The Inverted Pyramid - Brossura

Sinclair, Bertrand W.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1553801288 ISBN 13: 9781553801283

Casa editrice: Ronsdale Pr, 2011

Riassunto

Bertrand W. Sinclair's The Inverted Pyramid, a best-seller when it was first published in 1924, appears now for the first time in a new edition. Writing in the period from 1908 onwards, Sinclair published over fifteen novels, some of which sold in the hundreds of thousands. In The Inverted Pyramid, which critics often cite as his most ambitious novel, he explores Canada's drift during WWI from a world of production to one based on finance, with all the attendant problems we are still enduring today. The novel offers a colourful account of British Columbia during this time through the history of two brothers -- Rod and Grove Norquay -- who belong to an old BC family. Rod hopes to build on the family's past success in forestry, but Grove, the older brother, takes the family's assets and invests them in finance -- with disastrous consequences. Even as the world declines into a post-war depression, Rod is forced to liquidate much of his family's timber holdings, but he remains hopeful that he and family, working with their own hands, will be able to make a good life for themselves -- even as the rest of the world totters into the horrors of modernity.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Ronsdale Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2011
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1553801288
• ISBN 13: 9781553801283
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 288
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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