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Also by Robert MacNeil:

Portrait of Julia, September 2013
Hardcover
Burden Of Desire, February 1992
Paperback
The Way We Were: 1963, The Year Kennedy Was Shot, February 1991
Hardcover

BURDEN OF DESIRE
By: Robert MacNeil

Nan A. Talese
February 1992
On Sale: February 11, 1992
466 pages
ISBN: 0385420196
EAN: 9780385420198
Paperback
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Historical | Fiction

Set against a vived backdrop of a world at war, Burden of Desire opens with a cataclysmic explosions that provides the novel's extraordinary central metaphor. The blast and its aftermath, which devastates Halifax, Nova Scotia, in 1917, rocks the lives of the three major characters, and ensures that the world as they know it will never be the same again.

Brilliantly blending suspense and eroticism with rich historical detail, Robert MacNeil sets the stage for one of the most provocative tales of desire and obsession to be found in recent fiction. Magnificent in scope, Burden of Desire is work of rare emotional power in which acts of love and war come vividly and sensually to life.

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