Two Solitudes (New Canadian Library)

Two Solitudes (New Canadian Library)

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<i>First time in the New Canadian Library<br></i><br>€œNorthwest of Montreal, through a valley always in sight of the low mountains of the Laurentian Shield, the Ottawa River flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec. It comes down broad and ale-coloured and joins the Saint Lawrence, the two streams embrace the pan of Montreal Island, the Ottawa merges and loses itself, and the main-stream moves northeastward a thousand miles to sea.€<br><br>With these words Hugh MacLennan begins his powerful saga of Athanase Tallard, the son of an aristo-cratic French-Canadian tradition, of Kathleen, his beautiful Irish wife, and of their son Paul, who struggles to establish a balance in himself and in the country he calls home.<br><br>First published in 1945, and set mostly in the time of the First World War, <i>Two Solitudes</i> is a classic novel of individuals working out the latest stage in their embroiled history.<br><br><br><i>From the Paperback edition.</i>