Random PassageBreakwater, 1992 - 269 páginas Forced to flee England, the Andrews family books passage to a fresh start in a distant country, only to discover a barren, inhospitable land at the end of their crossing. To seventeen-year-old Lavinia, uprooted from everything familiar, it seems a fate worse than the one they left behind. Driven by loneliness she begins a journal. Random Passage satisfies the craving for those details that headstones and history books can never give: the real story of our Newfoundland ancestors, of how time and chance brought them to the forbidding shores of a new found land. It is a saga of families and of individuals; of acquisitive Mary Bundle; of charming Ned Andrews, whose thievery has turned his family into exiles; of mad Ida; of Thomas Hutchings, who might be an aristocrat, a holy man, or a murderer; and of Lavinia - who wrote down the truth and lies about them all. Random Passage has been adapted into a CBC miniseries and is now a national bestseller. |
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Alex Andrews Annie arms asked baby beach become begins beside boat body bring brother Bundle called Cape carrying child church cloth comes dark door Emma eyes face fall Fanny Father feeling fire fish follow girl give hand head hear heard holding Isaac Island Jennie Josh keep Lavinia leave live look Mary mind morning mother move Ned's never night Norris once passed Patience Peter poor pulled remember rocks Rose Sarah says seal seems seen ship side silence sitting sleep smile sometimes sound standing stop summer sure talk tell things Thomas Hutchings thought told turns Vincent voice waiting walk watching wharf winter woman women wonders wood young
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This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment Melody Hessing,Rebecca Raglon,Catriona Sandilands Vista previa limitada - 2005 |