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What Is Left the Daughter

โœ Scribed by Norman, Howard

Book ID
107256748
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Tongue
English
Weight
129 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9780618735433

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โœฆ Synopsis

Howard Norman, widely regarded as one of this country's finest novelists, returns to the mesmerizing fictional terrain of his major books--The Bird Artist , The Museum Guard , and The Haunting of L --in this erotically charged and morally complex story.

Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other, jump off two different bridges--the result of their separate involvements with the same compelling neighbor, a Halifax switchboard operator and aspiring actress. The suicides cause Wyatt to move to small-town Middle Economy to live with his uncle, aunt, and ravishing cousin Tilda.

Setting in motion the novel's chain of life-altering passions and the wartime perfidy at its core is the arrival of the German student Hans Mohring, carrying only a satchel. Actual historical incidents--including a German U-boat's sinking of the Nova Scotia-Newfoundland ferry Caribou , on which Aunt...

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