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Orphaned by a zeppelin crash at age nine, DeFoe Russet was raised in a Halifax, Nova Scotia, hotel by his magnetic uncle Edward. Now thirty, DeFoe works with Edward as a guard in Halifax's three-room Glace Museum. He and his uncle disturb the silence of the museum with heated conversations that prove them to be "opposites at life." Away from the museum, DeFoe courts the affection of Imogen Linny, the young caretaker of the small Jewish cemetery. Everything changes when Imogen, inspired by the arrival of a painting, Jewess on a Street in Amsterdam, abandons Halifax for the ennobled life she imagines for the painting's subject-even amid the growing perilousness of being a Jew in Amsterdam. Set against the impending events of World War II, The Museum Guard, the second book of his Canadian trilogy, explores the mysteries of identity and self-determination, and the desire to step out of the ordinary into an alluring and dangerous sphere of action.
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- PublisherKnopf Canada
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0676971725
- ISBN 13 9780676971729
- BindingHardcover
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- Number of pages310
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Book Description hardcover. Condition: Very Good in Dustjacket. 1st edition. Toronto. 1998. Knopf of Canada. 1st Canadian Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 0676971725. The Title Page States Alfred A. Knopf Canada, But Both Binding & Dustjacket Read Farrar Straus Giroux. 310 pages. hardcover. Jacket illustration by Ruth Marten. keywords: Literature America . FROM THE PUBLISHER - Halifax, Nova Scotia, 1938. Orphaned at age nine by a zeppelin crash, DeFoe Russet grew up in a hotel under the care of his magnetic uncle Edward. Now 30, DeFoe works with Edward as a guard in Halifax's three-room Glace Museum. By day, he and his uncle break the silence of the museum with heated conversations that show them to be opposites at life.' By night, DeFoe spends his time trying to keep the affection of Imogen Linny, the young caretaker of the small Jewish cemetery. Their relationship is a most provocative example of unrequited love. When the Dutch painting Jewess on a Street in Amsterdam' arrives at the museum, Imogen becomes obsessed and abandons her life in favor of the ennobled one she imagines for its subject-even though being a Jew in Amsterdam is becoming more and more perilous as the clouds of World War II begin to gather. As the true story of the Jewess emerges, Imogen leaves DeFoe and enters the orbit of Edward and his own fascination with the horrific news being broadcast from Europe. Drawing together the mysteries of identity and self-determination and the ominous aura of the late 1930s, THE MUSEUM GUARD is an examination of the desire to step out of the everyday and into action-and of that desire's often tragic consequences. inventory #20211. Seller Inventory # z20211
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