Barometer Rising
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December 6, 2017 was the 100th anniversary of the Halifax Explosion
As it unfolds against the compelling background of wartime Halifax, Barometer Rising exhibits all of what Queen's professor D.O. Spettigue describes as MacLennan's "imaginative power and literary craftsmanship."
The tight, melodramatic plot fuses together a tender love story, a bitter father-son conflict and a desperate search, centering on the famous harbour explosion. The novel stands in the front ranks of Canadian literature.
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A major 20th century Canadian author, Hugh MacLennan was born in Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, in 1907. His seven novels and many essays and travel books present a chronicle of Canada that often mediates between the old world of its European cultural heritage and the new world of American vitality and materialism. Among his many honours, he won five Governor General's Awards. Hugh MacLennan died in Montreal in 1990.