The sentimentalists : a novel

Skibsrud, Johanna 1980- (Author).

Summary: "Johanna Skibsrud's debut novel connects the flooding of an Ontario town, the Vietnam War, a trailer in North Dakota and an unfinished boat in Maine. Parsing family history, worn childhood memories, and the palimpsest of old misunderstandings, Skibsrud<U+2019>s narrator maps her father<U+2019>s past. Napoleon Haskell lives with Henry in the town of Casablanca, Ontario, on the shores of a man-made lake beneath which lie the remains of the former town. Henry is the father of Napoleon<U+2019>s friend Owen, who died fighting in Vietnam. When her life comes apart, Napoleon<U+2019>s daughter retreats to Casablanca and is soon immersed in the complicated family stories that lurk below the surface of everyday life. With its quiet mullings and lines from Bogart, The Sentimentalists captures a daughter<U+2019>s wrestling with a heady family mythology."-

Record details

ISBN: 9781554470785 (pbk.) :
ISBN: 9781553658955
Physical Description: print
216 p. ; 22 cm.
Publisher: Vancouver : Douglas & McIntyre, 2010, c2009.

Content descriptions

General Note:	Originally published: 2009. Originally published: Kentville, N.S. : Gaspereau Press, 2009.
Additional Physical Form available Note:	Issued also in electronic format.
Action Note:	Committed to retain 20170101 20321231 COPPUL SPAN Monograph
Awards Note:	Scotiabank Giller Prize Winner 2010