October : a novel

Wright, Richard B. (Richard Bruce), 1937-2017.

Book 2007

In England to see his gravely ill daughter, James Hillyer, a retired professor of Victorian literature, meets by chance a man he once knew as a boy, Gabriel Fontaine, and is asked by Gabriel to accompany him on a final, unthinkable journey.

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