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From a gifted storyteller and one of Canada’s most respected
journalists, The Long Stretch is a saga of love and war, the story of
those who have "gone away" and those who are compelled to stay.
In one apocalyptic night, John Gillis and his estranged cousin
Sextus confront a half century of half-truths and suppositions that have shaped
and scarred their lives, their families and their insular Cape Breton community.
Telling stories that unravel a host of secrets, they begin to realize that they
were damaged before they were born, their fathers and a close friend forming an
unholy trilogy in a tragic moment of war. Among the roots of a complex and
painful relationship, they uncover the truth of a fateful day John has spent 20
years trying to forget.
Taut and brilliantly paced, etched with quiet humour and crafted
with fiery dialogue, The Long Stretch is a mesmerizing novel in
the tradition of Alistair MacLeod, David Adams Richards and Ann-Marie MacDonald.
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Critical Praise for
The Long Stretch
"Powerful.... Speaks in fragments, like bursts of gunfire.... MacIntyre’s values—and his novel—are creatures of the skeptical contemporary world: impatient with sentiment, hungry for facts."
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The Globe and Mail
"Evokes the complex relations that can draw families together and yet slowly drive them apart."
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Quill & Quire
"[A] stylistically assured and mature first novel."
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Toronto Star
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Causeway
Linden MacIntyre remembers vividly the day construction started on the causeway. September 15, 1952, was the day that Change—always for the better and always from away—arrived to link his small Cape Breton village with the wide world of the mainland. With its grand promises of jobs and...
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Causeway
Causeway is L inden MacIntyre’s evocative memoir of his Cape Breton childhood. At once a vibrant coming-of-age story, a portrait of a vanishing way of life and a reflection on fathers and sons, the narrative revolves around the construction of the Canso Causeway that would link the small Cape...
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