Contributions

  • Robert Rawdon Wilson (Introduction) - Contributor

Publication

1998 - The University of Alberta Press

Language

English

Word Count

56,000 words, Guess

Page Count

224 pages

Physical Format

Paperback

Identifiers

and 3 more
  • Library of Congress Control Numbercn98910861
  • Goodreads826767
  • LibraryThing433998

Classifications

  • LCCPR9199.3.K7 W48 1998

Description

What the Crow Said tells the exuberant, ribald, elemental tale of the citizens of a town somewhere on the weather-beaten border between Alberta and Saskatchewan. After Vera Lang consorts with a swarm of bees, something changes in Big Indian. This prairie municipality - so remote from the rest of the world that its citizens aren't sure which province they live in - becomes somehow locked inside its own world of patience, yearning and willful struggle with nature. Along the way, Big Indian emerges as a place simultaneously in the past and the present, the real and the imaginary, where a game of cards might last forever and a defeated farmer can freeze on his snowbound plow in June.

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