Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson

Monkey Beach by Eden Robinson

Monkey Beach creates a vivid contemporary landscape that draws the reader deep into a traditional world, a hidden universe of premonition, pain and power. --Thomas King

Tragedy strikes a Native community when the Hill family's handsome seventeen-year-old son, Jimmy, mysteriously vanishes at sea. Left behind to cope during the search-and-rescue effort is his sister, Lisamarie, a wayward teenager with a dark secret. She sets off alone in search of Jimmy through the Douglas Channel and heads for Monkey Beach--a shore famed for its sasquatch sightings. Infused by turns with darkness and humour, Monkey Beach is a spellbinding voyage into the long, cool shadows of B.C.'s Coast Mountains, blending teen culture, Haisla lore, nature spirits and human tenderness into a multi-layered story of loss and redemption.

EDEN ROBINSON is the author of a collection of novellas called Traplines, which won the Winifred Holtby Prize in the UK. Her first novel, Monkey Beach, won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award for Fiction. It was followed by Blood Sports, and then Son of a Trickster, the first instalment of her trilogy, which was a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and Canada Reads. Trickster Drift, the second book in the trilogy, won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize. In 2017, Eden was awarded the Writers' Trust Fellowship. She lives in Kitimat, BC.

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ISBN 13	9780676973228
ISBN 10	0676973221
Title	Monkey Beach
Author	Eden Robinson
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Canada
Year published	2001-01-09
Number of pages	384
Prizes	Winner of BC Book Prize's Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize 2001, Short-listed for Governor General's Literary Awards - Fiction 2000, Short-listed for Scotiabank Giller Prize 2000, Short-listed for Sunburst Award 2001
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