About this title: Bestselling novelist David Bergen follows his Scotiabank Giller Prize--winning The Time in Between with a haunting novel about the clash of generations -- and cultures. In 1973, outside of Kenora, Ontario, Raymond Seymour, an eighteen-year-old Ojibway boy, is taken by a local policeman to a remote island and left for dead. A year later, the Byrd family arrives in Kenora. They have come to stay at "the Retreat," a commune run by the self-styled guru Doctor Amos. The Doctor is an enigmatic man who spouts bewildering truisms, and who bathes naked every morning in the pond at the edge of ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Mcclelland & Stewart Ltd
Date Published: 06/01/2009
ISBN-13:9780771012549ISBN:0771012543
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: McCelland and Stewart Ltd., Toronto
Date Published: 2008
Description: Fine (Book Condition). Fine (Jacket Condition) An excellent copy. Text clean, binding strong. [Our rating system: 1. Fine; 2. Near Fine; 3. Very Good; 4. Good; 5. Fair. ] read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780771012532ISBN:0771012535
Description: Fine. McClelland & Stewart 2008 SOFTCOVER. Prerelease version. Review"Bergen's characters move and breathe, demonstrating the delicate balance between hope and despair, salvation and damnation. "-Toronto Star "David Bergen is a master of taut, spare prose that's both erotic and hypnotic...."-Miriam Toews "Bergen's novels are marvels of spare prose and weighty emotion. "-Saturday Night "The writing of Winnipeg's David Bergen, who won a host of prizes including the Giller for his last novel, The ... read more
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