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- catalog abstract ""While the world was still reeling from the staggering losses incurred in the First World War, a little-known Canadian sculptor was raising a colossal monument in France, where more than sixty-six thousand of his countrymen had fought and died. The Vimy Ridge Memorial still stands as a stark reminder of the Canadians who gave their lives in France - and as a testament to the vision and single-minded obsession of its now-forgotten architect, Walter Allward." "It is against the backdrop of this incredible achievement that Jane Urquhart sets her new novel. At the center of the story is Klara Becker, the granddaughter of a master woodcarver, who spends her childhood in a German-settled community in southwestern Ontario in the years leading up to the Great War. It is a childhood punctuated by tremendous losses: her mother dies of cancer when she is a teenager; her older brother, in love with wandering, eventually leaves the family; and her brief but passionate love affair with Eamon O'Sullivan is cut short when he volunteers for action and never returns. But Klara's inherited gift for carving eventually reunites her with her brother and gives her purpose as she works on the memorial that will make her whole again"--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12057172.
- catalog coverage "Ontario Fiction.".
- catalog created "c2001.".
- catalog date "2001".
- catalog date "c2001.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2001.".
- catalog description ""While the world was still reeling from the staggering losses incurred in the First World War, a little-known Canadian sculptor was raising a colossal monument in France, where more than sixty-six thousand of his countrymen had fought and died. The Vimy Ridge Memorial still stands as a stark reminder of the Canadians who gave their lives in France - and as a testament to the vision and single-minded obsession of its now-forgotten architect, Walter Allward." "It is against the backdrop of this incredible achievement that Jane Urquhart sets her new novel. At the center of the story is Klara Becker, the granddaughter of a master woodcarver, who spends her childhood in a German-settled community in southwestern Ontario in the years leading up to the Great War. It is a childhood punctuated by tremendous losses: her mother dies of cancer when she is a teenager; her older brother, in love with wandering, eventually leaves the family; and her brief but passionate love affair with Eamon O'Sullivan is cut short when he volunteers for action and never returns. But Klara's inherited gift for carving eventually reunites her with her brother and gives her purpose as she works on the memorial that will make her whole again"--Jacket.".
- catalog extent "392 p. ;".
- catalog identifier "0771086873 (bound) :".
- catalog issued "2001".
- catalog issued "c2001.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Toronto : McClelland & Stewart,".
- catalog spatial "Canada".
- catalog spatial "Ontario Fiction.".
- catalog spatial "Ontario".
- catalog subject "Brothers and sisters Fiction.".
- catalog subject "C813/.54 21".
- catalog subject "Clergy Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Germans Canada Fiction.".
- catalog subject "PR9199.3.U7 S76 2001".
- catalog subject "Single women Fiction.".
- catalog subject "Stone carvers Fiction.".
- catalog subject "War memorials Fiction.".
- catalog subject "World War, 1914-1918 Ontario Fiction.".
- catalog title "The stone carvers / Jane Urquhart.".
- catalog type "Domestic fiction.".
- catalog type "Historical fiction. gsafd".
- catalog type "text".