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  • The Watch That Ends the Night

  • By: Hugh MacLennan
  • Narrated by: Julian Casey
  • Length: 13 hrs and 5 mins
  • 5.0 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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The Watch That Ends the Night

By: Hugh MacLennan
Narrated by: Julian Casey
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Publisher's summary

George and Catherine Stewart share not only the burden of Catherine's heart disease, which could cause her death at any time, but the memory of Jerome Martell, her first husband and George's closest friend. Martel, a brilliant doctor passionately concerned with social justice, is presumed to have died in a Nazi prison camp. His sudden return to Montreal precipitates the central crisis of the novel. Hugh MacLennan takes the lister into the lives of his three characters and back into the world of Montreal in the thirties, when politics could send an idealist across the world to Spain, France, Auschwitz, Russia, and China before his return home.

©2009 Hugh MacLennan (P)2022 McGill-Queen’s University Press
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Critic reviews

“In his fifth book, MacLennan has gained a new mastery over the two strongest elements in his work: the storyteller and the self-explorer are one. The effect is virtually to double his stature. The Canadian novel takes a great stride forward.” — Robertson Davies, Saturday Night

The Watch That Ends the Night is a novel of affirmation ... The vanity of human wishes, death itself, are part of the mystery to be loved ... I would not trade MacLennan for a legion of beatniks or a whole flotilla-full of angry young men.” — Queen's Quarterly

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