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The Strangers’ Gallery

Created by: Paul Bowdring
Publisher: Nimbus Publishing
SKU: NB1103

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St. John’s archivist Michael Lowe’s life is turned on its head when a Dutch acquaintance, Anton Aalders, arrives on his doorstep in 1995. Anton is searching for a father he never met, ostensibly a Newfoundland soldier who was part of the Allied forces that liberated the Netherlands at the end of the Second World War. Anton’s visit stretches from a few days to a few months, reluctant as he is to go in search of his father, and keen to learn as much as he can about Newfoundland, its history, and its people. Rabble-rouser and ardent Newfoundland patriot Brendan “Miles” Harnett, Michael’s friend and sometime bugbear, is obsessed with his own search for the lost “fatherland” of Newfoundland, which relinquished its political independence in 1934. Miles is only too eager to teach Anton—and Michael—the shameful, forgotten history (as he sees it) of the lost country of Newfoundland. The Strangers’ Gallery is a finely crafted, at times humorous, novel about the painful search for identity—both political and personal.

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A rich and expansive novel, comic and erudite, wise and down-to-earth in its depiction of the joys and disappointments in the modern world. The Strangers’ Gallery will confirm Paul Bowdring’s reputation as one of the most insightful, witty, and readable Newfoundland writers of his generation … An alegy for a certain vision of Newfoundland, an examination of the way in which the past, both collective and personal, impinges upon the present, and a meditation on the ways in which we give meaning to our lives.

 

The Strangers’ Gallery will confirm Paul Bowdring’s reputation as one of the most insightful, witty, and readable Newfoundland writers of his generation … An alegy for a certain vision of Newfoundland, an examination of the way in which the past, both collective and personal, impinges upon the present, and a meditation on the ways in which we give meaning to our lives.

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Weight546 g
Dimensions6 × 9.25 in
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Publisher

Awards this title has won

BMO Winterset Award (NF and L Arts Council) Nominated International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award

Binding

Paperback

Language

Date Published

September 24 2013

Status

ACTIVE TITLE

No of Pages

360

ISBN

9781771080262