Cape Breton Road
by MacDonald, D. R
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Near Fine with no dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0385259115
- ISBN 13
- 9780385259118
- Seller
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Vars, Ontario, Canada
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About This Item
Synopsis
This is the story of Innis Corbett, a young man born in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, into a Highlander community whose inhabitants are held by ties of memory and blood. As a child Innis went with his parents to live in Boston. After his father was killed in a car accident, Innis was raised by his mother, a woman with a weakness for men and drink. When Innis gets into trouble over a series of car thefts, he is deported back to Canada, a fate worse than prison, in his eyes. Innis ends up living with his Uncle Starr amidst the harshly beautiful landscape that has shaped his family and that both absorbs and challenges him. He takes refuge in the wild, dense woods, where he devises a plan to grow marijuana. This venture relieves his loneliness and gives him something to care for, a secret of his own. Then Claire, an attractive former flight attendant nearing 40, enters the Starr household. So begins an entanglement that leads to suspicion, jealousy, and ultimately to violence. Cape Breton Road is an exceptional novel by a writer with an unerring eye for landscape and tragedy that is bred in the bone.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Bytown Bookery (CA)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5577
- Title
- Cape Breton Road
- Author
- MacDonald, D. R
- Format/Binding
- Trade Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine with no dust jacket
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0385259115
- ISBN 13
- 9780385259118
- Publisher
- Doubleday Canada, Limited
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, On, Canada
- Date Published
- 2001
- Keywords
- 0385259115, Nova Scotia, Sagas
- Bookseller catalogs
- Canadiana; Fashion;
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