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04358aam a2200493 i 4500 001 DDE1E568AE9011EDA0B1416654ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20230217010059 008 210218t20212021onc 000 f eng 020 $a 0735281637 020 $a 9780735281639 035 $a (OCoLC)1237768087 040 $a NLC $b eng $e rda $c NLC $d NLC $d YDX $d TOH $d OCLCO $d VP@ $d CNCAR $d OCLCF $d YDX $d UAB $d OCLCO $d UBC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a lac 043 $a f-sa--- $a f-sa--- 050 4 $a PR9199.3.J599 $b M97 2021 055 0 $a PS8569.O3918 $b M97 2021 082 0 $a C813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Johnston, Wayne, $e author. 245 14 $a The mystery of right and wrong / $c Wayne Johnston. 264 1 $a Toronto : $b Alfred A. Knopf Canada, $c 2021. 300 $a 552 pages ; $c 24 cm 530 $a Issued also in electronic format. 520 $a "A masterwork from one of the country's most critically acclaimed and beloved writers that is both compulsively readable and heartstopping in the brutal truth it reveals. Unfolding them in a novel that grapples with sexual abuse, male violence and madness, Wayne Johnston unveils brutal family secrets he's kept for more than 30 years. Wade Jackson, a young man from a Newfoundland outport, wants to be a writer but isn't one yet. In the university library in St. John's, where he goes every day to absorb the great books of the world, he encounters the fascinating, South African-born Rachel van Hout, and soon they are lovers. Rachel is the youngest of four van Hout daughters. Her Dutch-born father, Hans, lived in Amsterdam during WWII, and says he was in the Dutch resistance. After the war, he emigrated to South Africa, where he met his wife, Myra, had his daughters and worked as an accounting professor at the University of Cape Town. Something happened, though, that caused him to uproot his family and move them all, unhappily, to Newfoundland. Wade soon discovers that the beautiful van Hout daughters are each in their own way a wounded soul. The oldest, Gloria, is a hypersexual exhibitionist who, by the age of twenty-eight, has been married five times. Carmen is addicted to every drug her Afrikaner drug-pusher husband Fritz can lay his hands on. Bethany, aka Deathany, the most sardonic and self-deprecating of the sisters, is fighting a losing battle with anorexia. And then there is Rachel, who reads The Diary of Anne Frank obsessively, and diarizes her days in a secret language of her own invention, writing to the point of breakdown and beyond. As the truth works its way inevitably to the surface, Wade learns that nothing in the world of the van Houts is what it seems, and that Rachel's obsession with Anne Frank has deeper and more disturbing roots than he could ever have imagined. The novel is a tour-de-force that pulls the reader toward a conclusion both inevitable and impossible to foresee. Wayne takes beautiful risks here, bringing the abuser, Hans, to life largely through the verses of the ballad Hans composes to indoctrinate his little girls; grappling with the central mystery of his own and Rose's lives, Wayne has transfigured the "material," grappling with fate, free will, male violence, and madness."-- $c Provided by publisher. 648 7 $a 2000-2099 $2 fast 650 0 $a Canadian fiction $y 21st century. 650 0 $a Dysfunctional families $v Fiction. 650 7 $a Canadian fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00845101 650 7 $a Dysfunctional families. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01728523 651 0 $a Newfoundland and Labrador $v Fiction. 651 0 $a South Africa $v Fiction. 651 7 $a Newfoundland and Labrador. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01296050 651 7 $a South Africa. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204616 655 7 $a Autobiographical fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01986487 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726589 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01726481 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Psychological fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Autobiographical fiction. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i Online version: $a Johnston, Wayne. $t Mystery of right and wrong. $d Toronto : Knopf Canada, 2021 $z 9780735281646 $z 9780735281646 $w (OCoLC)1237768008 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117025359.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=DDE1E568AE9011EDA0B1416654ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search