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Through Black Spruce:a Novel
[Paperback - 2010]
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Category: Fiction
Sub-category: Literary Fiction
Additional Category: Psychological Fiction
Publisher: Penguin Books | ISBN: 9780143116509 | Pages: 368
Shipping Weight: .335 | Dimensions: 5.46 x .76 x 8.4 inches

A haunting novel of love, identity, and loss-from the internationally acclaimed author of Three Day Road

Beautifully written and startlingly original, Through Black Spruce takes the considerable talents of Canadian novelist Joseph Boyden to new and exciting heights. This is the story of two immensely compelling characters: Will Bird, a legendary Cree bush pilot who lies comatose in a remote Ontario hospital; and Annie Bird, Will's niece, a beautiful loner and trapper who has come to sit beside her uncle's bed. Broken in different ways, the two take silent communion in their unspoken kinship, revealing a story rife with heartbreak, fierce love, ancient feuds, mysterious disappearances, murders, and the bonds that hold a family, and a people, together. From the rugged Canadian wilderness to the drug-fueled glamour of the Manhattan club scene, this is thrilling, atmospheric storytelling at its finest.

Joseph Boyden is a Canadian novelist and short story writer.He grew up in Willowdale, North York, Ontario and attended the Jesuit-run Brebeuf College School. Boyden's father Raymond Wilfrid Boyden was a medical officer renowned for his bravery, who was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and was the highest-decorated medical officer of World War II.Boyden, of Irish, Scottish and Métis heritage, writes about First Nations heritage and culture.Three Day Road, a novel about two Cree soldiers serving in the Canadian military during World War I, is inspired by Ojibwa Francis Pegahmagabow, the legendary First World War sniper. Boyden's second novel,Through Black Sprucefollows the story of Will, son of one of the characters inThree Day Road. He has indicated in interviews that the titles are part of a planned trilogy, the third of which is forthcoming.He studied creative writing at York University and the University of New Orleans, and subsequently taught in the Aboriginal Student Program at Northern College. He divides his time between Louisiana, where he and his wife, Amanda Boyden, are writers in residence, and Northern Ontario.

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