3 edition of Barometer rising found in the catalog.
Barometer rising
Hugh MacLennan
Published
1941
by Collins in Toronto
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Written in English
Edition Notes
| Statement | Hugh MacLennan. |
| Series | A Collins white circle -- 75 |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | PZ3 M22399 Ba |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | 255 p. -- |
| Number of Pages | 255 |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL14590134M |
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An estimated 2, were killed immediately and thousands more injured /5(16). Barometer Rising (New Canadian Library) by Hugh Maclennan and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at BAROMETER RISING is above all a novel of place and that place is Halifax, Nova Scotia in December MacLennan is very good at evoking the sights, colors, smells, and sounds of the city and its environs.
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Neil Macrae is the protagonist of Barometer Rising, a Canadian soldier whose sole purpose in the story is the clear his name of the slander by his uncle.
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The book's portrayal of women, particularly Penelope Wain, is restrictively Written: Hugh MacLennan's first novel is a compelling romance set against the horrors of wartime and the catastrophic Halifax Explosion of December 6,now available as a Penguin Modern the winter ofPenelope Wain is convinced her love, Neil Macrae, is Brand: McClelland & Stewart.
Barometer Rising Book Report Words | 9 Pages. Nevertheless, Colonel Wain takes it for granted that the English mattered and the Canadians did not. He believes Canada to be unredeemably provincial and cannot wait to get back to Europe. Men such as Wain help chain Canada to the past and hold back the rising tide of national identity.
Barometer rising. New York, Duell, Sloan and Pearce [©] (DLC) (OCoLC) Material Type: Document, Fiction, Internet resource: Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File: All Authors / Contributors: Hugh MacLennan.
Another entry from the Canadian New Library Series, another homerun for Canadian literature. That must necessarily be the ruling on this immensely engaging freshman effort from Hugh MacLennan, for "Barometer Rising" is a taut, intensely character driven novel from one of Canada's great essayists/5(5).
The foreword sets the stage when it says that this book "is one of the first ever written to use Halifax, Nova Scotia, as its sole background." Then it blew my mind by saying that there was "as yet no tradition of Canadian literature" at the time Barometer Rising was /5(8).
Penelope Wain believes that her lover, Neil Macrae, has been killed while serving overseas under her father. That he died apparently in disgrace does not alter her love for him, even though her father is insistent on his guilt.
What neither Penelope or her father knows is that Neil is not dead, but has returned to Halifax to clear his name. About Barometer Rising. Hugh MacLennan’s first novel is a compelling romance set against the horrors of wartime and the catastrophic Halifax Explosion of December 6,now available as a Penguin Modern Classic.
In the winter ofPenelope Wain is convinced her love, Neil Macrae, is dead–killed in action while serving overseas. Get this from a library.
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Barometer Rising (Book): MacLennan, Hugh: Random House, MacLennan's first novel is a compelling romance set against the horrors of wartime and the catastrophic Halifax Explosion of December 6,now available as a Penguin Modern the winter ofPenelope Wain is convinced her love, Neil Macrae, is dead.
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