by Robert MacNeil · Mariner Books · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780156006095
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«Burden of Desire» is the historical love novel by Robert MacNeil, published by Mariner Books in paperback (466 pages, in English).
After the 1917 explosion of an ammunition ship in Halifax (Nova Scotia), Peter Wentworth finds among the rubble a diary with the confessions of a young woman and becomes obsessed with finding its owner. The novel combines that mystery with a romance of desire, loss, and connection amid devastation.
Originally published in 1992, this 1998 reprint edition belongs to the A Harvest Book collection.
For readers of historical and romantic fiction, and for book clubs interested in fiction set in Canada.
Robert Breckenridge Ware MacNeil, often known as Robin MacNeil, was a Canadian-American journalist, writer and television news anchor. He partnered with Jim Lehrer to create the landmark public television news program The Robert MacNeil Report in 1975. MacNeil co-anchored the program until 1995. The show eventually became the MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour and is today PBS News Hour.
