Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden

Through Black Spruce by Joseph Boyden

A haunting novel of love, identity, and loss-from the internationally acclaimed author of Three Day Road

Beautifully written and startlingly original, Through Black Spruce takes the considerable talents of Canadian novelist Joseph Boyden to new and exciting heights. This is the story of two immensely compelling characters: Will Bird, a legendary Cree bush pilot who lies comatose in a remote Ontario hospital; and Annie Bird, Will's niece, a beautiful loner and trapper who has come to sit beside her uncle's bed. Broken in different ways, the two take silent communion in their unspoken kinship, revealing a story rife with heartbreak, fierce love, ancient feuds, mysterious disappearances, murders, and the bonds that hold a family, and a people, together. From the rugged Canadian wilderness to the drug-fueled glamour of the Manhattan club scene, this is thrilling, atmospheric storytelling at its finest.

Joseph Boyden's first two novels were nominated for nearly every literary award in Canada. The Rogers Writers Trust Prize, the McNally Robinson Aboriginal Book of the Year, the Canadian Authors Association Book of the Year, the Libris Book of the Year, and the Amazon/Canada First Novel Award were all given to Three Day Road in 2005. The Scotiabank Giller Prize, the Libris Novel of the Year, and the Libris Author of the Year were all awarded to Through Black Spruce (2008). Boyden received the Diamond Jubilee Medal from Queen Elizabeth II in 2012 for his services to Canadian art and culture. The Orenda was the best-selling book in the country the following year. He splits his time between Northern Ontario and New Orleans, Louisiana, as a professor at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver and the Institute of American Indigenous Arts in Sante Fe, New Mexico.

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ISBN 13	9780670020577
ISBN 10	0670020575
Title	Through Black Spruce
Author	Joseph Boyden
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Viking Books
Year published	2009-04-01
Number of pages	360
Prizes	Winner of Scotiabank Giller Prize 2008, Winner of Libris Awards (Fiction) 2009
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