Adam's Peak

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Width:  5.5  Inches
Height:  8.5  Inches
Pages:  340
Format:  Paperback
Publication Date:  January 20, 2007
Illustrations:  None
Publisher:  Dundurn Press

Description

On a stifling August day, six-year-old Clare Fraser and seven-year-old Rudy Vantwest make eye contact from opposite sides of their street. For an instant they are connected, then each turns away “ Clare to the shelter of the garden sprinkler, Rudy to the excitement of his brotherès impending birth. Twenty-five years later, Clare and Rudy, strangers living continents apart, fixtures of each otherès memories and imaginations, are connected again. Overturning the guarded, insular lives they both lead, two events “ one an accident, the other an act of terror “ transform them both and bind the Vantwest and Fraser families irrevocably.

Adam‘s Peak weaves back and forth between a Montreal suburb and a Colombo private school, between a Ceylon tea estate at the end of theSecond World War and a small Scottish town in the early 1960s, its characters struggling desperately to come to terms with themselves and with their powerful connections to the people and places they have tried to escape.

Author

Heather Burt was born in 1965 and grew up in Montreal and Vancouver. She has an MA from the University of Montreal and has travelled extensively in Asia and Europe. She lives in Vancouver, where she teaches creative writing at Langara College and is working on her second novel.

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