The Watch That Ends the Night (Masterplots II: British and Commonwealth Fiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Hugh MacLennan
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Social morality
- Time of Work: From about 1910 to 1951
- Setting: Montreal, the Laurentians, northeastern New Brunswick, Spain, Leningrad, Germany, and China
- Principal Characters: George Stewart, Jerome Martell, Catherine Martell, Sally Martell, Nora Blackwell, Arthur Lazenby, Giles and Josephine Martell, Jack Christopher, Hastings Stewart, Dr. Rodgers
- Genres: Long fiction, Psychological fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Politics, Socialism, Depression, economic, Surgery or surgeons, War, Canada or Canadians, Catholics or Catholic Church, Germany or German people, China or Chinese people, Soviet Union or Soviets, Spain or Spanish people, Heart attack or disease, Ocean
- Locales: Spain, Canada, Germany, China, Leningrad, Russia
The Novel
When George Stewart, a political analyst for CBC radio, returns a call to a seedy Montreal hotel in the winter of 1950, he hears the voice of Jerome Martell, a gifted doctor and left-wing political activist who disappeared while serving with the Loyalists during the Spanish Civil War. Jerome was married to Catherine, who, assuming him dead, is now George’s wife. The reappearance of Jerome jogs George’s memory and triggers a series of flashbacks which explore his own past and the intense personalities of Jerome and Catherine Martell and the political milieu of...
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