Visible Worlds: Winner of the Ethel Wilson Prize 1998 - Softcover

Visible Worlds

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 294 pages. Cover worn. Text tanned.Mesmerizing storytelling, great themes embodied and hidden in the workings of realistic relationships and lives, precise language and a strong whiff of the u ncanny - a magnificent novel. A moving and memorable epic tale that spans decad es and continents to bring us the riches of one family's history of intertwined lives. In the farming country of Winnipeg, two brothers grow up and apart in th e 1930s, gravitating towards a parent each as mother and father themselves find a changing climate in world affairs reaching out to their rural backwater and pr ising them asunder. Exhaustion is crippling FIka at the icecap; it's midwinte r 1960, and she's lost her companions to a frosty death, can barely carry her li feblood, and must still ski for a month yet to reach civilization on the other s ide of the North Pole. Will she survive? Where will she find the will? Quite ho w these two gripping tales on their separate sides of the globe unfold and come together as mesmerizingly as they do is the beauty and the accomplishment of thi s magical epic. Amazon Review Marilyn Bowering's Visible Worlds introduces at l east 12 characters, cuts from Winnipeg to Siberia to the North Pole, shifts back and forth in time from 1960 to 1934 and depicts three crucial deaths. And that' s just the first 14 pages. There's more to come--much more--in this book that ta kes on the Great Depression, World War II and the Korean War, exploring their ef fects on three improbably intertwined families. The plot's remarkable contortion s are too labyrinthine to describe here, but suffice to say they involve meteors , Nazis, several dead, deformed and abandoned babies, personal magnetism, labour camps, polar exploration, the Odd Fellows, circus performers and lots and lots. Artikel-Nr. 3644c

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