The mystery of right and wrong / Wayne Johnston.
The mystery of right and wrong / Wayne Johnston.
By
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Johnston, Wayne, 1958-
Publication Date
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2021
Publication Information
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Toronto : Alfred A. Knopf Canada,
Physical Description
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552 p.
Subject Term
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Sisters -- Fiction.
Dysfunctional families -- Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Geographic Term
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Newfoundland and Labrador -- Fiction.
Genre
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Canadian fiction.
Summary
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Wade Jackson, a young man from a Newfoundland outport, wants to be a writer. In the university library in St. John's, where he goes every day to absorb the great books of the world, he encounters the fascinating, South African-born Rachel van Hout, and soon they are lovers. Rachel is the youngest of four van Hout daughters. Her father, Hans, lived in Amsterdam during the Second World War, and says he was in the Dutch resistance. When the war ended, he emigrated to South Africa, where he met his wife, Myra, had his daughters and worked as an accounting professor at the University of Cape Town. Something happened, though, that caused him to uproot his family and move them all, unhappily, to Newfoundland. Wade soon discovers that Rachel and her sisters are each in their own way a wounded soul. The oldest, Gloria, has a string of broken marriages behind her. Carmen is addicted to every drug her Afrikaner dealer husband, Fritz, can lay his hands on. Bethany, the most sardonic of the sisters, is fighting a losing battle with anorexia. And then there is Rachel, who reads The Diary of Anne Frank obsessively, and diarizes her days in a secret language of her own invention, writing to the point of breakdown and beyond--an obsession that has deeper and more disturbing roots than Wade could ever have imagined.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9780735281639
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