Not Wanted on the VoyageViking, 1984 - 352 pages From one of Canada's most distinguished novelists comes this brilliant and wild retelling of the story of Noah and the Great Flood that has been acclaimed by critics everywhere. Findley's earlier novel, Wars, received Canada's Governor's Award and the City of Toronto's Book Award. |
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... darkness she moved in was not completely dark . There were edges to it — pale , thin watery edges over which the shape of static things and sometimes moving things encroached : a flight of birds , a running dog or the leaping , jerky ...
... darkness she moved in was not completely dark . There were edges to it — pale , thin watery edges over which the shape of static things and sometimes moving things encroached : a flight of birds , a running dog or the leaping , jerky ...
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... dark it had reached the lower edges of the upper meadow . The meadow now was massed with creatures of every size ... dark - beneath the rain and beneath the sound of the bell , they were numb to every sense but the faintest sense of hope ...
... dark it had reached the lower edges of the upper meadow . The meadow now was massed with creatures of every size ... dark - beneath the rain and beneath the sound of the bell , they were numb to every sense but the faintest sense of hope ...
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... dark and trying to conjure even the least bit of light with her one good eye — which , for all it was not completely blind as the other , was less and less able to deliver any sense of a break in the darkness . Light would soon be ...
... dark and trying to conjure even the least bit of light with her one good eye — which , for all it was not completely blind as the other , was less and less able to deliver any sense of a break in the darkness . Light would soon be ...
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afraid altar altar bell angel animals apples apron arms Barky bath house beasts began beneath Bip and Ringer birds blue breath cage cedar grove chamomile child cormorant cried Crowe dark dead deck demons Doctor Noyes door dragons dreadful dust earth Emma Emma's eyes face Faeries father feet fell fingers galley gone grass hair Ham and Lucy hand head hear heard hiding Hill Japeth kittens knew lambs lemurs lifted lips Lotte Lotte's Lucy's Michael Archangelis mother Mottyl mouth move never Noah Noah's Noyes looked Noyes's once orchard paused PHYLLIS WEBB Pirates poop deck pray Rabbi Akiva rain river seen sheep Shem shoulder side silent sing Sister Hannah sleep slowly smell smiled sound staring stepped stood tell thing thought Timothy Findley told trees turned Unicorn voice waited walking wall watched whispered wife wolves wondered wood yard Yaweh