Rudy Wiebe: Collected Stories, 1955–2010 (cuRRents) - Softcover

Wiebe, Rudy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0888645406 ISBN 13: 9780888645401

Publisher: University of Alberta Press, 2010

Synopsis

For more than fifty years, Canadian literary legend Rudy Wiebe has been defining and refining prairie literature through his oeuvre of world-renowned novels, histories, essays, and short stories. He has introduced generations of readers far and wide to western Canadian Mennonite, aboriginal, and settler culture. Some say he wrote the book on historical prairie fiction. In fact, he's written quite a few. The University of Alberta Press is proud to publish the fifty short stories that Wiebe completed between 1955 and 2010, including four previously unpublished stories. This is a must-have book for aficionados of great world literature, fans of prairie fiction, and Wiebe's faithful readers.

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Book Description

Collection of short stories from world-renown author Rudy Wiebe.

From the Back Cover

Front Flap: For more than fifty years, Canadian literary legend Rudy Wiebe has been defining and refining prairie literature through his oeuvre of world-renowned novels, histories, essays, and short stories. He has introduced generations of readers far and wide to western Canadian Mennonite, aboriginal, and settler culture. Some say he "wrote the book" on historical prairie fiction. In fact, he's written quite a few. This volume contains the fifty short stories that Wiebe completed between 1955 and 2010, including four previously unpublished stories. This is an essential book for aficionados of great world literature, fans of prairie fiction, and Wiebe's faithful readers. Back Cover: Suddenly the angel stopped speaking; it was studying her. I...I can't...." Bertha confessed to it at last, "I can understand every word you...every word, but I can't say, I've forgotten...." In its silence the angel looked at her; slowly its expression changed. It might have been showing pity, though of course that is really difficult to tell with angels. Then it folded its lower wings over its feet, its upper wings over its face, and with an ineffable movement of its giant middle wings it rose, straight upward into the blue sky. They bent back staring after it, and in a moment it had vanished in light. [From "The Angel of the Tar Sands"] Back Flap: Rudy Wiebe was born in the Mennonite homestead community of Speedwell, east of Turtle Lake, Saskatchewan. Since the 1950s, he has been inspiring readers with over twenty-five books, including nine novels, four collections of stories, and ten creative nonfiction volumes of essays, biography, and autobiography. Wiebe received the Governor General's Award for Fiction in 1973 for The Temptations of Big Bear and again in 1994 for A Discovery of Strangers. In 2004 he won the Charles Taylor Prize for his memoir, Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest. Wiebe is an Officer of the Order of Canada. He lives with his wife Tena in Edmonton, Alberta.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Alberta Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0888645406
• ISBN 13: 9780888645401
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 552