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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... voice is flat again , " the ice should break up any day now . If this cold snap passes we'll see some seals , and I expect Caleb Gosse to put flour and molasses on the first vessel he sends north . " Lavinia fancies she can hear ...
... voice is flat again , " the ice should break up any day now . If this cold snap passes we'll see some seals , and I expect Caleb Gosse to put flour and molasses on the first vessel he sends north . " Lavinia fancies she can hear ...
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... voice , so youthful , so deep , so vibrant , so at variance with the man's appearance , rises and falls . Then the voice stops , everything stops . Lavinia could swear that even the sea beneath them is silent . Then the arms sweep down ...
... voice , so youthful , so deep , so vibrant , so at variance with the man's appearance , rises and falls . Then the voice stops , everything stops . Lavinia could swear that even the sea beneath them is silent . Then the arms sweep down ...
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... voice , and I found Josh Vincent's voice especially appealing . It had a soft child - like quality that made you lean forward to catch every word . " But Mr. Vincent , this place is exposed to the sea with no harbour , hardly any flat ...
... voice , and I found Josh Vincent's voice especially appealing . It had a soft child - like quality that made you lean forward to catch every word . " But Mr. Vincent , this place is exposed to the sea with no harbour , hardly any flat ...
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Alex Brennan Annie ashore asked baby barrels beach Ben Andrews Ben's boat brother Caleb Gosse Cape Captain Charlie child church cloth comes dark door Ellsworth Emma eyes face Fanny Father Fitzgerald feeling fire fish store Frank Norris girl grey hair hand Hazel head hear holding Isaac Jane Jennie Jim Rice John's Josh Vincent kitchen La Truite Lavinia thinks Lizzie look Mary Bundle Mary's Matt Carroll Meg's Monk Street morning mother Ned Andrews Ned's never night nods Norris house partridgeberries Patience Peter Vincent Pond Island pulled remember rocks Rose s'pose Sarah Vincent says seal seems seen ship silence sitting sleep smell smile standing stop summer talk tell Tern things Thomas Hutchings thought told turns Vincent house Vinnie voice walk watching Weymouth wharf Willie winter woman women wonders wood words Young Joe youngsters
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This Elusive Land: Women and the Canadian Environment Melody Hessing,Rebecca Raglon,Catriona Sandilands Vista previa limitada - 2005 |