What is left the daughter, [a novel], by Howard Norman
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What is left the daughter, [a novel], by Howard Norman
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fiction
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What is left the daughter
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by Howard Norman
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[a novel]
Summary
Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer, suddenly orphaned, goes to live with his uncle and aunt. Setting in motion the novel's chain of life-altering passions, and the wartime perfidy at its core, is the arrival of German student. Actual historical events--including the sinking of the Nova Scotia--Newfoundland ferry Caribou, on which Wyatt's aunt may be traveling--lend intense narrative power to this uncannily layered story. Wyatt's personal account of the astonishing events leading up to his fathering of a beloved daughter spills out twenty-one years later in a confession that speaks deeply of the mysteries of human character in wartime and is directed, with despair and hope, to an audience of one
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