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<p><b>Winner, Margaret Laurence Award for Fiction<br>Shortlisted, McNally Robinson Book of the Year and Relit Award (Novel)</b></p><p>Award-winning author Margaret Sweatman has proven herself a virtuoso writer of historical fiction. Yet nothing she has written can prepare you for <i>Mr. Jones</i>.</p> <p>Emmett Jones is adrift. Having firebombed civilians as a pilot during World War II, Emmett searches for something to cling to when life loses focus. Post-war, he becomes compulsively drawn to John Norfield, a former POW who has found his focus in communism.</p> <p>Set in a time of rampant paranoia, <i>Mr. Jones</i> peels back the veneer of Canadian politics to reveal a nation willing to sacrifice its own. It is a fearful time, a time of "peace" at the onset of the nuclear age.</p> <p>Emmett's existence comes under scrutiny. His relationship with Norfield makes him a target of security forces. His marriage, his job, even his child are the target of investigation. And as the nuclear arms race heats up, Mr. Jones sets himself on a path that will risk the lives of everyone he holds dear.</p> <p>Evoking the classic works of le Carré and Greene, Sweatman's novel is a shattering exploration of a past where world governments threaten annihilation while training housewives in the proper techniques for sweeping up radioactive dust.</p>
Margaret Sweatman is a novelist, playwright, poet, and performer. Her work has won the Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize, the Sunburst Award for Canadian Literature of the Fantastic, the Margaret Laurence Book Award, the Carol Shields Winnipeg Award, and the McNally Robinson Book of the Year Award. Night Birds is her seventh novel. She lives in Winnipeg.
- ISBN-13
- 9780864929143
- Publisher
- Goose Lane Editions
- Imprint
- Goose Lane Editions
- Publication date
- 16 September 2014
- Format
- Hardback
- Pages
- 484
- Dimensions
- 203 x 127 mm
- Language
- English
