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Newfoundland novels (Wayne Johnston) volume 3
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English
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An epic family mystery with a powerful, surprise ending, which features the return of the ever-fascinating Sheilagh Fielding, one of the most memorable characters in fiction. Ned Vatcher, only 14, ambles home from school in the winter of 1936 to find the house locked, the family car missing, and his parents gone without a trace. From that point on, his life is driven by the need to find out what happened to the Vanished Vatchers. When Ned meets Sheilagh...
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Wayne Johnston returns with his funniest and sexiest novel yet, a coming-of-age tale set entirely in St. John's. Controversial in it issues, contemporary and then some in its depiction of humanity. Here comes Percy Joyce, born in St. John's in the late 1950s with a congenital facial disfigurement and local gigantism of the hands and feet. Percy is not baptized, and his mother stopped going to church after Percy's father ran off when she was pregnant....
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Wade Jackson, a young man from a Newfoundland outport, wants to be a writer. In the university library in St. John's, where he goes every day to absorb the great books of the world, he encounters the fascinating, South African-born Rachel van Hout, and soon they are lovers. Rachel is the youngest of four van Hout daughters. Her father, Hans, lived in Amsterdam during the Second World War, and says he was in the Dutch resistance. When the war ended,...
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