A tale of farm life featuring Beth, 15, as she milks the cows, shovels manure and fights off advances by boys and her father. But she welcomes the advances of an Indian girl from a reservation and an affair develops, opening her eyes to...
Canadian fiction (English)
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Auteur:Anderson-Dargatz, GailSommaire: -
Auteur:Wilson, EthelSommaire:Walking out on a demoralizing second marriage, Maggie Lloyd leaves Vancouver to work at a fishing lodge in the interior of British Columbia. But the serenity of Maggie’s new surroundings is soon disturbed by the irrational jealousy of...
- Auteur:Hodgins, JackSommaire:
Well crafted short stories in the classic style of Mansfield & Lawrence. Concerns ordinary people and their inner lives.
- Auteur:Kirkham, EmilySommaire:
A modern retelling of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility through the lens of two impoverished sisters facing life in a northern BC oil town. Ellie Dashwood, a welder on the oil worksite, and Valerie, a ballet dancer working as a...
- Auteur:Richler, MordecaiSommaire:
Joshua Then and Now is about Joshua Shapiro today, and the Joshua he was. His father a boxer turned honest crook, his mother an erotic dancer whose greatest performance was at Joshua bar mitzvah, Joshua has overcome his inauspicious...
