A literary romance, with a rich cast of characters, set on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls in the summer of 1889. In her stunning debut novel, renowned Canadian novelist Jane Urquhart staked her claim as a major storyteller of her generation. It is the summer at Niagara Falls and the undertaker's wife is busy, for this is the season of crazy stunts and frequent accidents. Across the street, in Kirk's Hotel, Fleda McDougal lives and breathes to the sonorous rhythms of Robert Browning's poetry. Her emotionally distant ...
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A literary romance, with a rich cast of characters, set on the Canadian side of Niagara Falls in the summer of 1889. In her stunning debut novel, renowned Canadian novelist Jane Urquhart staked her claim as a major storyteller of her generation. It is the summer at Niagara Falls and the undertaker's wife is busy, for this is the season of crazy stunts and frequent accidents. Across the street, in Kirk's Hotel, Fleda McDougal lives and breathes to the sonorous rhythms of Robert Browning's poetry. Her emotionally distant husband, Major David McDougal, is a military historian, who only comes to life when arguing that Canada, and not the United States, really won the War of 1812. And it is in this place, beside the Niagara whirlpool, in a glade below the falls, that Fleda first encounters the chronically ill clerk and would-be poet, Patrick--the man destined to change her life. The New York Times wrote, "A strange and sensual first novel. . . Miss Urquhart is a special writer, worth watching on both sides of Niagara Falls." This is for any lover of Victorian-era fiction.
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DJ by Lisa Clark. Fine in Near Fine jacket. pp. 214. 3600 shelf. Gold-stamped burgundy cloth spine w/ embossed slate blue bds. No names, clean text. Price-clipped dust jacket features painting "Niagara Falls 1853" by Jasper F. Cropsey. Story by the well-known poet.
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Very Fine in Very Fine jacket. 8.5 x 5.5 x.75. Hardcover. Book Condition: Very Fine. Jacket Condition: Very Fine. David R Godine Pub, 1990. 214 pages. Nice Firm Clean copy! Unmarked. Size: 8.5 x 5.5 x.75. Fiction Modern: General 6849.
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Near Fine in Very Good jacket. Fine in Near Fine jacket 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. pp.214. A strange unbelievable tale of Victorian obsession. clean tight copy former owner name circled out in ink on frontpiece slight rubbings to covers.
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This novel begins with the last days of Robert Browning and also ends with him. The book is set in Niagara Falls Ontario, summer of the year 1899. I centers on 4 main characters. David, an historian and his wife Fleda, who decide to live by the falls. David is obsessed with military history, especially Laura Secord. Fleda is obsessed with the poet Robert Browning and the whirlpool (at the botttom of the falls. Patrick, a poet, comes to Niagara Falls and befriends David, so that he can get close to Fleda. He has secretly been watching her, while she reads poetry and gazes at the whirlpool.
The widow Maude manages an undertaking business. She is very methodical in everything she does. She waits for the impending suicides and accidently deaths that she knows will be coming. From each body she keeps their effects. These are the poor unfortunate souls who have tried to ride the falls or swim the whirpool and have failed. Her poor son, since his father died is believed to be touched in the head and mute. He can say some words. He knows alot more than people think.
All of these people end up bound in some way to each other and bound by the Whirlpool itself. Very different, yet enjoyable read. I recommend this book highly.
