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Featured Book: Fall 2011
Written by Wayne Johnston
Hardcover | 320 pages | Knopf Canada | Fiction
978-0-307-39989-2 | August 9, 2011 | $32.00
Beloved author Wayne Johnston returns to the territory of his #1 national bestseller The Colony of Unrequited Dreams with this sweeping tale of ambition, remorse and hope.
A World Elsewhere has all the hallmarks of Wayne Johnston's most beloved and acclaimed novels: outsiders yearning for acceptance, dreams that threaten to overpower their makers, and unlikely romance. It is an astounding work of literature that questions the loyalties of friends, family and the heart. At the centre of this story is a mystery: the suspected murder of a child. This sweeping tale immerses us in St. John's, Princeton and North Carolina at the close of the nineteenth century. Landish Druken is a formidable figure: broader than most doorways, quick-witted and sharp-tongued. As a student at Princeton, he is befriended by George Vandermill, son of one of the wealthiest men in America. Years later, when Landish and his adopted son turn to Vandermill for help, he invites them to his self-constructed castle and pulls them into his web of lies and deceit
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WAYNE JOHNSTON
Wayne Johnston was born and raised in the St. John's area of Newfoundland. His nationally bestselling novels include
The Custodian of Paradise, The Navigator of New York and
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, which was an international bestseller and will be made into a film. Johnston is also the author of an award-winning and bestselling memoir, Baltimore's Mansion.
He lives in Toronto.
Wayne Johnston was born and raised in the St. John's area of Newfoundland. His nationally bestselling novels include
The Custodian of Paradise, The Navigator of New York and
The Colony of Unrequited Dreams, which was an international bestseller and will be made into a film. Johnston is also the author of an award-winning and bestselling memoir, Baltimore's Mansion.
He lives in Toronto.
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