The Archaeologists - Softcover

Hal Niedzviecki

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1894037790 ISBN 13: 9781894037792

Publisher: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2016

Synopsis

In The Archaeologists, residents of the fictional edge city of Wississauga are embroiled in a fight over the fate of a riverbed running behind their homes. Their paths intersect, bringing personal dilemmas and self-deceptions to the forefront. Has June discovered bones of the first inhabitants in her backyard? Will Tim learn the truth about his parents? Can Charlie make a connection she so desperately needs? Does Rose hold the key to it all?

About this title

About the Author

Hal Niedzviecki is a writer, speaker, culture commentator and editor whose work challenges preconceptions and confronts readers with the offenses of everyday life. He is the author of eleven books of fiction and nonfiction, including Trees on Mars: Our Obsession with the Future (2015), and the publisher/founder of Broken Pencil, a magazine of zine culture and the independent arts. Hal's writing has appeared in newspapers and journals across the world including The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, Utne Reader, The Globe and Mail, The Walrus, and Geist. Hal lives and works in Toronto.

Review

Hal Niedzviecki's vividly portrayed characters, caught in the conflict between the natural and the urban, resonate with the rage that unbridled modernity raises in all of us, whether we know it or not. The Archaeologists is a novel Jane Jacobs would have loved. --Wayne Grady, author of Emancipation Day

About this edition

• Publisher: Arbeiter Ring Publishing
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1894037790
• ISBN 13: 9781894037792
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 240