Connections: A Good Man

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Guy Vanderhaeghe's A Good Man McClelland & Stewart, 2011 Sebastian Barry has said that a good historical novel is about "retrieving the present moment".* That is true of Guy Vanderhaeghe's A Good Man. From the beautiful but austere cover art of the frontier, to the detailed descriptions of fort and

Connections: A Good Man2014-07-11T16:16:01-04:00

Crossings: Into the Heart of the Country

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See L=Locale below for clues for these images Pauline Holdstock's Into the Heart of the Country Harper Collins, 2011 In 1693, an English man named Henry Kelsey wrote a poem about journeying into the heart of this country: “Then up ye River I with heavy heart Did take

Crossings: Into the Heart of the Country2014-03-13T21:19:21-04:00

Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen (1998)

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Tomson Highway's Kiss of the Fur Queen Doubleday 1998 It’s February and Abraham Okimasis is on a sled pulled by eight huskies, racing to the finish line in northern Manitoba. That’s the opening scene of Tomson Highway’s first novel, Kiss of the Fur Queen. The reader, however, receives mixed messages

Tomson Highway’s Kiss of the Fur Queen (1998)2019-05-11T19:55:27-04:00

Canada Reads Indie: Thomas King

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Thomas King’s Truth and Bright Water Harper-Flamingo, 1999 Truth is the railroad town on one side of the river, in the United States; Bright Water is the reserve on the other side of the river, in Canada. Once there had been a plan to build a bridge, but something went

Canada Reads Indie: Thomas King2014-03-10T20:32:28-04:00

Witi Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider (1987)

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Witi Ihimaera's The Whale Rider (1987) Harcourt Inc, 2003 The Whale Rider is set on the East Coast of New Zealand, and that is, indeed, where Paikea is the tipuna ancestor, but this is a novel, not a narrative of myth and culture. It is a story of one fictional

Witi Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider (1987)2014-03-10T19:36:58-04:00
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