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Author: Aritha Van Herk Publisher: Red Deer, Alta. : Red Deer College Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 212
Book Description
A restless, wandering woman, whose life and work is to travel, determines that the only way she can appease her terrible homesickness is to occupy the still center of death. Unable to commit suicide, she hires a professional killer and contracts him to kill her, by her choice and on her terms. In an effort to dissuade her from death, her killer elicits from her stories about her travels. In this reversal of Sheherazade, who saves her life through a continuous story, Restlessness becomes a story about how to avoid story, a travel book about how to evade travel, a manual for how to stay put.
Author: Aritha Van Herk Publisher: Red Deer, Alta. : Red Deer College Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 212
Book Description
A restless, wandering woman, whose life and work is to travel, determines that the only way she can appease her terrible homesickness is to occupy the still center of death. Unable to commit suicide, she hires a professional killer and contracts him to kill her, by her choice and on her terms. In an effort to dissuade her from death, her killer elicits from her stories about her travels. In this reversal of Sheherazade, who saves her life through a continuous story, Restlessness becomes a story about how to avoid story, a travel book about how to evade travel, a manual for how to stay put.
Author: Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books Ltd ISBN: 1927330297 Category : Photography Languages : en Pages : 137
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George Webber’s poignant black-and-white photographs transport us into the forgotten, unknowable communities of the Canadian prairies. Throughout the journey, we’re confronted by the mysterious particulars of life, death, landscape and faith. Intimate portraits and the hard facts of the place are woven together to create a body of work that is by turns inspiring, consoling and sometimes achingly sad. Individually, these works startle and challenge. As a collection, they represent a photographer’s decades-long meditation on the ever-changing face of the Canadian West.
Author: Aritha Van Herk Publisher: Red Deer, Alta. : Red Deer College Press ISBN: Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 156
Book Description
Internationally acclaimed novelist Aritha van Herk takes geography and fiction and creates of them a geografictione�a fiction mapped on the lines of geography, a geography following the course of fiction. A new reading of Tolstoy's tragic heroine Anna Karenina and a sojourn at Ellesmere Island come together, and the North becomes an incomparably beautiful place, a living, unread, feminine landscape.
Author: Robert Kroetsch Publisher: University of Alberta ISBN: 9780888644251 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 230
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Hazard Lepage, the last of the studhorse men, sets out to breed his rare blue stallion, Poseidon. A lusty trickster and a wayward knight, Hazard's outrageous adventures are narrated by Demeter Proudfoot, his secret rival, who writes this story while sitting naked in an empty bathtub. In his quest to save his stallion’s bloodline from extinction, Hazard leaves a trail of anarchy and confusion. Everything he touches erupts into chaos, necessitating frequent convalescences in the arms of a few good women, except for those of Martha, his long-suffering intended. Told with the ribald zeal of a Prairie beer parlor tall tale and the mythic magnitude of a Greek odyssey, The Studhorse Man is Robert Kroetsch’s celebration of unbridled character set against the backdrop of rough-and-ready Alberta emerging after the Second World War. Introduction by Aritha van Herk.
Author: Aritha Van Herk Publisher: NeWest Publishers Ltd. ISBN: Category : Literary Criticism Languages : en Pages : 244
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Aritha van Herk explores other texts, other bodies, other moments arising from the otheredness of the writer in the uneasy position of critic.
Author: Christl Verduyn Publisher: Guernica Editions ISBN: 9781550711332 Category : Literary Collections Languages : en Pages : 132
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In 1978, a young Canadian writer named Aritha van Herk captured international attention by winning the first Seal Books (Canada) First Novel Award for her story about a pig farmer called Judith. She was twenty-four years old then and she has been writing steadily ever since. This book presents five essays on her work.
Author: Aritha Van Herk Publisher: ISBN: 9781552389003 Category : Universities and colleges Languages : en Pages :
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"In 2016, the University of Calgary celebrates its 50th anniversary, marking the year we achieved autonomy--made possible only through the audacious vision and dedication of students, faculty, staff, alumni and Calgary community members who lobbied over decades for an independent institution. Since its inception, the university has remained true to this bold and ambitious spirit, growing into Canada's and North America's top-ranked university under the age of 50. We have worked hard to grow a strong university family, where people are united in a set of core values and common goals, and where those we are privileged to welcome to campus every day feel well supported, encouraged, and continuously challenged to make a difference in the world. Through this publication, we recognize and celebrate the contributions and achievements of the many students, faculty, staff, alumni, donors and friends who have helped create this remarkable institution."--
Author: Aritha Van Herk
Author: Aritha Van Herk
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Author: Aritha Van Herk
Author: Robert Kroetsch
Author: Aritha Van Herk
Author: Aritha Van Herk
Author: Aritha Van Herk
Author: Christl Verduyn
Author: Aritha Van Herk
Author: Aritha Van Herk