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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780670063635
ISBN: 0670063630
Label: Viking Canada (AHC)
Manufacturer: Viking Canada (AHC)
Number Of Pages: 360
Publication Date: September 09, 2008
Publisher: Viking Canada (AHC)
Studio: Viking Canada (AHC)
Sales Rank: 14
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This is a complex and colorful tale that deals with the incredible struggles of a First Nations family's attempts to become reconciled after years of living apart and suffering alone. The novel's main setting encompasses the wilds of northern Ontario where a family has grown up learning to survive by living off the land. As they reach adulthood, the pull of the urban south enters their lives and the family draws apart.The story picks up when an uncle and niece eventually reconnect under very strange ... Read More
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In reading "Through Black Spruce", I found myself intrigued as much with author Joseph Boyden's writing style as with the story itself. The book slapped me with some confusion in the first three chapters, as I realized that Boyden was using a double narrative style, and the majority of the book alternated between the primary narrator - bush pilot and Cree native, Will Bird and then the other narrator his niece, Annie Bird. The style is an effective method of telling two separate stories of individuals ... Read More
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I read Three Day Road in about 2 days....I couldn't stop reading. It was gripping!
And now this book by Boyden. It's utterly amazing! I can't remember the last time I ate a book with my eyes...I'll read everything he writes in future.
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I read Three Day Road a couple of years ago and it immediately became one of my favorite books. Since then, I have regularly checked for updates as to when another Boyden novel would be released...
Once again, I've been blown away. A beautiful and haunting book that will stay with you long after the last page. Believable details and the tragic, yet lovable characters made for an intense story. I, honestly, could not put this one down.
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