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|title=A World Elsewhere

|sort=World Elsewhere, A

|publisher=Vintage

|date=August 2013

|website=http://waynejohnston.ca/

|video=mX_I346wXg4

|summary=Newfoundland austerity meets Vanderbilt exorbitance in Johnston's peculiarly blended tale of two university friends whose lives converge over an orphan boy at a North Carolina mansion. A well-realized, playful but scattered work of historical fiction.

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Landish Druken is a great hulk of a man who lumbers through his hometown of St John's, Newfoundland. Although he thinks of himself as a writer, he has never written a word he didn't feel compelled to burn, and everyone knows him as the wayward son of accomplished sealing captain Abram Druken. Landish escaped to study literature at Princeton, where he met best friend Padgett 'Van' Vanderluyden, the 'dud' son of an industrial tycoon and a rumoured homosexual, but he broke his promise to join his father's sealing empire on his return in 1893, and now lives in poverty and disgrace.