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The Whirlpool

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Written in luminous prose, The Whirlpool is a haunting tale set in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in the summer of 1889. This is the season of reckless river stunts, a time when the undertaker’s widow is busy with funerals, her days shadowed by her young son’s curious silence. Across the street in Kick’s Hotel, where Fleda and her husband, David McDougal, have temporary rooms, Fleda dreams of the place above the whirlpool where she first encountered the poet, a man who enters her life and, unwittingly, changes everything. As the summer progresses, the lives of these characters become entangled, and darker, more sinister currents gain momentum.

The Whirlpool, Jane Urquhart’s first novel, received Le prix du meilleur livre étranger in France and marked the brilliant debut of a major voice in Canadian fiction.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Language: English

Pages: 248

Format: Paperback

Publisher: New Canadian Library

Release: May 21, 2002

ISBN: 0771034768

ISBN 13: 9780771034763

The Whirlpool

0/5 ( ratings)

Written in luminous prose, The Whirlpool is a haunting tale set in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in the summer of 1889. This is the season of reckless river stunts, a time when the undertaker’s widow is busy with funerals, her days shadowed by her young son’s curious silence. Across the street in Kick’s Hotel, where Fleda and her husband, David McDougal, have temporary rooms, Fleda dreams of the place above the whirlpool where she first encountered the poet, a man who enters her life and, unwittingly, changes everything. As the summer progresses, the lives of these characters become entangled, and darker, more sinister currents gain momentum.

The Whirlpool, Jane Urquhart’s first novel, received Le prix du meilleur livre étranger in France and marked the brilliant debut of a major voice in Canadian fiction.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Language: English

Pages: 248

Format: Paperback

Publisher: New Canadian Library

Release: May 21, 2002

ISBN: 0771034768

ISBN 13: 9780771034763

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