguished striving for love in the midst of bitterness. It is, as Farley Mowat has observed, "a book unique in Canadian Literature."

About the author

Percy Janes is a Canadian author who was raised in Newfoundland and returned there to live after extended travels in Europe.

 

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