Book
Country of cold.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385722179
- ISBN: 0385722176
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Physical Description:
print
p. ; cm. - Publisher: New York : Anchor Books, 2004.
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| Genre: | Short stories. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Salt Spring Island Public Library.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Salt Spring Island Public Library | FIC PAT (Text) | 050916 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
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A collection of short stories about young men and women from rural Canada follows each character's quest to come to terms with the challenges of adulthood, during which all but one of them seek warmer climates. Reprint. 10,000 first printing. - Random House, Inc.
Set in the beautiful, often uncompromising isolation of the central plains of North America, Kevin Pattersonâs haunting stories explore the extent to which geography is destiny. In "Les is More" an overweight bartender determines to break the monotony of his life by curling up in a steel barrel and going over the local waterfalls. In "The Perseid Shower" a son reflects on his father's passion for meteor showers and all he failed to understand about his father's galaxy. In "Boatbuilding," a lonely divorcee builds a vessel with which she hopes to leave behind one life and drop anchor in another. And in the final story, characters from across the collection make a curious but moving connection at their high school reunion in Dunsmuir, Manitoba.
Author of the acclaimed memoir The Water in Betweenâa New York Times Notable BookâKevin Patterson has poured his narrative gifts, his familiarity with the natural world, and a delicate understanding of human nature, into a striking fiction debut.
