Visible Worlds by Marilyn Bowering

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Visible Worlds by Marilyn Bowering

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Two stories from distant worlds make up this book. In the farming country of Winnipeg, two brothers grow up and part in the 1930s, while Fika has lost her companions to a frosty death and she must ski for a month to reach civilization on the other side of the North Pole. Will she survive?

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Visible Worlds by Marilyn Bowering

Mesmerizing storytelling, great themes embodied and hidden in the workings of realistic relationships and lives, precise language and a strong whiff of the uncanny -- a magnificent novel. * A moving and memorable epic tale that spans decades and continents to bring us the riches of one family's history of intertwined lives. * In the farming country of Winnipeg, two brothers grow up and apart in the 1930s, gravitating towards a parent each as mother and father themselves find a changing climate in world affairs reaching out to their rural backwater and prising them asunder...* Exhaustion is crippling FIka at the icecap; it's midwinter 1960, and she's lost her companions to a frosty death, can barely carry her lifeblood, and must still ski for a month yet to reach civilization on the other side of the North Pole. Will she survive? Where will she find the will? * Quite how these two gripping tales on their separate sides of the globe unfold and come together as mesmerizingly as they do is the beauty and the accomplishment of this magical epic.
Marilyn Bowering is a Canadian playwright, poet and novelist; her one previous novel was To All Appearances a Lady (1989)
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ISBN 13 9780006551133
ISBN 10 0006551130
Title Visible Worlds
Author Marilyn Bowering
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Binding Type Paperback
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Year published 1999-05-17
Number of pages 304
Prizes Short-listed for Orange Prize for Fiction 1999
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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