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What is left the daughter

Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other, jump off two different bridges--the result of their separate involvements with the same compelling neighbor, a Halifax switchboard operator and aspiring actress. The suicides cause Wyatt to move to small-town Middle Economy to live with his uncle, aunt, and cousin Tilda. Wyatt's account of the astonishing--not least to him--events leading up to his fathering of a beloved daughter spills out twenty-one years later. It's a confession that speaks profoundly of the mysteries of human character in wartime and is directed, with both despair and hope, to an audience of one.

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  • "Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other, jump off two different bridges."
  • "Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other, jump off two different bridges--the result of their separate involvements with the same compelling neighbor, a Halifax switchboard operator and aspiring actress. The suicides cause Wyatt to move to small-town Middle Economy to live with his uncle, aunt, and cousin Tilda. Wyatt's account of the astonishing--not least to him--events leading up to his fathering of a beloved daughter spills out twenty-one years later. It's a confession that speaks profoundly of the mysteries of human character in wartime and is directed, with both despair and hope, to an audience of one."@en
  • "Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is suddenly orphaned when his parents, within hours of each other, jump off two different bridges--the result of their separate involvements with the same compelling neighbor, a Halifax switchboard operator and aspiring actress. The suicides cause Wyatt to move to small-town Middle Economy to live with his uncle, aunt, and cousin Tilda. Wyatt's account of the astonishing--not least to him--events leading up to his fathering of a beloved daughter spills out twenty-one years later. It's a confession that speaks profoundly of the mysteries of human character in wartime and is directed, with both despair and hope, to an audience of one."
  • "Seventeen-year-old Wyatt Hillyer is orphaned when his parents jump off two different bridges within hours of each other -- the result of their separate involvements with the same neighbor, a Halifax switchboard operator and aspiring actress. Wyatt is forced to move to a small town to live with his uncle, aunt, and ravishing cousin Tilda. A chain of life-altering passions and the wartime perfidy at its core is set in motion by the arrival of the German student Hans Mohring. Actual historical incidents lend intense narrative power to Norman's uncannily layered story."
  • "Halifax, Kanada: Nachdem sich die Eltern des 17-jährigen Wyatt gleichzeitig das Leben nahmen, zieht Wyatt zu seinem Onkel und seiner Tante und verliebt sich unsterblich in deren Adoptivtochter Tilda. Doch Tilda hat nur Augen für den jungen Deutschen Hans Mohring, dem im kanadischen Küstenort mit Misstrauen begegnet wird - schliesslich tobt der Zweite Weltkrieg. Als eines Tages Wyatts Tante ums Leben kommt, weil ein deutsches U-Boot die Fähre versenkt hat, auf der sie sich befand, rächt sich Wyatts Onkel an dem einzigen Deutschen, der in Reichweite ist - an Hans Mohring. Er erschlägt ihn mit einer Schlittenkufe. Wyatt hilft ihm widerwillig, den Toten zu beseitigen, und muss dafür ins Gefängnis. Nach seiner Rückkehr verbringt er eine gemeinsame Nacht mit Tilda und wird Vater einer Tochter, die er allerdings nie richtig kennenlernen darf, bis eines Tages in sein Leben eine entscheidende Wendung eintritt ... Howard Norman, 1949 in Grand Rapids im US-Bundesstaat Michigan geboren, lebt mit seiner Familie in Washington, D.C. und Vermont. Seine Bücher wurden in zwölf Sprachen übersetzt. Er wurde zwei Mal für den National Book Award nominiert und erhielt den Lannan Award. Der Autor unterrichtet heute an der Universität von Maryland."

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  • "Electronic books"
  • "Historical fiction"@en
  • "Historical fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Online-Publikation"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"

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  • "What is left the daughter"@en
  • "What is left the daughter"
  • "Der Schlittenmacher Roman"

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