The Watch That Ends the Night
Hugh MacLennan(Author)
McGill-Queen's University Press
Book
Paperback/Softback
372 pages
978-0-7735-2497-2 (ISBN)
Description
George and Catherine Stewart share the worry of Catherine's illness, which could cause her death at any time, and the memory of Jerome Martell, Catherine's first husband and George's closest friend. Martel, a brilliant doctor passionately concerned with social justice, is presumed to have died in a Nazi prison camp. His sudden return to Montreal precipitates the central crisis of this novel. Hugh MacLennan takes the reader into the lives of his three characters and back into the world of Montreal in the thirties, when politics could send an idealist across the world to Spain, France, Auschwitz, Russian, China, and back, finally, to his old home.
Reviews / Votes
The Watch That Ends the Night is a novel of affirmation ... The vanity of human wishes, death itself, are part of the mystery to be loved ... I would not trade MacLennan for a legion of beatniks or a whole flotilla-full of angry young men. Queen's QuarterlyMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Montreal
Canada
Target group
Professional and scholarly
ISBN-13
978-0-7735-2497-2 (9780773524972)
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Hugh MacLennan
Watch That Ends the Night
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05/2009
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