This time he didn’t cheer aloud, feeling no sense of community; it had been better in the beer parlour, when he’d seen it first. But he sat on, ostensibly quietly, nursing his cigarette, and in his head, in sympathy with the soundtrack, in sympathy with the pulse in his temple, his disembodied interior voice was screaming: “GO, GO, GO, GO, GO, GO, GO, GO.” It would go on screaming until the race was over.
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God’s Sparrows
Philip Child
Introduction by James R. Calhoun
A horrifying description of war, specifically embodied in the vain and inglorious futility of the First World War, God’s Sparrows is a novel rich in compassion and firm in its faith in the human spirit. Philip Child created a Canadian family saga, a modern pilgrim’s progress in which individuals surmount the corrosive effects of brutality, maintaining their ability to love and endure under the most agonizing circumstances. His book, first published in 1937, remains as a stirring testimony to that ability. It offers profound insight into the experience of the First World War, not just as a catastrophe affecting his characters but as a crucible in which the whole of this nation found itself tried.
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Hood, Hugh, 1928-2000, author
(Voyageur classics)
Previously published: Erin, Ontario: Porcupine’s Quill, 1987.
Short stories.
Issued in print and electronic formats.
ISBN 978-1-4597-3855-3 (softcover).--ISBN 978-1-4597-3856-0 (PDF).--
ISBN 978-1-4597-3857-7 (EPUB)
I. Gnarowski, Michael, 1934-, writer of introduction II. Title.
III. Series: Voyageur classics
PS8515.O49A159 2017 C813’.54 C2017-902149-4
C2017-902150-8
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Table of Contents
Cover
OTHER VOYAGEUR CLASSICS TITLES
Contents
Hugh Hood: An Introductory Note
Sober Colouring: The Ontology of Super-Realism by Hugh Hood
Fallings from Us, Vanishings
O Happy Melodist!
Silver Bugles, Cymbals, Golden Silks
Recollections of the Works Department
Three Halves of a House
He Just Adores Her!
Nobody’s Going Anywhere!
Flying a Red Kite
Where the Myth Touches Us
The End of It
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