An extraordinary novel about family from one of Canada's most acclaimed poets.
Patrick Lane is the author of There Is a Season (2004), his highly acclaimed memoir, which won the Lieutenant Governor's Award for Literary Excellence and the inaugural British Columbia Award for Canadian Non-fiction. One of the country's most celebrated poets, he has received numerous awards, including the Governor General's Award and two National Magazine Awards. Lane lives near Victoria, B.C., with his wife, the poet Lorna Crozier. Red Dog, Red Dog is his debut novel.
Lane is undeniably an accomplished writer...and his achievement
here is his evocation of a forbidding landscape as the element in
which these embittered characters have their being...It is fitting
that Lane's oracular first novel ends not conclusively but with a
hint of the continuation of the kind of story it has told so
well
*TLS*
Set in 1958, with flashbacks to the Depression and settler eras,
this impressive tale of redneck life in British Columbia exudes
suffering and menace.
*Financial Times*
The tale, with Tom and Eddy at its heart, is one of loathing,
neglect, abuse and brutality, with little redemption except the
powerful, vivid quality of the writing itself...Lane is talented
and five decades as a poet are evident in his prose: rich and
evocative, yet always precise.
*Observer*
the writing is beautiful.
*The Times*
[a] formidable debut.
*Guardian*
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