Consumption - Couverture souple

Patterson, Kevin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0307278948 ISBN 13 : 9780307278944

Editeur : Anchor Books, 2008

Synopsis

Born in the 1950s, Victoria knows nothing but the nomadic life of the Inuit until, at age ten, she is sent to a sanitarium to recover from tuberculosis. Six years later, she returns to a radically different world, a stranger to her family and culture. She marries a non-Inuit, Robertson; as their children gravitate toward the pop culture of the mainland, and as her husband exploits the economic opportunities that the Arctic offers, Victoria is torn between her family and her ancestors, between the communal life of the North and the material life of the "South." Kevin Patterson, acclaimed author of The Water in Between and Country of Cold, exposes the consequences of cultural assimilation, and the toll that modernization takes on communities in this epic novel of the Arctic.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Kevin Patterson grew up in Manitoba, and put himself through medical school by joining the Canadian army. Now a specialist in internal medicine, he practices in the Arctic and on the coast of British Columbia. His first book, The Water In Between, was a New York Times Notable Book. Country of Cold, his debut short fiction collection, won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize in 2003, as well as the inaugural City of Victoria Butler Book Prize. He lives on Saltspring Island, Canada.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Anchor Books
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0307278948
• ISBN 13: 9780307278944
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 400
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• Personne responsable: non disponible