The powerful, major book, acclaimed across Canada, from the great-great-granddaughter of Chief Big Bear and Rudy Wiebe, twice winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction. A story of justice and social injustices, of murder and morality, and of finding spiritual strength in events that might break us, told with redeeming compassion and poetic eloquence. Stolen Life is a raw, honest, and beautifully written account of the troubled society we live in, and a deeply moving affirmation of spiritual healing.
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ISBN:0676971962
ISBN:9780676971965
Physical Description:xii, 444 p. ; 21 cm.
Edition:Vintage Canada ed.
Publisher:Toronto : Vintage Canada, 1998.
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note:
ONE: Blood Runs Thick and Long and For Ever -- TWO: My Eyes Become My Voice -- THREE: A Killing in the Family -- FOUR: The Only Good "First Nation" -- FIVE: That's Right, Drive Me to Winter -- SIX: Growing Up in a Beer Bottle -- SEVEN: Wetaskiwin: The Place Where Peace Is Made -- EIGHT: Down into Disaster -- NINE: Three Days in September 1989 -- TEN: If I Gave You a Gun, Would You Shoot Me? -- ELEVEN: You Have Nothing To Hope, and Nothing to Fear -- TWELVE: The Power of My Name, Why I Must Remember This -- THIRTEEN: If I Don't Beat You Up, You'll Sleep With Me? -- FOURTEEN: Spirit Keepers -- FIFTEEN: What You Did, and Where You Did It -- SIXTEEN: Since The Time When the Earth Was First Born.
Summary: The powerful, major book, acclaimed across Canada, from the great-great-granddaughter of Chief Big Bear and Rudy Wiebe, twice winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction. A story of justice and social injustices, of murder and morality, and of finding spiritual strength in events that might break us, told with redeeming compassion and poetic eloquence. Stolen Life is a raw, honest, and beautifully written account of the troubled society we live in, and a deeply moving affirmation of spiritual healing.
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