The Life and Times of Captain N

Hendrick Nellis is a Tory guerrilla at the Niagara frontier at the end of the American Revolution; he is also a redeemer of whites abducted by Indians. He kidnaps his own son, Oskar, for King George's army, and it is Oskar, haunted by dreams, who tells this ambivalent tale of war and redemption.
The violent, erotic, and partly true story of The Life and Times of Captain N. trespasses into the psychic no-man's-land where the delirium of combat drives human nature into a primal frenzy.

About the author

Douglas Glover was recipient of the 2006 Writers' Trust of Canada Timothy Findley Award for his body of work. His bestselling novel Elle won the Governor-General's Award and was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. A Guide to Animal Behaviour was a finalist for the 1991 Governor-General's Award, and 16 Categories of Desire was shortlisted for the 2000 Rogers Writers Trust Fiction Award.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Glover
• Publisher: Goose Lane Editions
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.04.2001
• EAN: 9780864922977
• ISBN: 978-0-86492-297-7
• No. of pages: 185
• Dimensions: 141 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Weight: 222 g
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature