Country of Cold
Country of Cold
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Author(s): Patterson, Kevin
ISBN No.: 9780307425355
Pages: 272
Year: 200712
Format: E-Book
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Set in the beautiful, often uncompromising isolation of the central plains of North America, Kevin Pattersons haunting stories explore the extent to which geography is destiny. In Les is More an overweight bartender determines to break the monotony of his life by curling up in a steel barrel and going over the local waterfalls. In The Perseid Shower a son reflects on his father's passion for meteor showers and all he failed to understand about his father's galaxy. In Boatbuilding, a lonely divorcee builds a vessel with which she hopes to leave behind one life and drop anchor in another. And in the final story, characters from across the collection make a curious but moving connection at their high school reunion in Dunsmuir, Manitoba. Author of the acclaimed memoir The Water in Betweena New York Times Notable BookKevin Patterson has poured his narrative gifts, his familiarity with the natural world, and a delicate understanding of human nature, into a striking fiction debut.From the Trade Paperback edition.


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