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Johnston, Wayne.
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Missing persons -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction.
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Johnston, Wayne.
Missing persons -- Fiction.
Secrecy -- Fiction.
Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction.
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First snow, last light / Wayne Johnston.
by
Johnston, Wayne.
Alfred A. Knopf Canada, c2017.
Call #:
FICTION
JOH
Subjects
Missing persons --
Fiction
.
Secrecy --
Fiction
.
Newfoundland and Labrador --
Fiction
.
ISBN:
9780735272569 (hc.)
Description:
492 p. ; 24 cm.
Summary:
Ned Vatcher, only 14, ambles home from school in the chill hush that precedes the first storm of the winter of 1936 to find the house locked, the family car missing, and his parents gone without a trace. From that point on, his life is driven by the need to find out what happened to the Vanished Vatchers. His father, Edgar, born to a poor family of fishermen, had risen to become the right-hand man to the colony's prime minister, then suffered an unexpected fall from grace. Were he and his wife murdered? Was it suicide? Had they run away? If so, why had they left their only child behind? Ned soon finds himself enmeshed in another family, that of his missing father and the poverty from which the man somehow escaped. His grandparents, Nan and Reg, his Uncle Cyril and others, are themselves haunted by the inexplicable disappearance of a third Vatcher, a young man who was lost at sea on a calm and sunny day years earlier. Two other people loom large as Ned becomes Newfoundland's first media mogul, building an empire to insulate him from loss: a Jesuit priest named Father Duggan, and Sheilagh Fielding, a boozy giantess who, while wandering the city streets at night, composes satiric columns that scandalize the rich and powerful. In Ned, Fielding sees a surrogate for her two lost children, the secret that dogs her life, while Ned believes the enigmatic Fielding to be his soulmate.
Genre:
Historical
fiction
.
Canadian
fiction
.
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