
Waiting On Wednesday
This week's pre-publication "can't-wait-to-read" selection is:
A Good Man (hardcover) 448 pages
Author: Guy Vanderhaeghe
Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Press
Rel.Date: 1-3-12
Wesley Case is a former soldier and son of a Canadian lumber Baron who sets out into the untamed borderlands between Canada and the U. S. to escape a dark secret from his past. He settles in Montana where he hopes to buy a cattle ranch,and where he begins to work a liason between the American and Canadian militaries in an effort to contain the Native American unresolved anger in the wake of the Civil War. He falls in love with the beautiful and recently widowed Ada Tarr. The romance inflames the jealousy of Ada's quiet and deeply disturbed admirer, Michael Dunne.