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Chargement... The Studhorse Man (1969)par Robert Kroetsch
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Sheer page-turning and character-building genius, the book is a ribald roam through a slightly magicly real prairie landscape of the recent past in the rough imaginary vicinity of Edmonton in the first half of the 20th century. I thought I read the echo of a Malcolm Lowry short story in the fictional biographer's intrusions, and in turn I wondered if Elizabeth Hay was inspired by the fire scene to use something similar in her novel Alone in the Classroom, which shared a rough timeframe. A tour de force that won the Governor General's Award for fiction, my only irrelevant comment is Why do Canadian publishers insist on publishing in American English? Have they no pride? But never mind--a superb novel by the U. of Iowa graduate. This novelist and poet died in a car crash in Alberta in 2011, and was an Officer of the Order of Canada. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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Hazard Lepage, the last of the studhorse men, sets out to breed his rare blue stallion, Poseidon. A lusty trickster and a wayward knight, Hazard's outrageous adventures are narrated by Demeter Proudfoot, his secret rival, who writes this story while sitting naked in an empty bathtub. In his quest to save his stallion's bloodline from extinction, Hazard leaves a trail of anarchy and confusion. Everything he touches erupts into chaos necessitating frequent convalescences in the arms of a few good women-excepting those of Martha, his long-suffering intended. Told with the ribald zeal of a Prairie beer parlor tall tale and the mythic magnitude of a Greek odyssey, The Studhorse Man is Robert Kroetsch's celebration of unbridled character set against the backdrop of a rough-and-ready Alberta emerging after the war. Winner of the Governor General's Award for Fiction. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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