Burden of Desire

By
Robert MacNeil

Nan A. Talese, Doubleday
New York
March 1992

Dust jacket adds: A Novel
First published in Canada by Doubleday Canada Limited. Toronto, Ontario.
Dust jacket contains a circular gilt label with brown-stamped "Autographed Copy"
Signed by the author, Robert MacNeil, on the title page.
[10], 466, [3] p.; 24 cm. (9.5 inches). Black cloth spine, with gilt-stamped spine title, dark blue paper over boards. Glossy, color illustrated dust jacket, artwork on the front section, detail of a painting by Arthur Lismer, Halifax Harbour, Time of War (c. 1916), oil on canvas, Dalhousie Art Gallery Permanent Collection. Black and white map on endpapers. Includes A Note on Fact and Fiction, and About the Author
First American Edition

"The setting is Halifax, Nova Scotia, whose inhabitants are introduced first-hand to the horror of the war when a freighter ship carrying TNT explodes in the harbor, leveling an entire district. In the wake of this disaster, Peter Wentworth, a young minister who typefies the cautiousness and propriety of upper-class Halifax, finds, misplaced amid clothes donated by the blast, a diary containing the sexually frank confessions of a young woman. Peter is shocked, intrigued, and finally obsessed by what he has read. In an attempt to identify the woman and return the diary, Peter shows it to a friend from childhood, Stewart MacPherson, a psychologist acquainted with the revolutionary theories of Freud. Stewart, too, falls under the woman's spell" [from the dust jacket].

ISBN: 0385420196

Book is in Fine/As New Condition: pages bright, clean, tight, and unmarked (other than author's signature on the title page).
Dust Jacket is in Near Fine Condition: the autographed copy label rubbed.

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