The Double Hook by Sheila Watson

Sheila Watson’s The Double Hook is considered “a seminal work in the development of contemporary Canadian literature”, and “Canada’s first modernist novel due to how it ‘departs from traditional plot, character development, form and style to tell a poetic tale of human suffering and redemption that is at once fabular, allegorical and symbolic.’” [Wikipedia] First issued in 1959, this is the cover of a paperback edition published in 1960 by McClelland and Stewart in their New Canadian Library series.