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In this follow-up to her acclaimed Crow Lake, Lawson again explores the moral quandaries of life in the Canadian North. At the story's poles are Arthur Dunn, a stolid, salt-of-the-earth farmer, and his brother, Jake, a handsome, smooth-talking snake in the grass, whose lifelong mutual resentments and betrayals culminate in a battle over the beautiful Laura, with Arthur, it seems, the unlikely winner. Observing, and eventually intervening in their saga, is Ian, a teenager who goes to work on Arthur's farm to get close to Laura, seeing in her the antithesis of the mother who abandoned his father and him. It's a standard romantic dilemma—who to choose: the goodhearted but dull provider or the seductive but unreliable rogue?—but it gains depth by being set in Lawson's epic narrative of the Northern Ontario town of Struan as it weathers Depression, war and the coming of television. It's a world of pristine landscapes and brutal winters, where beauty and harshness are inextricably intertwined, as when Ian brings home a puppy that gambols adorably about—and then playfully kills Ian's even cuter pet bunny. Lawson's evocative writing untangles her characters' confused impulses toward city and country, love and hate, good and evil. (Oct. 3)
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It's an age-old story--two brothers in love with the same woman--but in Lawson's masterful hands, the emotive tale of Arthur and Jake Dunn and the young woman who comes between them takes on a luminous originality. Set in a backwoods village in northern Canada, the story flashes back to 1930 to establish the tenacity of the Dunn brothers' relationship, and leaps forward to 1950, where Lawson, following her fine debut, Crow Lake (2002), cannily introduces a fourth element to the standard love triangle. Young Ian Christopherson, son of the town's only doctor, takes a summer job working on Arthur's farm, not because he craves the grueling labor but simply to be closer to Dunn's wife, Laura. When Jake resurfaces after more than a decade's absence, Ian interprets Laura's changed behavior in ways that will have devastating consequences. Lawson's melancholy saga of misspent youth, misplaced passion, and mistaken assumptions evinces both an enchanting delicacy and provocative vitality, and delivers an unerring sensitivity to place and time, people and passions. Carol Haggas
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Copyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
A Fine Followup to Lawson's First Novel,
By Kelly Rossiter (Toronto, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Other Side of the Bridge (Hardcover)
Readers of The Other Side of the Bridge will recognize the age old story of two brothers. Arthur is worthy, hard working and dull and Jake is the feckless and charming brother. Author Mary Lawson manages to write around those clichés and produce characters of depth and interest. The book is set during World War II with a parallel story set in the 1960s. By alternating settings each chapter the author to give us the background to the events that the reader sees played out. This is a fine follow up to Lawsons first novel Crow Lake.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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A time, a place. . .,
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This review is from: The Other Side of the Bridge (Hardcover)
I had never heard of Lawson but my cousin who lives in Victoria sent me this book as a Christmas present. Started reading it Christmas day and could not put it down. Lawson is able to write about a place and time and a people that is true. The story itself is nothing new: Brothers Jake and Arthur Dunn are in love with the same woman. The story flashes back in forth between the 1930s and the 1950s to cover the lives of the Dunn brothers and their love all set in a small Canadian back woods town. The characters make mistakes in love and life, much of it can be depressing, but there is also an over all love of life, a time and a place that come through in the end. Great reading! And now I am going to have to find a copy of "Crow Lake!"
10 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Stunningly Amazing.,
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This review is from: The Other Side of the Bridge (Hardcover)
As an avowed lover of "Crow Lake" I eagerly awaited Mary's second book. I got it when I picked up the mail last night, stayed up most of the night reading it, too a nap, called in sick to physio-torture-atherapyand then finished it.(Mom, if you are reading this "YES I lied about being sick - deal with it and enjoy the book when you get it from your reading club...you will uderstand why I did this!" Lord, 39 and still apologizing to my mother. Mary once again sets her story in Northern Ontario (yet is from Blackwell - I recognized who she modelled her characters on in "Crow Lake" - and Blackwell is really southern Ontartio!) and sets [NOT A SPOILER] up the perfect love triangle between two brothers and the woman they both loved. The triangle soon becomes a square as all deal with the Great Depression, and the inevability of war and its consequences. inextricably intertwined, as when Ian brings home a puppy that gambols adorably about The novel blends hatred and love and good vs. evil and you will be captured on every page by the lyrical prose she is known for. Best book I have read this year, honestly, truly and not saying that as we grew up the in same fly-spot. BRAVO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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