Wacousta: Penguin Modern Classics Edition

by John Richardson

2021-01-20 00:03:50

NOW A PENGUIN MODERN CLASSIC: Twining revenge tragedy with gothic romance, John Richardson''s Wacousta is a story of betrayal, false identity, and wasted love during one of the most violent episodes in the history of the Canadian frontier. ... Read more
NOW A PENGUIN MODERN CLASSIC: Twining revenge tragedy with gothic romance, John Richardson''s Wacousta is a story of betrayal, false identity, and wasted love during one of the most violent episodes in the history of the Canadian frontier.


     On the northwest frontier in 1763, a mysterious man named Wacousta lies at the heart of a violent attack on the British garrison Fort Detroit. Consumed by a thirst for vengeance that borders on madness, this monstrous figure assists Pontiac''s Indian alliance to satisfy a deeply personal vendetta--one whose roots stretch back across decades and continents. Thrilling and suspenseful, Wacousta creates a world of deception and terror in which motive is ambiguous and the boundary between order and anarchy unclear. Less

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ISBN9780735236011
Sir John Patrick Richardson, KBE, FBA (6 Feb 1924 – 12 March 2019) was a British art historian and biographer ofPablo Picasso. In 1952, he moved to Provence, where he became friends with Picasso, Fe...

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