One of the "great Canadian classics", so of course I read it in high school but hadn't read it since. Still an excellent book, beautifully written, with interesting characters and an unexpected twist at the end. The self-narrated memoir of Dunstan Ramsay, through childhood in a small Canadian town, service in World War I, a career as university lecturer and author, and throughout a series of recurring acquaintances who develop through the course of the book and finally reunite at the conclusion.