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Praise for Henderson's Spear:
"Richly imagined and crisply written... Romantic but unsentimental, this is a beautifully constructed story with fascinating characters and authentic details that play off one another in surprising and often shocking ways. The thematic homage to Melville is punctuated with other literary allusions that enrich and deepen an already thoroughly engrossing tale of the South Pacific." — Publisher's Weekly
“...a fast-paced tale of travel, adventure, family (and royal) secrets, infused with a moral vision reminiscent of Joseph Conrad.” — Judy Stoffman, Toronto Star September 30, 2001
"Wright has fashioned a truly global novel, fired by anger at the exploitation of the earth by colonialism and the economic forces that have succeeded it, and by a love for the creatures and civilizations that have vanished in the name of so-called progress." — John Bemrose Maclean's October 8, 2001
“Don’t be put deterred by the fact that Henderson’s Spear is hailed as postfeminist and postmodern. It is also a page-turning adventure tale that grabs the Victorian notion of an Imperial boy’s adventure story and turns it on its masculine axle.” — Sandra Martin, The Globe and Mail, October 29, 2001.
“Ronald Wright has written a Gauguin canvas and a volcanic tremor of a novel.” — Len Gasparini, Toronto Star
“Charming and delightful.... Perhaps the greatest achievement of this novel is the way it reads as something intimate notwithstanding the grandeur of its scope.” — Mary Ambrose, National Post
“Henderson’s Spear is an intriguing, warm-toned, well-written and spirited novel, a credit to its tradition.” — John Spurling, Times Literary Supplement
“Powerful evocation of the Pacific world....[Victorian adventure] has succesfully been given a modern make-over by a number of recent novelists — William Boyd in Brazzaville Beach, for example — and now by Wright.” — Adam Lively, Sunday Times UK
“A taut fiction of tremendous beauty.” — Susan Grimbly, Ottawa Citizen
“Sometimes a novel hooks you in its opening pages and doesn’t let go. Henderson’s Spear is that kind of tale ... beautifully executed from start to finish.” — Douglas Johnston, Winnipeg Free Press
Praise for A Scientific Romance
"A Scientific Romance should...share with Fugitive Pieces the very upper rung of [20th-century Canadian literature]." — from Bill Richardson's foreword to Great Canadian Books of the Century
"An elegant novel...gripping and lyrical; you struggle to slow down but find yourself rushing forward." — The New Yorker
"A treasure...delightfully witty and suspenseful." — Alberto Manguel, The Globe and Mail
"Powerful...cunningly fashioned.... A profound meditation on the nature of time." — The New York Times Book Review
"Deeply seductive and brilliantly sustained." — The Observer
"A classic." — The Guardian
"A work of great beauty built on nightmare." — Boston Book Review
L'autore:
Ronald Wright is the internationally acclaimed author of A Scientific Romance, winner of the Britain's David Higham Prize for Fiction. His other major bestsellers include Time Among the Maya and Stolen Continents, and an acclaimed collection of travel pieces, Home and Away. He lives in Port Hope, Ontario.
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