WHAT THE CROW SAID - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0888643039 ISBN 13: 9780888643032

Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA PRESS, 1998

Synopsis

The University of Alberta Press is pleased to issue this new edition of the classic Canadian novel, What the Crow Said, a major work by one of western Canada's best-known and best-respected authors.

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Review:

"[The] reissued What the Crow Said and The Words of My Roaring. honour Kroetsch's enormous contribution to Canadian literature and . ensure his work will be available to a new generation of readers." - University of Toronto Quarterly, Winter 2001/2002, Letters in Canada, vol 71:1

Synopsis:

Tells the exuberant, ribald, elemental tale of the citizens of a town somewhere on the weather-beaten border between Alberta and Saskatchewan. After Vera Lang consorts with a swarm of bees, something changes in Big Indian. This prairie municipality -- so remote from the rest of the world that its citizens aren't sure which province they can live in -- becomes somehow locked inside its own world of patience, yearning and wilful struggle with nature. Along the way, Big Indian emerges as a place simultaneously in the past and in the present, the real and the imaginary, where a game of cards might last forever and a defeated farmer can freeze on his snowbound plough in June. With his sun-sharpened imagery, unstoppable language play, and frank intimacy with the landscape, Robert Kroetsch creates in What the Crow Said a quintessentially prairie novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA PRESS
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0888643039
• ISBN 13: 9780888643032
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 1