October
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.43 (647 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0002006898 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-07-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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WRIGHT is the author of 11 novels, including Clara Callan, a #1 national bestseller that won the Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Trillium Book Award and the CBA Libris Awards for Book of the Year and for Author of the Year. He has been awarded the Order of Canada. Wright lives in St. Catharines, Ontario, with his wife, Phyllis.. Richard B. RICHARD B
He has been awarded the Order of Canada. Richard B. About the AuthorRICHARD B. WRIGHT is the author of 11 novels, including Clara Callan, a #1 national bestseller that won the Giller Prize, the Governor General’s Award for Fiction, the Trillium Book Award and the CBA Libris Awards for Book of the Year and for Author of the Year. Catharines, Ontario, with his wife, Phyllis.. Wright lives in St
"Beautiful writing" according to Timothy J. Bazzett. There is no fault to be found in Richard B. Wright's OCTOBER, but the subject is sad. A melancholic study of death and dying paired with memories of one special wartime summer for a fourteen year-old boy, James Hillyer. Forced unwillingly into a friendship with another boy, sixteen year-old polio victim, Gabriel Fontaine, the two boys vie for the attention and affection of Odette, a hotel chambermaid at a summer resort in Canada. From a vantage point of sixty years later, James, a retired professor of Victorian literature, reflects back on that summer. It all comes back to him when he mee
Gabriel Fontaine, a rich and attractive American he met one summer during the war, when he was sent on a holiday to the Gaspé, is a mercurial figure, badly crippled by polio. Wright’s Clara Callan fans will adore, October effortlessly weaves a haunting coming-of-age story set in World War II Quebec with a contemporary portrait of a man still searching for answers in the autumn of his life. A s an adolescent, James was both attracted to and repelled by Gabriel’s cocksure attitude and charm. A classic Richard B. He also fell hopelessly in love with Odette, a French- Canadian girl from the village, only to find himself in competiti