The Maze
A Thomas Pichon Novel
- Publisher
- Cape Breton University Press
- Initial publish date
- Jun 2014
- Category
- Historical
- Recommended Reading age
- 16 to 18
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781897009765
- Publish Date
- Jun 2014
- List Price
- $19.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781927492710
- Publish Date
- Jun 2014
- List Price
- $59.85
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Description
Like the streets of his 18th-century Paris home, Thomas Pichon’s life is full of twists and turns. Despite winning his wife’s forgiveness for an extramarital affair, Thomas and his lover, Hélène, are caught a second time, and decide that it’s time for new beginnings – in London. As a writer, Thomas tries to make literary sense of the chaos of the life and language of a city teeming with excitement and danger. Hélène finds her own way out of the maze.
About the author
A.J.B. Johnston has published more than a dozen books and hundreds of articles, a thirty-plus years career studying and writing about 18th-century French colonial history in Acadia. In recognition of his prolific career as a historian and writer, John was invested by France with the title Chevalier of the Ordre des Palmes Académiques (Order of Academic Palms). Johnston has now turned his hand to fiction. Long inspired to know more about Thomas Pichon (1700-1781), In his first novel, Thomas, A Secret Life (CBU Press, 2012), Johnston applied his considerable sense of 18th-century French history to imagine young Pichon’s early life in Normandy and Paris. For The Maze, Johnston did extensive research on 18th-century London.
