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The Great Karoo
by Stenson, Fred
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0385664052
- ISBN 13
- 9780385664059
- Seller
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Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
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About This Item
Toronto, ON, Canada: Doubleday Canada, Limited, 2008. 1st Edition 1st Printing. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. SIGNED BY FREDERICK STENSON on title page; Clean, tight, unmarked; very minimal wear; "The novel centres on Frank Adams - a wide-eyed cowboy who joins the Canadian Mounted Rifles. Stenson paints a vast and damning portrait of war. But a species of transcendent light shows through in the tender feelings men harbour for their horses, in the fierce, unspoken friendships those men forge, and the life-affirming rush of romantic love.
Synopsis
Fred Stenson was born in Pincher Creek, Alberta, in 1951, and was raised on a farm in ranching country just to the south, near Twin Butte. After attending school in Pincher Creek, he completed a degree in economics at the University of Calgary in 1972. It is his home region — bordered by the Rockies to the west, a Blood Indian reserve to the east, and Montana to the south — that features prominently in much of his historical fiction. Since his first novel, Lonesome Hero , in 1974, Fred Stenson has published fourteen more books of fiction and non-fiction, and has written scripts for over 140 produced films and videos. It was his masterful third novel, The Trade (2000), which propelled Stenson into the elite ranks of Canadian fiction writers when it was nominated for the Giller Prize, in addition to winning the inaugural Grant MacEwan Writer’s Award, the City of Edmonton Book Prize, and the Writers Guild of Alberta’s Georges Bugnet Novel Award. Widely praised for its historical depth and vivid prose, The Trade is set in the Canadian West during last days of the fur trade, when the Hudson’s Bay Company traders ruled the rivers far from the eyes of eastern authorities. Stenson’s next novel, Lightning (2003), took up where The Trade left off — when ranching replaced fur trading in the West, and cowboys led vast herds of cattle up through the American states to Montana, Wyoming, and Alberta. Lightning also won the Grant MacEwan Writer’s Award. The Great Karoo is Fred Stenson’s eighth work of fiction. It follows The Trade and Lightning in telling an epic tale about life in the West through the eyes of regular individuals fighting to make it through each day, despite the large and often indifferent powers that control their fortunes. Today, Fred Stenson lives in Cochrane, Alberta.
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- Werdz Quality Used Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 001706
- Title
- The Great Karoo
- Author
- Stenson, Fred
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0385664052
- ISBN 13
- 9780385664059
- Publisher
- Doubleday Canada, Limited
- Place of Publication
- Toronto, ON, Canada
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- CANADIAN FICTION HISTORY ALBERTA SOUTH AFRICAN WAR CANADIAN MOUNTED RIFLES SIGNED COLLECTIBLE
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