Each Man's Son

Hugh MacLennan
McGill-Queen's University Press
9780773524880
0-7735-2488-6

Dan Ainslie, a brilliant doctor working with the miners of his native Cape Breton Island, is forty-two and deeply in love with his wife. Longing for the son he can never have, he comes to love the young.

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Alan MacNeil, whose father deserted him and his mother several years before. Alan's father's return brings tragedy to those around him.