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Emily's Quest by Lucy Maud Montgomery, #65
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On the one hand, this is a chronicle (more on that below) about Abe Spalding who is a workaholic and has a tough time relating to anyone outside his solitary inner life which is subsumed in mindless ambition. On the other, it is the story of a Canadian settlement meeting the modern era while still locked in its primitive past--within a single person's adult lifetime. As Rudy Wiebe points out this is less a novel than it is a chronicle--a collection of related stories--that seems so especially a
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