The Last Romantic Mary Bernard

George Frederick Clarke (1883-1974) was a man of the St. John River Valley and a true romantic. From the age of 8 he was determined to become a writer, and a writer he became, against great odds. Clarke is best known for his classic salmon fishing memoirs and for his book on archaeology and First Nation People. But he also published novels, histories, poetry, childrens books, and dozens of short stories. He created a body of work full of adventure and romance. But the story of his life is as extraordinary as anything he wrote, full of contradictions: a romantic idealist who was intensely practical, a man devoted to family who nearly left his wife and daughters for his lover and their sona love affair that shocked and polarised his hometown of Woodstock, New Brunswick. He rose above the scandal by sheer force of character. By the 1960s he was one of the best-known men in New Brunswick, the great-hearted old man whom the poet Alden Nowlan knew and loved. He was... Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге The Last Romantic (Mary Bernard)