- Paperback: 336 pages
- Publisher: Key Porter Books (Jan 28 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1554701112
- ISBN-13: 978-1554701117
- Product Dimensions: 20.3 x 13.5 x 2.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 295 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #334,686 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Product Description
Where White Horses Gallop is a haunting tale of three boys who leave their home of Beinn Barra to enlist in the legendary Cape Breton Highlanders in the Second World War: fisherman Hector MacDonald, gifted musician Benny Doucet, and Calum MacPherson, who has been accepted at Dalhousie to study medicine. The three friends sail off to war in November, 1941, while at home their families suffer through the pain and uncertainty of their absence. Heartwrenching, lyrical and profound, the novel traces the effects of war on those who fight, and on those who stay behind.
Praise for Where White Horses Gallop:
“Beatrice MacNeil has a brilliant insight into the souls of the wounded. This is a splendid novel.”?Alistair MacLeod
“Beatrice MacNeil has written a wonderful book, heart-wrenching in its story and lyrically beautiful in its telling. ?MacNeil’s language is pure poetry. Her vivid and original descriptions, her poetic metaphors and similes, and the graceful cadences of her sentences all remind us of the great pleasure to be had in the reading of finely crafted prose. When coupled with her expressive understanding of emotions, and her deep insights into character, the result is a profound and powerful novel.” ?The Globe and Mail
About the Author
BEATRICE MACNEIL is the bestselling author of Where White Horses Gallop, The Moonlight Skater, and There is a Mouse in the House of Miss Crouse. In 1999, she received the Tic Butler Award for outstanding contribution to Cape Breton writing and culture. She lives in Cape Breton.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
A Must Read for All Canadians,
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This review is from: Where White Horses Gallop: A Novel (Hardcover)
Where White Horses Gallop is a beautiful book. Set in Cape Breton, near the beginning of World War II, the reader is introduced to a small community of characters. Three young men go off to fight in Europe while one remains home fighting his own war. MacNeil's ability to make you see the community and feel their happiness and their pain is profound. The sense of loss of one community to the ravages of war, both through losses on the fields of battle and losses after the war, are indicative of losses felt throughout our country during this time. I was moved by the language, the beauty of small things and the tremendous sacrifice made by so many. This book tells a lesson through these lives that we all know. And we all know we should never forget. Reading this wonderful work of fiction made it all real to me again. Beatrice MacNeil is a wonderful new Canadian author! I encourage everyone to read this book!
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This review is from: Where White Horses Gallop: A Novel (Hardcover)
Once again Amazon has been amazing with the shipping of books to me, this book came so well wrapped and the shipping time was great. Love the book and the preview prior to purchasing.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Gothic jewel from Cape Breton rips open the heart.,
By Kent Sams (Oakville, Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Where White Horses Gallop: A Novel (Hardcover)
This book lingers like a war painting from a sentimental old master, still seeing the lilly beside a rotting corpse, the beautiful curve in a woman's mouth as she is paraded down a street covered in tar and feathers.... and still accepting the humanity of the insane.I couldn't put it down and when I did, I dreamed about it.
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