Bøger af Jack Hodgins

Fire års rædsler i skyttegravene under Første Verdenskrig blev af den canadiske regering belønnet med et stykke jord, som de hjemvendte soldater kunne opdyrke.Blot var jorden mere klippe end jord og mere skov end klippe. For veteranerne i Portuguese Creek var det næsten som at komme fra asken i ilden. Træstubbe skulle dagligt sprænges væk med fare for liv og lemmer, og oppe i højderne brænder skoven lystigt og må hele tiden holdes i skak.Historien fortælles af ti nybyggere, først og fremmest Charlie MacIntosh, som ser sin far blive dræbt, og læreren Matthew Pearson, som har sine egne dæmoner fra krigen at slås med.Det er en fortælling om kampen mod naturen, om lidenskabelig kærlighed, rystende tragedier, ufatteligt mod og stor opofrelse, da ilden oppe i højderne finder vej ned til nybyggerlejren.

Set amidst the fleshpots, sound-stages and dining rooms of L.A., this engaging novel of lives and loves lost and found also gestures to the courage one needs in the face of the vulnerabilities of older age that all too soon beset.

A Globe and Mail Notable Book of the YearSonny Aalto, a restless middle-aged businessman, has spent his life running away from those closest to him. When his estranged, larger-than-life father, Timo, becomes too sick to care for himself, Sonny reluctantly returns to his childhood home of Vancouver Island, where he learns his father is not only dying but wants to die on his own terms - with Sonny's help. But before facing the gravity of what's ahead, the two embark on a journey to Australia, in search of a woman from their past, and over the course of the next few months their adventures will reveal difficult truths about fathers and sons, about families, about how we live and how we die - and about the good and bad things that distance can sometimes provide. Wise and irreverent, deeply moving, at times comic, and with vivid settings ranging from the frozen banks of Ottawa's Rideau Canal to the lushness of Vancouver Island, from the bustle of downtown Sydney to the sun-baked desolation of the Queensland outback, Distance is Jack Hodgins's most rewarding novel to date.