About the Novel

   His father´s last words were scathing, "You dimwitted bastard." Four years later, scarred and missing a leg, James McKay returns from World War II to the needs of the family farm. Insistently he draws the reader into the tangled strands of his days and nights beset by the memory of a young man he killed and entranced by a woman who could not return his love.

About the Author

   Alexander M. Ross was raised on an Ontario farm, shaped by the Great Depression, and served in the Royal Canadian Artillery in World War II. Now Professor Emeritus, University of Guelph, his most recent publications include Slow March to a Regiment, A Year and a Day, and the jointly authored revision of The College on the Hill.