Wax Boats: Stories

Author:   Sarah Roberts
Publisher:   Caitlin Press
ISBN:  

9781894759403


Pages:   174
Publication Date:   28 April 2010
Format:   Paperback
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"In Sarah Robert's debut collection ""Wax Boats"", a rural island community comes to life in action-packed, evocative tales. Cougar ladies fight the BC wilderness and the inevitable extinction of their peaceful island lives. An expectant mother turns to Native traditions to guide her through a safe delivery. A Boy Scout troupe rescues their own leader, and learns to welcome someone ""from away"". The collection introduces thought-provoking characters caught between the encroaching modern, industrial world and the hard truths of lives lived at the edge of everything."

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Author:   Sarah Roberts
Publisher:   Caitlin Press
Imprint:   Caitlin Press
Dimensions:   Width: 20.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 14.00cm
Weight:   0.232kg
ISBN:  

9781894759403


ISBN 10:   1894759400
Pages:   174
Publication Date:   28 April 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock   Availability explained
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Roberts' dozen stories in Wax Boats are vibrant with the 'genius of place, ' to borrow a term from Ethel Wilson, as well as memorable characterization. Somewhat reminiscent of Kinsella's '~rez' characters or Anne Cameron's melange of wacky west coast families, the stories reveal a complicated world of boats, beach camping, wild bush women and men, ancient lore, longhouses, cougars and beer -- BC Bookworld


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Sarah Roberts is an award-winning writer and a graduate of the University of Victoria's creative writing program. She has worked as a writer for the Ministry of Forests, Aboriginal Affairs, freelanced for newspapers and magazines and has published as a ghost writer. Her short stories have been published by literary journals in Canada, New Zealand, England and the United States. She lives in Gibsons, BC, with her husband Eli, a bird and two tiny dogs. This is her first book.

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