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"Sick Heart River" is a powerful and compelling novel originally published in 1941. It is John Buchan's last novel which was completed days before his death in 1940. It follows a dying protagonist, Edward Leithen, who confronts the question of the meaning of life while in the Canadian wilderness.
2 de jan. de 2014 · Synopsis. Leithen had been too busy all day to concern himself with the thoughts which hung heavily at the back of his mind. In the morning he had visited his bankers to look into his money affairs. These were satisfactory enough: for years he had been earning a large income and spending little of it; his investments were mostly in trustee ...
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Martha Korok Prof. Richard Harris English 114, Section 09 24 th Oct 2021 The Sick Heart River The hero is a novel authored by John Buchan as he reflects his ow ’s quest measures in Sick Heart River n struggles with illness.
Sir Edward Leithen - perhaps the autobiographical of Buchan's characters - is dying of tuberculosis and has been given a year to live. After this prognosis, Leithen undertakes a profoundly heroic quest from London to the Canadian Northwest, tracking down a missing man who is literally 'sick at heart'.
Sick Heart River fits this bill well as it was finished only days before his death and published posthumously. The pace of the book is slow and, unlike its predecessors, it is not a thriller. The protoganist Sir Edward Leithen, who crops up in other Buchan novels, is diagnosed with TB and given less than a year to live - indeed he dies towards the end of the novel.
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