Of This Earth - A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest

Zusatztext “A remarkable insider’s view of Canada’s own Grapes of Wrath -like internal migration during the Dirty Thirties! and the way it transformed a ‘bushyard bumpkin’ into Western Canada’s most iconic novelist. . . .Vigorous . . . vivid. . . . Of This Earth is a wonderful gift to patient readers who delight in remembering times soo lang tridj! daut es meist nijch meea soo (so long ago! it is almost no longer so.)” — The Globe and Mail “Wiebe is one of Canada’s most prolific and most esteemed writers. . . . The poetic memoir traces both the growth of a young man and the growth of a writer.” — The Record (Kitchener-Waterloo) “When he sets words to image! Cornelius Krieghoff-like masterpieces emerge.” — The Gazette (Montreal) “Wiebe wields the disparate funny! sad and messy facts of his Depression-era rural-Saskatchewan childhood in an engrossing way. He packs in the detail! but keeps the narrative moving. Of This Earth is a fine memoir.” — Winnipeg Free Press “The genius of Wiebe’s writing [is his] ability to take what is a single event in a community’s life! relate it to the world at large! and make it as personal as is possible.” — Calgary Herald “It is safe to predict that Of This Earth will become a classic! and shows Wiebe at his best: clear-eyed! wise and with a writing style that’s as vigorous as it is evocative. . . . This one may well be his masterpiece. . . . There is a profound depth of memory in the book.” — Edmonton Journal (profile) “In Of This Earth ! Rudy Wiebe tells the story of his early years in Speedwell! Sask.! and he tells it in prose of striking beauty and simplicity. . . . It is a lovely book! and I would not be at all surprised if in years to come it emerges as a classic of growing up in the Canadian West. . . . unforgettable! heartbreaking . . . . Of This Earth may remind the reader . . . of the autobiographies of Tolstoy and Herzen . . . in their mix of the elemental! the serene and the wondrous. Those works are among the masterpieces of autobiography! and Wiebe’s work stands close beside them.” — Edmonton Journal (review) Praise for Sweeter than All the World : • NATIONAL BESTSELLER “One of Canada’s most gifted writers – a peerless delineator of his country’s history and soul.” – Canadian Jewish News “Rudy Wiebe has written his epic. . . . Richly satisfying and worth reading and pondering again and again.” – Kitchener-Waterloo Record “Wiebe succeeds in making [history] dramatic! intriguing! romantic and tragic.” – Calgary Herald Informationen zum Autor RUDY WIEBE's novels, stories and essays stand at the forefront of Canadian literature. He is an Officer of the Order of Canada. He has won the Governor General's Literary Award for Fiction twice, for The Temptations of Big Bear and for A Discovery of Strangers . He is also the co-author of Stolen Life , which won the Viacom Canada Writers' Trust Non-Fiction Prize, the Saskatchewan Book Award for Non-Fiction and the Alberta Book Award, and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Literary Award for Non-Fiction. His memoir, Of This Earth , won the Charles Taylor Prize for Literary Non-Fiction and was a national bestseller. Klappentext A beautiful! moving memoir of a boy's coming of age! infused with a deep love of the land! from one of Canada's most cherished and acclaimed writers. In Of This Earth! Rudy Wiebe gives vivid life again to the vanished world of Speedwell! Saskatchewan! an isolated! poplar-forested! mostly Mennonite community - and Rudy's first home. Too young to do heavy work! Rudy witnessed a way of life that was soon to disappear. And we experience with him the hard labour of clearing the stony! silty bushland; the ...

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• Autori: Rudy Wiebe
• Editore: Random House Canada
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 06.02.2007
• EAN: 9780676977530
• ISBN: 978-0-676-97753-0
• Pagine: 416
• Dimensioni: 132 mm x 202 mm x 22 mm
• Categoria: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari