Back Turtle Novel (15 results)

Paperback. Condition: Good. Winner of the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction This is Thomas King's first literary novel in 15 years and follows on the success of the award-winning and best-selling The Inconvenient Indian and his beloved Green Grass, Running Water and Truth and Bright Water, both of which continue to be taught in Canadian schools and universities. Green Grass, Running Water is widely considered a contemporary Canadian classic. In The Back of the Turtle, Gabriel returns to Smoke River, the reserve where his mother grew up and to which she returned with Gabriel's sister. The reserve is deserted after an environmental disaster killed the population, including Gabriel's family, and the wildlife. Gabriel, a brilliant scientist working for Domidion, created GreenSweep, and indirectly led to the crisis. Now he has come to see the damage and to kill himself in the sea. But as he prepares to let the water take him, he sees a young girl in the waves. Plunging in, he saves her, and soon is saving others. Who are these people with their long black hair and almond eyes who have fallen from the sky? Filled with brilliant characters, trademark wit, wordplay, and a thorough knowledge of native myth and story-telling, this novel is a masterpiece by one of our most important writers.…

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Paperback. Condition: Good. Winner of the 2014 Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction This is Thomas King's first literary novel in 15 years and follows on the success of the award-winning and best-selling The Inconvenient Indian and his beloved Green Grass, Running Water and Truth and Bright Water, both of which continue to be taught in Canadian schools and universities. Green Grass, Running Water is widely considered a contemporary Canadian classic. In The Back of the Turtle, Gabriel returns to Smoke River, the reserve where his mother grew up and to which she returned with Gabriel's sister. The reserve is deserted after an environmental disaster killed the population, including Gabriel's family, and the wildlife. Gabriel, a brilliant scientist working for Domidion, created GreenSweep, and indirectly led to the crisis. Now he has come to see the damage and to kill himself in the sea. But as he prepares to let the water take him, he sees a young girl in the waves. Plunging in, he saves her, and soon is saving others. Who are these people with their long black hair and almond eyes who have fallen from the sky? Filled with brilliant characters, trademark wit, wordplay, and a thorough knowledge of native myth and story-telling, this novel is a masterpiece by one of our most important writers.…

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Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. A Good copy showing moderate wear. May include minor highlighting or notes, small corner bends, or mild spine creasing. All pages intact and fully readable. A solid, used reading copy. Inventory # 498.

Paperback. Condition: Acceptable.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Good.

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. First printing. Light soil to outer edges, light stain mark to fore-edge and light creasing from page handling. Bow to boards. DJ has light edge/rub wear and light creasing. Actual book for sale pictured. Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction 2014. 16 x 23.6 x 4.1cm, wt900g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hard Cover. Condition: VG. Dust Jacket Condition: VG. First Edition. First printing. Light soil to outer edges and light creasing from page handling. The first few pages are cut rough (see pictures, possible production error). DJ has light edge/rub wear and light creasing. Actual book for sale pictured. Winner of the Governor General's Literary Award for fiction 2014. 16 x 23.6 x 4.1cm, wt900g Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. HBDJ, FIRST PUBLISHED IN 1974 , STATED 1ST EDITION, #1 IS INTACT IN # LINE. NF+/NF+ Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1974. Hardcover. 0670691674 . First printing. Near fine in a near fine (some light foxing) dust jacket. . Hardback cloth illustrated cvr matches dj Illustration ,He was 1 of many turtles back in Mesozoic Era who wondered how he would survive the Coming Ice Age. settling Himself Under a Tree, he waited Until a thick Layer of resin had dripped on His back & so he became 1st turtle with a Shell. Many such Unknown facts of turtle History make up th etales Aunt Myrtle tells to Her Niece GLORIA & NEPHEW WITHERSPOON. . WE OWE GROUNDHOG DAY TO HER & HER HUSBAND HERMAN. Uncle Herman inspired edison to invent Lite Bulb too, Eavesdropping on Illustrious Turtle family.…

paperback. Condition: Good. Paperback. Pub Date :1936-03 Pages: 798 Publisher: World Book content pages complete. just a book by a revised four author (Zhang Chunfan -. inflammation name. not the Department of rinse six Hillside Garden. Changzhou. Jiangsu d. 1935) claimed \ is not idle pen and ink. Kuang effort to do that prostitution sector guide. history of flowers \ (33 back). Critics chose not appreciate the almost a speech to reach is determined that the nine turtles \ prostitution circles Guide. flowers history \. …