Word: maclennan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Watch That Ends the Night, MacLennan...
...Watch that Ends the Night, MacLennan...
...Watch That Ends the Night, MacLennan...
...MacLennan's narrative technique is brilliantly planned and assured; his insights into the motivations of his characters are clear and sometimes exciting. Always is evident the sure hand of a facile writer...
...major value of the book--to this Montrealer, at least-seems to lie in MacLennan's incredible sympathy for his characters and their city. If in advanced middle age they now appear flabby and indifferent as they quietly sip Dewar's Best-Ever-Bottled, they exist, at least. MacLennan has explained how hard knocks made them the way are. Hard knocks always arouse sympathy, particularly if the victims are people you know...