num_pages: 464
description: Then, Donal Keneally, an Irish giant who thought he could invent the world, led a band of faithful followers from rural Ireland to Vancouver Island in search of Eden. In the course of his search, he founded the Revelations Colony of Truth.Now, Maggie Kyle runs an extraordinary boarding house on the original site of the Colony, and she and her irrepressible boarders search out Keneally’s story as a key to their own roots and even the possibility of love.Originally published in 1977, The Invention of the World is Jack Hodgins’ first novel.
language: English
title: The Invention of the World
titlecomplete: The Invention of the World (The New Canadian Library)
genres: Fiction, 20th Century, Magical Realism, Canada, Canadian Literature
ratings_count: 136
publisher: New Canadian Library