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When an unknown woman steps off a beached Peruvian freighter and walks into the Vancouver Island town of Port Annie, nothing can ever be quite the same. Stalwart citizens, tired of their milltown routine, grasp at a fresh subject for gossip. Others are suddenly prepared to make momentous decisions. But eccentric old Joseph Bourne, who knows that the endless rain is going to bring a landslide down on the town, is certain that the mysterious woman has come looking for him.
Jack Hodgins' comic masterpiece is filled with social satire, and it is also filled with love, which permits this ordinary town to recollect the past with affection, and to begin its history again.
First published in 1979, The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne won the Governor General's Award for Fiction.
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Edward Phung
reviewed The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne on December 21, 2017
The Resurrection of Joseph Bourne
Winner of the GG in 1979 this story recounts how Joseph Bourne comes back from the dead a couple of times in the town of Port Annie on the West Coast of Vancouver Island, and in doing so is the salvation of a whole number of people.
He is saved by the most beautiful pair of legs that come off a freighter and walk the main street looking for him'apparently on a mission from his wife who lives in the tropics and is too ill to travel. She is dark and beautiful just as is the woman who comes to be his salvation.
The town is not faring well, in spite of the best efforts of the mayor to attract tourists with the worlds largest cactus sitting on a barge in the harbor which dies because of too much rain and various other schemes to attract business.
The ending is weak. Bourne leaves the community and the mountain sends the town into the ocean. Could read lots into it but I tried and it didn't happen for me.
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