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LOST IN SEPTEMBER
From one of Canada's most exciting writers comes a gripping, compassionate, and stunning novel that overturns and rewrites history
As a young soldier in his early twenties, James Wolfe was granted two weeks' leave to travel to Paris to study poetry, music and dancethree of his passions. But in that very year, 1752, the British Empire abandoned the Julian calendar for the Gregorian, and every citizen of England lost eleven days: September 2 was followed by September 14. These lost days happened to be eleven of the fourteen that James Wolfe had been granted for his leave. Wolfe, despondent and bitter, never got the chance to explore his artistic bent. And seven short years later, on the anniversary of this foreshortened leave, he died on the Plains of Abraham.
Now, in Kathleen Winter's brilliant novel, Wolfe is getting his eleven days back ... but instead of the salons of 18th century Paris, he's wandering the streets of present-day Montreal and Quebec City, not as the Hero of Quebec but as a war veteran with PTSD, wracked with anguish over whether his sacrifice was in vain.
Winter takes a brief, intensely personal incident in the life of a famous historical figure, and using her incomparable gifts as a fiction writer, she powerfully reimagines him. Here is a wrenching, unforgettable portrait, like none you have ever seen or read, of one of the most well-known figures of Canadian history.
KATHLEEN WINTER'S first collection of short stories, boYs, was the winner of the Winterset Award and the Metcalfe-Rooke Award. In 2011 she published her first full-length novel, Annabel, which has been sold in 15 countries and received major international recognition, including nominations for The Orange Prize, The Scotiabank Giller Prize, The Governor General's Literary Award and the Writer's Trust Prize. In 2014 she published an inspirational travel memoir, Boundless, which was nominated for the RBC Taylor Prize, the Hilary Westin Prize for Nonfiction and the Mavis Gallant Prize. She lives and works in Montreal, Quebec.
Now, in Kathleen Winter's brilliant novel, Wolfe is getting his eleven days back ... but instead of the salons of 18th century Paris, he's wandering the streets of present-day Montreal and Quebec City, not as the Hero of Quebec but as a war veteran with PTSD, wracked with anguish over whether his sacrifice was in vain.
Winter takes a brief, intensely personal incident in the life of a famous historical figure, and using her incomparable gifts as a fiction writer, she powerfully reimagines him. Here is a wrenching, unforgettable portrait, like none you have ever seen or read, of one of the most well-known figures of Canadian history.
KATHLEEN WINTER'S first collection of short stories, boYs, was the winner of the Winterset Award and the Metcalfe-Rooke Award. In 2011 she published her first full-length novel, Annabel, which has been sold in 15 countries and received major international recognition, including nominations for The Orange Prize, The Scotiabank Giller Prize, The Governor General's Literary Award and the Writer's Trust Prize. In 2014 she published an inspirational travel memoir, Boundless, which was nominated for the RBC Taylor Prize, the Hilary Westin Prize for Nonfiction and the Mavis Gallant Prize. She lives and works in Montreal, Quebec.
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Published 2017-09-01 by Knopf Canada |