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Lessons Book
Book | Alfred A. Knopf Canada, [Toronto, ON] : 2022.

  • 5 of 9 Copies Available at Libraries in Niagara Cooperative
  • 1 of 1 Copy Available at Fort Erie Library System (Show)
  • 0 current holds with 9 total copies.
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Centennial FIC MCEWA 2022 New Books Copy hold / Volume hold Available
Fleming FIC McEwa 2022 Fiction Copy hold / Volume hold Available
Fonthill FIC McEwa 2022 Fiction Copy hold / Volume hold Checked out
Grimsby Fic McEwa Adult Fiction Copy hold / Volume hold Available
Port Colborne FIC McEwa New Book Copy hold / Volume hold Checked out
Thorold FIC MCEWA Adult Fiction Copy hold / Volume hold Checked out
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"Both epic and intimate, the story of one man's life across generations and historical upheavals: a deeply affecting novel about love, loss, ambition, and resolution from the best-selling author of Atonement. When the world is still counting the cost of the Second World War and the Iron Curtain has closed, eleven-year-old Roland Baines's life is turned upside down. 2,000 miles from his mother's protective love, stranded at an unusual boarding school, his vulnerability attracts piano teacher Miss Miriam Cornell, leaving scars as well as a memory of love that will never fade. Now, when his wife vanishes, leaving him alone with his tiny son, Roland is forced to confront the reality of his restless existence. As the radiation from Chernobyl spreads across Europe, he begins a search for answers that looks deep into his family history and will last for the rest of his life. From the Suez Crisis to the Cuban Missile Crisis, the fall of the Berlin Wall to the current pandemic and climate change, Roland sometimes rides with the tide of history, but more often struggles against it. Haunted by lost opportunities, he seeks solace through every possible means<U+2014>music, literature, friends, sex, politics and, finally, love cut tragically short, then love ultimately redeemed. His journey raises important questions for us all. Can we take full charge of the course of our lives without damage to others? How do global events beyond our control shape our lives and our memories? And what can we really learn from the traumas of the past? Epic, mesmerising and deeply humane, Lessons is a chronicle for our times<U+2014>a powerful meditation on history and humanity through the prism of one man's lifetime."-- Provided by publisher.
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  • ISBN: 9781039004689
  • Physical Description: print431 pages
  • Publisher: [Toronto, ON] : Alfred A. Knopf Canada, 2022.
  • Copyright: ©2022

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