The Watch that Ends the Night
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780773524972 (0773524975)
Publish date: May 28th 2005
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Pages no: 372
Edition language: English
Beautiful prose and a wonderful evocation of Montreal in the 1930s and 40s--taking the characters through the Depression, two wars, and a romance with communism that eventually went bad. It's a love story that tells a bigger tale. The dialog was sometimes distractingly unnatural--characters too ofte...
Another reading assignment from my then girlfriend. It was an interesting read but not something I'd pick up on my own. Still, good emotional drama.