Set during the dramatic Red River Resistance of 1869-1870 and the birth of Manitoba. The novel is told through the perspective of a young Irish-Canadian journalist, Conor O'Dea. Under mysterious circumstances, after working for the assassinated politician D'Arcy McGee, O'Dea is sent West, and to Sir John A. Macdonald's horror befriends Louis Riel. Macdonald never understood Louis Riel and never really tried to.
The story also includes the little known Fenian attack in Manitoba. If Louis Riel had supported his fellow Catholics, it could have been what the lieutenant governor called "a rough time of it." But he didn't. He supported Canada.
Equal parts spy thriller and love triangle and, in a time of reconciliation, this poignant novel contributes to the complicated story of Canada.
Henderson and Bouchard have managed the magnificent feat of starting a very important conversation about this great land for all of those who call it home.
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Gewebe-Einband
Maße
Höhe: 230 mm
Breite: 154 mm
Dicke: 32 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-998779-40-6 (9781998779406)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
GORDON HENDERSON is an accomplished journalist and documentary filmmaker. His company 90th Parallel Productions has produced more than a hundred premium documentaries which have run on all major Canadian networks and been broadcast around the world. Many have won national and international awards.
Henderson is no stranger to Canadian history. He was a parliamentary correspondent, a current affairs producer and a senior series producer of the CBC/Radio-Canada Canada: A People's History.
Henderson is the author of the novel Man in the Shadows, built around the assassination of Irish-Canadian politician D'Arcy McGee.
For more than a decade he taught in the Journalism department at Toronto's Ryerson (now Metropolitan) University. He lives in Toronto with his wife Pam.
