Burning the Night

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Publication Year:
2021

ISBN-13: 9781774390122

<p><b>Includes Author-Curated Discussion Questions!</b><br/><br/>From small-town Alberta, Curtis comes to Edmonton to obtain a teaching degree. There he forms a close friendship with his elderly, blind Aunt Harriet, considered a family pariah due to her eccentric enthusiasm for a lost world of artists and musicians.</p><p>When Curtis begins reading aloud to Harriet the diary her intended husband Phillip kept before his death during World War One, an obsessed Curtis examines parallels to his own life: his desire to become a skillful artist and to find fulfilling love.</p><p>Timeless and essential, award-winning author Glen Huser’s <i>Burning the Night</i> spans across generations and distance, traversing from Vancouver to Halifax, as it bears down on the history of Canadian painting and Curtis’s awakening as a gay man.</p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;<p><b>Includes&#10;Author-Curated Discussion Questions!</b><br><br>From&#10;small-town Alberta, Curtis comes to Edmonton to obtain a teaching degree. There&#10;he forms a close friendship with his elderly, blind Aunt Harriet, considered a&#10;family pariah due to her eccentric enthusiasm for a lost world of artists and&#10;musicians.</p><p>When Curtis begins reading aloud to Harriet the&#10;diary her intended husband Phillip kept before his death during World War One,&#10;an obsessed Curtis examines parallels to his own life: his desire to become a&#10;skillful artist and to find fulfilling love.</p><p>Timeless and&#10;essential, award-winning author Glen Huser&#8217;s <i>Burning the Night</i>&#10;spans across generations and distance, traversing from Vancouver to&#10;Halifax, as it bears down on the history of Canadian painting and Curtis&#8217;s&#10;awakening as a gay man.</p>&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;&#10;