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ANVIL
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Author:
Roger W. Harrington
Binding: Paperback
(pp: 318) ISBN: 978-81-8253-111-6 Availability: In Stock
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2008 Condition: New
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"Buy
a bible for Jesus, brother! Buy a Bible for Jesus!
I was a miner once. Lived in sin and blasphemy.
The tongue of the devil gave me speech and the
flesh of his harlots warmed my hands. But He came
to me. Cleansed me of filth and shame!
"Buy a
Bible for Jesus! Years of sin and I paid the
price. A wife so lovely - hair of gold! And the
children - angels both; little angels. Gone!
Driven away by the blast of liquor on a father's
breath! "Buy
a Bible for Jesus, brother! I worked the stopes, I
dug for the cursed muck, God help me! The greed
for gold was in my veins! Listen, brother. He'll
take you in. He'll save you with his word. Don't
let Bill Barleycorn fool you like he fooled me! He's
in league with the Devil! They walk hand in hand
and they laugh together. "Don't
let a river of booze wash you into the flames of
Hell! Don't let soft bodies draw you into the
everlasting pit! "Buy
a Bible, brother! Buy a Bible for Jesus!"
Roger W. Harrington
Born
in
England
. Former:
"Rock and Roll" star; gold miner; advisor to
the Thai government on ESL teaching; Frontier
College teacher; Honours Society of S.G.W.U.
President and ombudsman in the 'Computer Riot'
of the late sixties; Junior fellow of Massey
College; Russian interpreter for CAR; High school
teacher in English for thirty years; Deputy Mayor
and Reeve of the Town of Forest; first
vice-president of the Forest Legion.
Four languages spoken.
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Anvil
Reviewed
by Santosh Kumar, Chief Editor, Cyberwit.net
Anvil
by Roger W. Harrington is an immortal saga of
Canadian miners of the north. Harrington
aptly says that coal mining isn't the best of
callings. "Everything in mine is dust and
water". Life is not a bed of roses for mine
workers:
"Shift
by shift, the miner works upward until the stope
is completely drilled. Then the ore is drawn off,
via the chute, into ore cars, and the timbermen go
in to fit timbers to keep the walls apart . a
stope-miner drills thirty six-foot holes in a
shift, and then fills the wholes with dynamite and
blasts."
The
above illustration is a testimony to the fact that
Harrington is successful in getting to the root of
the
hardworking miners, then to represent it through
art. Much of Harrington's interest lies in
revealing the character of John Vance who has
decided to open a school for teaching English to
the miners. Father Dubois feels that Vance might
not survive in the camp community. The immigrant
workers 'with their broken dreams' drift
northward from the southern cities. The grandeur
and titanic force is inherent in Vance engaged in
the greatest undertaking of his life-teaching the
miners. Harrington with the freedom and
imagination of a great artist focuses his novel in
such a way that the whole world of the immigrant
workers or 'torn souls' is vividly presented.
Harrington
works in his novel Anvil with the clay of human action. The whole novel is about the
great moment in John Vance's life as he comes
first time to North where his father died fourteen
years ago in the mines. It is a hard task for
Vance to teach English to the miners. He says,
"I plough deeper into the mire, by trying to
explain the nature of common working-class
language. I founder, and begin to sink." Vance
exercises great influence upon the miners. Kowak,
'flamboyant, aggressive and outspoken"
politician, tries to exploit Vance to get the
votes of the miners. Vance is not comfortable with
this: "In the world of politics, the half-truth
is a way of life. It becomes truth with use and
justifies the manipulation of lives as if they are
pawns in a game where the means is subservient to
the end. I'm glad I'm not a politician."
Harrington,
the sage and philosopher, is giving a message
that we can come out triumphant out of chaos and
gloom of materialism if we fix our gaze on the
light of our own soul, and don't indulge in vain
rush foe power and greed. The most important thing
in life is to hear "the sound of our dreams."
The Great Raven protects those persons who
give and sympathize. The novel is strongly
planned, as each section of Anvil opens with
profoundly intense Northern parable with a quality
of the mystical and mysterious. The-toh-mek,
the great moccasin maker, neglected his craft
after becoming the chief. He "never regained the
peace of spirit that he had lost." He could
never find the magic again. "It is said that
The-toh-mek never again made moccasins of the
quality he made before he became chief, and that
he never again heard the songs of his children."
Anvil is remarkable for its spontaneous vitality and depth which
entitles it to a high place in cotemporary
fiction.
THE FARNSWORTH LEGACY
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Author:
Roger W. Harrington
Binding: Paperback
(pp: 215) ISBN: 978-81-8253-108-6
Availability: In Stock
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2008 Condition: New
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In the seven years I lived without Gwendolyn, my
life was free and without encumbrance. My father,
Edward Farnsworth, owned lands and properties that
extended far beyond my little world. I was told,
as a small child, that he worked in New York City.
I had some idea that our family name reached far
back into the past; almost, but not quite, to the
Mayflower. If people referred to our estate, they
called it Thornton. Just that. I don't know
where the name came from; father never told me
that I recall. All I knew of my father - all I
really ever knew, to be truthful - was that he
dealt in money and that we were rich; rich from
the past, and rich in the present. In rare moments
I would find him in his study and we would share a
distant kind of bond. He would hold me to him with
a kind of bemused look on his face; as if he
wondered at what he had sired. Then he would smile
at me, silently, and turn back to his work.
Roger W. Harrington
Born
in
England
. Former:
"Rock and Roll" star; gold miner; advisor to
the Thai government on ESL teaching; Frontier
College teacher; Honours Society of S.G.W.U.
President and ombudsman in the 'Computer Riot'
of the late sixties; Junior fellow of Massey
College; Russian interpreter for CAR; High school
teacher in English for thirty years; Deputy Mayor
and Reeve of the Town of Forest; first
vice-president of the Forest Legion.
Four languages spoken.
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