You Went Away: A NovellaHarperCollins Publishers, 1996 - 218 pages Findley has written a small gem of a novel in this World War II story set on the Home Front. Findley uses the device of a family photo album to recall the personal history and memories of the boy, Matthew Forbes, whose parents' marriage is dissolving during the time of the false peace of wartime Canada. |
À l'intérieur du livre
Résultats 1-3 sur 4
Page 145
... quiet ? All the aeroplanes have stopped . " Not that it was entirely silent . There were flies and mosquitoes - but largely , it was as if there was no Air Base nearby , or a highway beyond the woods . No human beings . No human ...
... quiet ? All the aeroplanes have stopped . " Not that it was entirely silent . There were flies and mosquitoes - but largely , it was as if there was no Air Base nearby , or a highway beyond the woods . No human beings . No human ...
Page 193
... quiet . As the party made its way along the ranks , the birds simply stepped aside , as if the Prime Minister's shoes and spats were an everyday encounter . Graeme had stashed four peppermint candies in his cheeks , so that his one shot ...
... quiet . As the party made its way along the ranks , the birds simply stepped aside , as if the Prime Minister's shoes and spats were an everyday encounter . Graeme had stashed four peppermint candies in his cheeks , so that his one shot ...
Page 194
... on a turntable . Even the birds turned a hundred and eighty degrees . A quiet descended unlike any Matthew had ever experienced . Six or seven hundred people and not a sound . The fog looked more and more like drifting smoke . 194.
... on a turntable . Even the birds turned a hundred and eighty degrees . A quiet descended unlike any Matthew had ever experienced . Six or seven hundred people and not a sound . The fog looked more and more like drifting smoke . 194.
Table des matières
Section 1 | 1 |
Section 2 | 5 |
Section 3 | 10 |
Droits d'auteur | |
27 autres sections non affichées
Autres éditions - Tout afficher
Expressions et termes fréquents
aeroplane Alex Ross Anne Howard arette arms bathroom Bette Davis Betty Grable blue Bonnie Camp Borden Cary Grant chair cigarette damn dead dining-room door dress drink Ellen Eloise eyes face father fingers Flying Officer Forbes Foxbar glass gone goodbye Graeme Graeme's Gray Green Parrot hair hand heard Hello Henderson Isabel Ivan Ivan Henderson Ivan's laughed leaned light Loretta Matthew Forbes Matthew looked Mattie mess Mi's Michael Maude Miss Rose Mister Mortson mother motorcycle never night nodded Okay parade ground photograph playing porch Red Wilson Rupert Shanty Bay shoulder silent sitting smell smiled someone sorry Spitfire standing stared sure tell Thank There's thing thought Timothy Findley told took Trenton turned waited walked watched waved wearing What's Willows window wings woman women wore Yonge Street