Sick Heart River

“Sick Heart River” is a powerful and compelling novel originally published in 1941. It is John Buchan''s last novel which was completed days before his death in 1940. It follows a dying protagonist, Edward Leithen, who confronts the question of the meaning of life while in the Canadian wilderness. Edward Leithen is perhaps John Buchan''s most autobiographical character and here Leithen is an old m...