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Greenwood
Book |
McClelland & Stewart,
[Toronto, Ontario] :
[2019]
- 1 of 13 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative (Show)
- 0 of 2 Copies Available at Fort Erie Library System
- 3 current holds with 13 total copies.
| Branch | Call Number | Location | Holdable? | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Centennial | FIC CHRIS 2019 | Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | In transit |
| Crystal Ridge | FIC CHRIS 2019 | Fiction | Copy hold / Volume hold | Checked out |
About
"They come for the trees. It is 2038. As the rest of humanity struggles through the environmental collapse known as the Great Withering, scientist Jake Greenwood is working as an overqualified tour guide on Greenwood Island, a remote oasis of thousand-year-old trees. Jake had thought the island's connection to her family name just a coincidence, until someone from her past reappears with a book that might give her the family history she's long craved. From here, we gradually move backwards in time to the years before the First World War, encountering along the way the men and women who came before Jake: an injured carpenter facing the possibility of his own death, an eco-warrior trying to atone for the sins of her father's rapacious timber empire, a blind tycoon with a secret he will pay a terrible price to protect, and a Depression-era drifter who saves an abandoned infant from certain death, only to find himself the subject of a country-wide manhunt. At the very centre of the book is a tragedy that will bind the fates of two boys together, setting in motion events whose reverberations we see unfold over generations, as the novel moves forward into the future once more. A magnificent novel of inheritance, sacrifice, nature, and love that takes its structure from the nested growth rings of a tree, Greenwood spans generations to tell the story of a family living and dying in the shadows cast by its own secrets. With this breathtaking feat of storytelling, Michael Christie masterfully reveals the tangled knot of lies, omissions, and half-truths that exists at the root of every family's origin story."--Publisher.
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Details
- ISBN: 0771024452
- ISBN: 9780771024450
- ISBN: 9780771024481
- Physical Description: print490 pages : illustration
- Publisher: [Toronto, Ontario] : McClelland & Stewart, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
- General Note: LSC 35.00Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel, 2020.
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Awards Note:
Arthur Ellis Award for Best Novel, 2020.