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Barometer Rising

novel by MacLennan

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  • MacLennan, Hugh
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    MacLennan’s first novel, Barometer Rising (1941), is a moral fable that uses as a background the actual explosion of a munitions ship that partly destroyed the city of Halifax in 1917. His later novels include Two Solitudes (1945), which explores Anglo-French relations in Canada; The Precipice (1948), a…

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