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George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine''s heart disease, which could cause her death at any time, but the memory of Jerome Martell, her first husband and George''s closest friend. Martel, a brilliant doctor passionately concerned with social justice, is presumed to have died in a Nazi prison camp. His sudden return to Montreal precipitates the central crisis of the novel. Hugh MacLennan takes the reader into the lives of his three characters and back into the world of Montreal in the thirties, when politics could send an idealist across the world to Spain, France, Auschwitz, Russia, and China before his return home.

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The Watch That Ends the Night is a novel of affirmation ... The vanity of human wishes, death itself, are part of the mystery to be loved ... I would not trade MacLennan for a legion of beatniks or a whole flotilla-full of angry young men. Queen's Quarterly

The Watch That Ends the Night

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      Publisher McGill-Queen's University Press
      Published 18 May 2009
      ISBN-13 9780773524965
      978-0773524965
      ISBN-10 0773524967

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine''s heart disease, which could cause her death at any time, but the memory of Jerome Martell, her first husband and George''s closest friend. Martel, a brilliant doctor passionately concerned with social justice, is presumed to have died in a Nazi prison camp. His sudden return to Montreal precipitates the central crisis of the novel. Hugh MacLennan takes the reader into the lives of his three characters and back into the world of Montreal in the thirties, when politics could send an idealist across the world to Spain, France, Auschwitz, Russia, and China before his return home.

      Trade Review
      The Watch That Ends the Night is a novel of affirmation ... The vanity of human wishes, death itself, are part of the mystery to be loved ... I would not trade MacLennan for a legion of beatniks or a whole flotilla-full of angry young men. Queen's Quarterly

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