Author: HOOTON, MATTHEW
Title: Deloume Road
Description: Toronto: Knopf Canada, 2010. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0307398137. Light wear to book; A bright, solid book, DJ in protective Mylar sleeve, unclipped. ; 1.1 x 8.55 x 6.05 Inches; 320 pages; From a breathtakingly talented new writer: a beautifully written, gripping novel that weaves storytelling magic, life, love, and tragedy into the beauty of the Canadian landscape. 'Deloume Road' takes us into a hot August month on Vancouver Island during the first Gulf War, to a small rural community where the children's lives play out unchangingly in the woods and secret places - until they discover an object from the past that will come to haunt them all. Slowly we discover how intertwined are the lives of recent comers with long established neighbours: a Ukrainian butcher who yearns for his wife and small son left behind - and learns something disturbing; a widowed Korean girl who fears for the life of the baby she is carrying; a Native artist whose pilot son has crashed in the wilderness… And behind them all, the shadow of Gerard Deloume, whose suicide in 1899 set off a sequence of events that erupt a century later with violent, tragic consequences.. Very Good+ in Near Fine dust jacket .

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