Voices in Time
Published on 1. April 2011
316 pages
978-0-7735-8625-3 (ISBN)
Description
In the 1980s the Bureaucracy eliminated all knowledge of the past in the wake of a nuclear holocaust. In 2030 André Gervais discovers two metal boxes containing manuscripts, diaries, and other personal papers that have somehow survived and asks an old man, John Wellfleet, to use these documents to discover the past. In doing so, Wellfleet learns the truth about two relatives: his older cousin Timothy Wellfleet, a Montreal TV journalist at the time of the 1970 War Measures Act, and his stepfather, Conrad Dehmel, a German scholar struggling to keep his Jewish fiancée and himself safe from Hitler''s Gestapo. Hugh MacLennan skillfully juxtaposes the insanity of life in Nazi Germany, the political climate of Montreal in the 1960s, and the perspective of an old man looking back on the conditions that led to world destruction as the background to an unforgettable love story.
More details
Other editions
Additional editions
Hugh MacLennan
Voices in Time
Book
04/2011
McGill-Queen's University Press
€22.00
Article not available at the moment
Content
- Cover
- Contents
- General Editor's Note
- Chronology
- Select Bibliography
- Preface: On an Entirely Personal Note
- Introduction
- PART ONE: John Wellfleet's story
- PART TWO: Timothy Wellfleet's story as told
- PART THREE: Conrad Dehmel's story as told
- PART FOUR: Conrad Dehmel's story as told by himself
- PART FIVE: Conrad Dehmel's story as told
- PART SIX: John Wellfleet's story
- PART SEVEN: Conrad Dehmel's story as told
- PART EIGHT: Conrad Dehmel's story as told by himself
- PART NINE: Timothy Wellfleet's story as told
- PART TEN: John Wellfleet's story concluded
