In the Shadow of the Wind (Masterplots II: Women’s Literature Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Anne Hebert
- First Published: 1982
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Tragedy
- Time of Work: The summer and autumn of 1936 and the autumn of 1982
- Setting: Griffin Creek, a fictional place between the city of Québec and the Atlantic Ocean
- Principal Characters: Nicholas Jones, Irene Jones, Olivia Atkins, Nora Atkins, Stevens Brown, Felicity Jones, Percival Brown, Pam, John Erwin McKenna
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Family or family life
- Locales: Quebec, Canada
Form and Content
In an atmosphere marked by the mysterious influence of the sea, Anne Hébert uses multiple narrators to reveal different facets of the central events and characters of In the Shadow of the Wind. The plot revolves around the sexual maturation of two young girls and three violent deaths precipitated by the erotic tension that they innocently produce. As the novel opens in 1982, Nicholas Jones laments the dwindling of Griffin Creek in a broken echo of his former voice. As pastor of an Anglican congregation in French Catholic Québec, he speaks for God to...
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