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I Want to Die in My Boots - Couverture souple

Appleton, Natalie

 
9781990071270: I Want to Die in My Boots
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1990071279 ISBN 13 : 9781990071270
Editeur : Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd, 2025

Synopsis

"A captivating, untold portrait of Belle Jane, a larger than life woman who led a gang of cattle thieves in Saskatchewan in the 1920s -- defying social conventions and living a life full of rebellion." --CBC Books


A debut novel by an exciting new voice in Canadian literature, I Want to Die in My Boots weaves fact and fiction to tell the true-ish story of horse thief Belle Jane.

I Want to Die in My Boots is the untold story of Belle Jane, the woman who ran one of Canada's largest cattle thieving rings in the 1920s, who brilliantly broke every taboo, took the names of five different husbands, and nearly followed the tragic end of her great hero, the outlaw queen Belle Starr.

Dark and daring, meticulously researched and mostly true, I Want to Die in My Boots is a lyrical, unconventional literary novel that gives voice to the unheard in a long-forgotten world. After leaving Montana for a third husband and the ranch she'd always wanted, Belle settles in Saskatchewan, before spending her final years in Penticton, reading tarot cards for strangers.

Written a century after her arrest, this fictional tribute to Belle Jane, an unsung hero in Canada's west, is inventive yet thoughtful, a work of Prairie literary fiction that takes an edgy twist to history. I Want to Die in My Boots will appeal to readers of Annie Proulx, Sheila Watson, Robert Kroetsch, and Maggie O'Farrell, and to viewers of Yellowstone and The Power of the Dog.

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À propos de l'auteur

Natalie Appleton studied journalism at the University of Regina and creative writing at City University London. Her literary travel memoir, I Have Something to Tell You, followed publication of an essay in The New York Times. Natalie has won Prairie Fire's Banff Centre Bliss Carman Poetry Award and Room Magazine's¬ Creative Non-fiction Contest. She lives in the Okanagan with her husband and sons.

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Éditeur
Brindle and Glass Publishing, Ltd
Date d'édition
2025
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1990071279
ISBN 13 
9781990071270
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
272
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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