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Who Has Seen the Wind?
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Canadian literature
- In Canadian literature: Modern period, 1900–60
…and My House (1941) by Sinclair Ross, Who Has Seen the Wind (1947) by W.O. Mitchell, and The Mountain and the Valley (1952) by Ernest Buckler, set in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis valley. These novels strain the bonds of conventional narrative structures as they shift from social realism toward lyricism. In…
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- In W.O. Mitchell
…notice for his first novel, Who Has Seen the Wind? (1947), a sensitive picture of a grim prairie town seen from the point of view of a small boy. Mitchell’s Jake and the Kid (1961) was later developed into a popular, long-running radio and television series. His novel The Kite…
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