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The day the falls stood still by cathy marie buchanan, karen. Born and bred in niagara falls, ontario, the setting of the day the falls stood still, buchanan grew up awash in the lore of william red hill, niagaras most famous riverman, as she explains in. Browse inside the day the falls stood still by cathy marie. The day the falls stood still by cathy marie buchanan cathy marie buchanans first novel has the wistful tone of a love letter, addressed to a place few people alive today ever knew. The day the falls stood still cathy marie buchanan paperback. The authors fascination with the lore and legends of the falls is complemented by her interest in the economic and industrial forces at work in the region at the dawn of the hydroelectric era. The story is set in canada near the niagara where its wonderful beauty and history is emanated from cathys descriptions.
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Steeped in the intriguing history of niagara falls, this is an epic love story as rich, spellbinding and majestic as the. A graduate of the humber school of writing, her fiction has appeared in many of canadas premier journals. When bess heath returns to her family home near the picturesque falls, it is to an unfamiliar scene the elegance of the life she once knew has vanished. It is a southern ontario gothic of the highest order.
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