Red dog, red dog.
Red dog, red dog.
By
:
Lane, Patrick, 1939-
Publication Date
:
2008
Subject Term
:
Canadian fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Okanagan Valley (B.C.) -- History -- Fiction.
Geographic Term
:
Canada, Western -- History -- Fiction.
Genre
:
Historical fiction.
Summary
:
Tom and Eddy's father, Elmer Stark, a violent man with a troubled past, and Lillian, who married as a girl to escape life on the farm with her widowed mother, and now retreats into her own isolation. Unrepentant, bitter, older brother Eddy speeds freely along, his desperate path fuelled by drugs and weapons, while Tom, a loner, attempts to conceal their secrets and protect what remains of the family. Eventually, an unspeakable crime causes him to come face to face with something traumatic that has lain hidden in him since he was a boy. Narrated in part by one of the dead infant daughters Elmer has buried, the story unfolds gradually, as it weaves in family stories that reach back to the depression days and the harsh life of settlers in the 1880s West.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780771046353
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Fox Harbour (AFH) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC LAN | Please Request |
Placentia (APA) | Adult Fic Softcover | Adult Fiction Softcover | FIC LAN | Checked In |
St. Alban's (CSA) | Adult Fic | Adult Fiction | FIC LAN | Checked In |