num_pages: 496
description: First time in the New Canadian LibraryNorthwest of Montreal through a valley always in sight of the low mountains of the Laurentian Shield the Ottawa River flows out of Protestant Ontario into Catholic Quebec. It comes down broad and ale-coloured and joins the Saint Lawrence the two streams embrace the pan of Montreal Island the Ottawa merges and loses itself and the main-stream moves northeastward a thousand miles to sea.With these words Hugh MacLennan begins his powerful saga of Athanase Tallard the son of an aristo-cratic French-Canadian tradition of Kathleen his beautiful Irish wife and of their son Paul who struggles to establish a balance in himself and in the country he calls home.First published in 1945 and set mostly in the time of the First World War Two Solitudes is a classic novel of individuals working out the latest stage in their embroiled history.
language: English
title: Two Solitudes
publisher: McClelland & Stewart