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W. W. Norton & Company
May 2011
On Sale: May 2, 2011
280 pages
ISBN: 0393082512
EAN: 9780393082517
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Fiction Family Life
Haunted by the vivid horrors of the Vietnam War, exhausted
from years spent battling his memories, Napoleon Haskell
leaves his North Dakota trailer and moves to Canada. He
retreats to a small Ontario town where Henry, the father of
his fallen Vietnam comrade, has a home on the shore of a
man-made lake. Under the water is the wreckage of what was
once the town - and the home where Henry was raised. When
Napoleon's daughter arrives, fleeing troubles of her own,
she finds her father in the dark twilight of his life, and
rapidly slipping into senility. With love and insatiable
curiosity, she devotes herself to learning the truth about
his life; and through the fog, Napoleon's past begins to emerge. Lyrical and riveting, The Sentimentalists is a story of what
lies beneath the surface of everyday life, and of the
commanding power of the past. Johanna Skibsrud's first novel
marks the debut of a powerful new voice in Canadian fiction.
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