Douglas Glover's acclaimed novel "The Life and Times of Captain
N." is now available in a GLE Library edition. Originally published
by McClelland & Stewart, the novel was acclaimed by the most
respected critics in Canada and the US, and compelled "The Toronto
Star"'s Philip Marchand to call Glover "one of the most important
Canadian writers of his generation."
Set on the Niagara frontier in the final days of the American
Revolution, "The Life and Times of Captain N." sees the
revolutionary new world order from the standpoint of the losers.
Hendrick Nellis, a Tory guerrilla, has also been a redeemer of
whites abducted by Indians. His son Oskar finds himself sometimes
allied with the Indians, sometimes at war with them. Hendrick
kidnaps Oskar for King George's army, and Oskar, haunted by dreams
and by books, is the teller of the tale. The book he intends to
write is sketched out in his letters to George Washington and in
the signs tattooed on his skin as mementos of his personal Indian
wars.
"The Life and Times of Captain N." trespasses into the
no-man's-land where the delirium of combat drives races, genders,
languages, and ideas into a primeval frenzy. Master of the psyche's
primitive depths, Douglas Glover draws the reader into a violent
and erotic emotional whirlpool. Some of the incidents in "The Life
and Times of Captain N." are based on the lives of the real
Hendrick Nellis and his family, and, says Glover, "I have no doubt
their descendents and relatives on both sides of the border will
find much to complain of."
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