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Long After Fathers
A collection of linked short stories about three women whose lives are connected by blood, time and the mountainous landscape of the Crowsnest Pass.In Long After Fathers Jessie meets life head-on, and sometimes with her fists. Her fierce, indomitable spirit is tempered by humour and love. Rosalind, Jessie's daughter, has inherited her mother's dauntless spirit and her father's eye and ear for music and poetry. Solange, Rosalind's friend, must flee her inheritance - the coal slag of her backyard - for Calgary, where she can assume the disguise of a desirable woman.The women's stories are like the image of the mountainous landscape that is ever-changing with shifts in the weather. Their shared events are changed by memories, their desires and loyalties. The poetic narrative springs from the women's hearts and completes the entire landscape of Long After Fathers .
205 pages, Paperback
First published April 27, 2007
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November 25, 2009
I had to give up this book after struggling through three quarters of it. I feel bad about that! I would LIKE to have said that the book was great! It was written by a lovely lady whom I met on a long walk in the mountains outside of Calgary and, for her sake, I really wanted to like it.
The book reads more like poetry than prose. There's nothing wrong with that! I love writing that has a lyrical quality to it (e.g. Anne Michael's "Fugitive Pieces" and Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient"). This book, however, was so fractured, moving constantly back and forth in time, that I felt lost: I didn't know what was going on. I never felt I got to know the characters: Jesse - somewhat, but Rosalind not at all. I didn't get as far as Solange and Olive!
Perhaps the problem lies with me, not with the book. If anyone has read it, I'd love to hear their comments.
The book reads more like poetry than prose. There's nothing wrong with that! I love writing that has a lyrical quality to it (e.g. Anne Michael's "Fugitive Pieces" and Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient"). This book, however, was so fractured, moving constantly back and forth in time, that I felt lost: I didn't know what was going on. I never felt I got to know the characters: Jesse - somewhat, but Rosalind not at all. I didn't get as far as Solange and Olive!
Perhaps the problem lies with me, not with the book. If anyone has read it, I'd love to hear their comments.
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