Author: Jane Urquhart. Published by David R. Godine, New Hampshire, USA, 1990, First Softcover Printing, Printed in USA. Like New Condition SOFTCOVER Book.
THE WHIRLPOOL, The Debut Novel By Jane Urquhart, is written in luminous prose, and is a haunting tale set in Niagara Falls, Ontario, in the summer of 1889. The Whirlpool received Le prix du meilleur livre étranger (Best Foreign Book Award) in France and marked the brilliant debut of a major voice in Canadian fiction.
This is the season of reckless river stunts, a time when the undertaker’s widow is busy with funerals, her days shadowed by her young son’s curious silence. Across the street in Kick’s Hotel, where Fleda and her husband, David McDougal, have temporary rooms, Fleda dreams of the place above the whirlpool where she first encountered the poet, a man who enters her life and, unwittingly, changes everything. As the summer progresses, the lives of these characters become entangled, and darker, as more sinister currents gain momentum.
