The Healer by Greg Hollingshead
A tale of mystery and healing from the Canadian forests, where Nature can be nasty and men can easily go mad. * The force of William Faulkner combines with Michael Ondaatje's giddying lyricism in this devastating novel from Canada. * We're in the Canadian uplands, a landscape of lakes and forests, cabins and canoes, hunters and hunted. The Healer is a young teenage girl with a gift she finds hard to bear: she seems able to heal the sick, to drive out foul spirits. * Her father is a brutal man: strong, tempestuous and violent, he finds it hard to accommodate his daughter's abilities in the way she would wish. A journalist, our principal narrator, comes between them, sent by his magazine to secure a story. * Entranced by the girl and the emptiness of the land, he buys from a persuasive realtor a derelict fisherman's lakeside cabin, which is utterly inaccessible in the midst of a vast forest, in which he -- and others -- lose their tracks. The cabin becomes the centre of the action, and all three main characters swirl into a vortex of vengeance and violence -- violence reflected in a landscape of storms and floods of terrifying power. Hollingshead proves himself a writer who knows the lethal force latent in the natural world. And that man is an animal too.
Praise for Greg Hollingshead: 'Hollingshead's prose is outlandishly original, blunt, awful and funnyHere are tiny, fiery worlds that make you roar with laughter in the first paragraph, cry in the last. A magical, unmissable, crazily perfect book.' Julie Myerson, Mail on Sunday 'He has a way of making the ordinary buckle and twist into something quite bizarre' Observer 'Brilliant and funny. Every line sparkles with originality and intelligence' Barbara Gowdy
Greg hollingshead is the author of one previous novel, Spin Dry, and three sets of stories, Famous Players, White Buick and The Roaring Girl. Only The Roaring Girl was published outside Canada. He teaches at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780002257978 |
| ISBN 10 | 0002257971 |
| Title | The Healer |
| Author | Greg Hollingshead |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding type | Hardback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1999-02-01 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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