The Channel Shore

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James Lorimer & Company, Jan 16, 2018 - Fiction - 398 pages

Selected for Nova Scotia's 150 Books of Influence!

Charles Bruce's classic novel tells the story of the people of 'the shore', a small fictional rural community along the Eastern Shore of Nova Scotia which closely resembles Bruce's childhood home on Chedabucto Bay. He weaves a moving and well-grounded account of rural life &;— the opportunities, relationships and conflicts in the community in the aftermath of the First World War.

 

Contents

19191945
1
Part One
7
Chapter 1
8
Chapter 2
23
Chapter 3
34
Chapter 4
47
Chapter 5
56
Chapter 6
64
Chapter 21
182
Chapter 22
195
Chapter 23
213
Chapter 24
223
Chapter 25
231
Chapter 26
253
Chapter 27
263
1946
270

Chapter 7
67
Chapter 8
77
Chapter 9
84
Chapter 10
93
Chapter 11
101
Chapter 12
110
Chapter 13
116
Chapter 14
120
Chapter 15
125
Chapter 16
130
Chapter 17
139
Chapter 18
149
Chapter 19
154
Chapter 20
161
Chapter 21
167
Chapter 22
171
1945
175
Part Two
181
Part Three
275
Chapter 31
276
Chapter 32
286
Chapter 33
292
Chapter 34
299
Chapter 35
306
Chapter 36
319
Chapter 37
326
Chapter 38
329
Chapter 39
335
Chapter 310
347
Chapter 311
358
Chapter 312
364
Chapter 313
368
Chapter 314
372
Chapter 315
390
1946
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About the author (2018)

CHARLES BRUCE was born and raised in Port Shoreham, Nova Scotia. After graduating from Mount Allison University he worked as a journalist, first for the Halifax Chronicle Herald. After working as a war correspondent in Europe during the Second World war, he moved to Toronto where he was the general manager of the Canadian Press news agency. His six volumes of poetry won him the 1951 Governor-General's award for Poetry. The Channel Shore is Bruce's only novel.

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