Long After Fathers - Softcover

Rees, Roberta

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1550503588 ISBN 13: 9781550503586

Publisher: Coteau Books, 2007

Synopsis

A collection of linked short stories about three women whose lives are connected by blood, time and the mountainous landscape of the Crowsnest Pass.In Long After Fathers Jessie meets life head-on, and sometimes with her fists. Her fierce, indomitable spirit is tempered by humour and love. Rosalind, Jessie's daughter, has inherited her mother's dauntless spirit and her father's eye and ear for music and poetry. Solange, Rosalind's friend, must flee her inheritance - the coal slag of her backyard - for Calgary, where she can assume the disguise of a desirable woman.The women's stories are like the image of the mountainous landscape that is ever-changing with shifts in the weather. Their shared events are changed by memories, their desires and loyalties. The poetic narrative springs from the women's hearts and completes the entire landscape of Long After Fathers .

About this title

About the Author

Roberta Rees's novel, Beneath the Faceless Mountain, set in the Crowsnest Pass, received the Alberta New Fiction Competition and the Writers Guild of Alberta Novel Award. Her first book, the poetry collection Eyes Like Pigeons, won the national Gerald Lampert Award and the Writers Guild of Alberta Poetry Award. Her work has been published in anthologies, and numerous magazines and literary journals.

Edition details

• Publisher: Coteau Books
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1550503588
• ISBN 13: 9781550503586
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 205