The Tent Peg - Softcover

Van Herk, Aritha

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0889953120 ISBN 13: 9780889953123

Publisher: Red Deer Press, 2006

Synopsis

In The Tent Peg, award-winning novelist Aritha van Herk uses her unerring perception and impressive literary skill to capture the mystical mood of the Arctic and the people who are drawn to it.

In this intriguing story, a young woman who disguises herself as a man to work in a uranium prospecting camp deep in the Yukon mountains. J.L. is on the run from an empty heart and is desperate for solitude. Yet solitude eludes her from the moment she hangs up her pots and pans in the cook tent, and the men in the camp begin to drift toward her, drawn by her silence. These men are drifters, romantics and outcasts - men who have come to the North in search of answers for questions they can't define.

About this title

Review:

"The inevitable confrontations in this memorable novel leave no one unchanged."
-- "Library Journal"

"Unusual, skilled fiction. . . . Van Herk successfully manipulates an unusual narrative."
-- "Booklist"

"Written with care, sensitivity and considerable style."
-- "Publisher's Weekly"

"Aritha van Herk's creation of a mystical world infiltrated by reality captures little blue moments of intensity and truth that can hurt."
-- "Dallas Times-Herald"
"The inevitable confrontations in this memorable novel leave no one unchanged."
-- "Library Journal"

"Unusual, skilled fiction. . . . Van Herk successfully manipulates an unusual narrative."
-- "Booklist"

"Written with care, sensitivity and considerable style."
-- "Publisher's Weekly"

"Aritha van Herk's creation of a mystical world infiltrated by reality captures little blue moments of intensity and truth that can hurt."
-- "Dallas Times-Herald"
"The inevitable confrontations in this memorable novel leave no one unchanged."

-- Library Journal

"Unusual, skilled fiction. . . . Van Herk successfully manipulates an unusual narrative."

-- Booklist

"Written with care, sensitivity and considerable style."

-- Publisher's Weekly

"Aritha van Herk's creation of a mystical world infiltrated by reality captures little blue moments of intensity and truth that can hurt."

-- Dallas Times-Herald

About the Author:

Aritha van Herk was born in central Alberta, and studied at the University of Alberta. She first rose to international literary prominence with the publication of Judith, which received the Seal First Novel Award and which was published in North America, the United Kingdom and Europe. She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Professor who teaches Canadian Literature and Creative Writing in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.

About this edition

• Publisher: Red Deer Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0889953120
• ISBN 13: 9780889953123
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224