Barometer rising book edmonton public library bibliocommons. Hugh maclennans first novel is a compelling romance set against the horrors of wartime and the catastrophic halifax explosion of december 6. Barometer rising by hugh maclennan fantastic fiction. If you have ever visited that small, but charming city, you would probably enjoy reading this novel just for nostalgias sake. Barometer rising by hugh maclennanadapted for radio by rita greer allen canadas most famous explosion halifax, december 6, hugh maclennan s first novel is a compelling romance set against the horrors of wartime and the catastrophic halifax explosion of. Download barometer rising pdf download barometer rising erub. Maclennan is very good at evoking the sights, colors, smells, and sounds of the city and its environs. Barometer rising is hugh maclennan s enormously ambitious first novel, a closely plotted and compulsively readable book that combines its authors love for nationalist melodrama with the grisly realism of a folk disasterballad. Analysis of hugh maclennans novels, barometer rising, barometer rising novel. Hugh maclennans first novel is a compelling romance set against the horrors of wartime and the catastrophic halifax explosion of december 6, 1917.
The love triangle of penelope wain, neil macrae and angus murray is the novels centerpiece, but add in the chaotic intrigue of macraes disgrace. I wanted to have finished barometer rising by hugh maclennan before the anniversary of the halifax explosion but that didnt happen so i better. Published in 1941, as the second world war was ripening into its full horror, barometer rising looks back to the halifax of the last year of the first world war, and. Hugh maclennan s first novel is a compelling romance set against the horrors of wartime and the catastrophic halifax explosion of december 6, 1917. Barometer rising is hugh maclennans enormously ambitious first novel, a closely plotted and compulsively readable book that combines its authors love for nationalist melodrama with the grisly realism of a folk disasterballad. Barometer rising is above all a novel of place and that place is halifax, nova scotia in december 1917. Halifax, with its colonial attitudes overlaying social and. Barometer rising kindle edition by maclennan, hugh. Hugh maclennan s barometer rising, written in 1941, is the symbolic purgation of the old english dominated canada and the dawn of a new canada brought about by the december 1917 halifax explosion. A competent, but not great writer, maclennan portrays. Hugh maclennans first novel is a compelling romance set against the horrors of wartime and the catastrophic halifax explosion of december 6, 1917, now. Adapted for radio by rita greer allen canadas most famous explosion halifax, december 6, 1917 became in the skillful hands of author hugh maclennan an integral part of one of the bestknown canadian novels, barometer rising.
Complete summary of hugh maclennan s barometer rising. Burden of desire electronic resource ebook robert macneil. Read, highlight, and take notes, across web, tablet, and phone. What neither penelope or her father knows is that neil is not dead, but has returned to halifax to clear his name. The love triangle of penelope wain, neil macrae and angus murray is the novels centerpiece, but add in the chaotic intrigue of macraes disgraceridden return from the war, the manipulation and. Penelope wain believes that her lover, neil macrae, has been killed while serving overseas under her father. Penelope wain believes that her lover, neil macrae. The work explores life in halifax, nova scotia during world war i, and its.
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