Restlessness
Restlessness

Author: Aritha Van Herk

Publisher: Red Deer, Alta. : Red Deer College Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 212

ISBN-13:

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A restless, wandering woman, whose life and work is to travel, determines that the only way she can appease her terrible homesickness is to occupy the still center of death. Unable to commit suicide, she hires a professional killer and contracts him to kill her, by her choice and on her terms. In an effort to dissuade her from death, her killer elicits from her stories about her travels. In this reversal of Sheherazade, who saves her life through a continuous story, Restlessness becomes a story about how to avoid story, a travel book about how to evade travel, a manual for how to stay put.

Prairie Gothic
Prairie Gothic

Author:

Publisher: Rocky Mountain Books Ltd

Published: 2013-01-01

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 1927330297

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George Webber’s poignant black-and-white photographs transport us into the forgotten, unknowable communities of the Canadian prairies. Throughout the journey, we’re confronted by the mysterious particulars of life, death, landscape and faith. Intimate portraits and the hard facts of the place are woven together to create a body of work that is by turns inspiring, consoling and sometimes achingly sad. Individually, these works startle and challenge. As a collection, they represent a photographer’s decades-long meditation on the ever-changing face of the Canadian West.

The Tent Peg
The Tent Peg

Author: Aritha Van Herk

Publisher: Calgary : Red Deer Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780889953123

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In The Tent Peg, award-winning novelist Aritha van Herk uses her unerring perception and impressive literary skill to capture the mystical mood of the Arctic and the people who are drawn to it. In this intriguing story, a young woman who disguises herself as a man to work in a uranium prospecting camp deep in the Yukon mountains. J.L. is on the run from an empty heart and is desperate for solitude. Yet solitude eludes her from the moment she hangs up her pots and pans in the cook tent, and the men in the camp begin to drift toward her, drawn by her silence. These men are drifters, romantics and outcasts - men who have come to the North in search of answers for questions they can't define.

Places Far from Ellesmere
Places Far from Ellesmere

Author: Aritha Van Herk

Publisher: Red Deer, Alta. : Red Deer College Press

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 156

ISBN-13:

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Internationally acclaimed novelist Aritha van Herk takes geography and fiction and creates of them a geografictione�a fiction mapped on the lines of geography, a geography following the course of fiction. A new reading of Tolstoy's tragic heroine Anna Karenina and a sojourn at Ellesmere Island come together, and the North becomes an incomparably beautiful place, a living, unread, feminine landscape.

Aritha Van Herk
Aritha Van Herk

Author: Christl Verduyn

Publisher: Guernica Editions

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781550711332

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In 1978, a young Canadian writer named Aritha van Herk captured international attention by winning the first Seal Books (Canada) First Novel Award for her story about a pig farmer called Judith. She was twenty-four years old then and she has been writing steadily ever since. This book presents five essays on her work.

No Fixed Address
No Fixed Address

Author: Aritha Van Herk

Publisher: Red Deer, Alta. : Red Deer College Press

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780889951839

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Arachne Manteia is a road rider, a traveling sales rep who drives a classic Mercedes and peddles women's underwear for a living. From her working class childhood to her comfortable adult life, Arachne refuses the conventional and embraces whatever adventure fate throws in her path. A rogue sales rep with a man in every town, she lures each into her web of desire. All of them she claims as part of her never-ending journey, which promises fulfillment but offers no map for her longing. Always ready to fight and flee, Arachne Manteia is the quintessential picara, skillfully reckless, frighteningly irresistible, ready to go to the edge of the mappable world and beyond.

In Visible Ink
In Visible Ink

Author: Aritha Van Herk

Publisher: NeWest Publishers Ltd.

Published: 1991

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13:

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Aritha van Herk explores other texts, other bodies, other moments arising from the otheredness of the writer in the uneasy position of critic.

The Studhorse Man
The Studhorse Man

Author: Robert Kroetsch

Publisher: University of Alberta

Published: 2004-04-28

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 9780888644251

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Hazard Lepage, the last of the studhorse men, sets out to breed his rare blue stallion, Poseidon. A lusty trickster and a wayward knight, Hazard's outrageous adventures are narrated by Demeter Proudfoot, his secret rival, who writes this story while sitting naked in an empty bathtub. In his quest to save his stallion’s bloodline from extinction, Hazard leaves a trail of anarchy and confusion. Everything he touches erupts into chaos, necessitating frequent convalescences in the arms of a few good women, except for those of Martha, his long-suffering intended. Told with the ribald zeal of a Prairie beer parlor tall tale and the mythic magnitude of a Greek odyssey, The Studhorse Man is Robert Kroetsch’s celebration of unbridled character set against the backdrop of rough-and-ready Alberta emerging after the Second World War. Introduction by Aritha van Herk.