Road Ends
β Scribed by Mary Lawson
- Publisher
- Knopf Canada
- Year
- 2013
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 178 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 034580810X
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β¦ Synopsis
He listened as their voices faded into the rumble of the falls. He was thinking about the lynx. The way it had looked at him, acknowledging his existence, then passing out of his life like smoke. . . It was the first thing--the only thing--that had managed, if only for a moment, to displace from his mind the image of the child. He had carried that image with him for a year now, and it had been a weight so great that sometimes he could hardly stand.
Mary Lawson's beloved novels, Crow Lake and The Other Side of the Bridge , have delighted legions of readers around the world. The fictional, northern Ontario town of Struan, buried in the winter snows, is the vivid backdrop to her breathtaking new novel.
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