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Near water: a novel (New age. #12.)
Par Hugh Hood. 2000
Matthew Goderich is driving up to the lake for a possible reunion with Edie, from whom he has been separated…
for thirty years. Then it happens - he has a stroke. This novel takes the reader through the pain, the delusions, and the sudden interior crisis Matt experiences during this "cerebrovascular accident" and his twenty-eight hour stream-of-consciousness before death. 2000. (The new age ; 12)Les belles soeurs
Par Michel Tremblay. 1974
Lake of the prairies: a story of belonging
Par Warren Cariou. 2002
Cariou's memoir on growing up in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, where he witnessed the discrimination, anger and fear directed at the…
town's Cree and Métis populations by the European settlers. While he has absorbed these prejudices as his own, he is forced to confront the politics of race as an adult. Then, he discovers secrets that his family had kept hidden for generations, secrets that would alter forever his sense of identity and belonging in Meadow Lake. Winner of the Drainie-Taylor Biography Prize of the 2003 Writers' Trust of Canada Awards. 2002.Exploded view: observations on reading, writing and life
Par Jean McKay. 2001
The exploded view is a diagram which shows how each component of an object relates to the whole, and is…
usually applied to machinery. McKay uses it to explode everything from macaroons to metaphors. In her alphabetical essays she explodes language and her world view, taking a variety of things apart, from babies and crabapples to funerals and acorns, and putting them back together in unexpected ways. Some strong language.Cairns, through the study of the historical record, discusses the desired relation of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal peoples to each other…
in Canada. He considers the differences between the assimilationist assumptions of the imperial era and the more recent attempts at nation-to-nation negotiations supported by the Royal Commission on Aboriginal Peoples, and contemplates whether either of these approaches can lead to an outcome that will satisfy both sides. 2000.The Penelopiad: The Myth Of Penelope And Odysseus (The myths series)
Par Margaret Atwood. 2005
For Penelope, wife of Odysseus, maintaining a kingdom while her husband fights in the Trojan War is not easy -…
already aggrieved by the shocking behaviour of her cousin Helen, she must bring up her wayward son, face down scandalous rumours, and keep over a hundred lusty, greedy and bloodthirsty suitors at bay. When Odysseus finally returns home and slaughters the suitors, he also brutally hangs Penelope's twelve beloved maids. What were his motives, and what was Penelope herself really up to? 2005.Dry lips oughta move to Kapuskasing: a play
Par Tomson Highway. 1989
Sequel to "The rez sisters" (EB64360), this play tells another story of the mythical Wasaychigan Hill Indian Reserve. Focuses on…
seven "Wasy" men and the game of hockey. Some strong language. 1989.