In a wide country : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 9781770865006 (paperback)
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Physical Description:
327 pages ; 22 cm
regular print
print - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: Toronto : Cormorant Books, 2017.
- Copyright: ©2017.
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Subject: | Mothers and sons -- Fiction Automobile travel -- Fiction |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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Gibsons Public Library | FIC EVER (Text) | 30886001037627 | Adult Fiction Hardcover | Volume hold | Available | - |
Summary:
"Set in 1961, when the TransCanada Highway was only two lanes and, in some areas, not paved, In a Wide Country is the story of twelve-year-old Jasper and his mother, Corrine. A single mother, at a time when this designation was uncommon and carried with it serious social stigma, Corrine is a free spirit -- or so her son believes until he is confronted her eventual breakdown. In his debut novel, Robert Everett-Green, Globe and Mail arts columnist, takes the reader for an astonishing ride in Corrine's 1961 Corvair as mother and son drive from Winnipeg to a farm in Alberta, then Edmonton, then to Vancouver. As they cross the prairies, Jasper learns that his mother's explanations and stories just don't hold the water they should - especially when it comes to establishing who his father was and what became of him."--