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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf Canada
Language
English
Description
A beautifully transporting novel capturing the romantic sweep of the twentieth century-- from Toronto in the '20s and '30s through the killing fields of World War II, to 1960s Rome and Florence. Born in 1916, Henry, thin-as-sticks and nearsighted, is an obsessive doodler who shamelessly copies illustrations from his Boys Own magazines. Left in the care of a nurturing, no-nonsense, Shakespeare-quoting, cardsharp grandmother, Henry receives as a gift...
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