Willie : A Romance: Volume 1 of the King Years [Hardcover]

Heather Robertson (Author)

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Hardcover: 360 pages
Publisher: Lorimer; HB W/DJ edition (Jan 1 1983)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0888626711
ISBN-13: 978-0888626714
Product Dimensions: 23.1 x 16 x 3 cm
Shipping Weight: 1.5 Kg
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,277,477 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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"Heather Robertson has set herself a difficult and delicate task and has pulled it off with a wonderful mixture of bold irreverence and unabashed love." (Timothy Findley )

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Heather Robinson has made Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's bizarre and paradoxical psyche the mainspring of a historical novel of consummate invention, audacity and wit.

Set against the turbulent background of World War I and Canada's struggle to achieve political maturity, Willie: A Romance hurls Mackenzie King into not only a love affair but a love triangle. A unique and absorbing panorama of wartime Canada and wartime Ottawa, official and unofficial, the novel is richly peopled with historical characters: King, Talbot Papineau, Sir Wilifrid and Lady Laurier, Lord Beaverbrook, John D. Rockefller Jr., among others.

Sympathetic and fascinating, Willie: A Romance delves deeply into the secret life of Mackenzie King, exposing an extraordinary mixture of buffoonery and cunning, paranoia and ambition, puritanism and prurience.