Return of the Jaguar (Paperback)

Norm Cuddy

ISBN 10: 0995868905 / ISBN 13: 9780995868908

Published by Chester House Press, 2017

About this Item

Paperback. Part memoir, part secrets of the sculptors craft, part celebration of Canadian culture and talent Life and Bronze is the story behind Ruth Abernethys rich and varied artistic career. The author describes each of her sculpting projects from opening discussion to creation to installation and public unveiling. We discover what the public chooses to commemorate, how a sculptor resolves clear expressions of character, and how the entire process fits into a full family life. We become privy to Ruths unique methods, which are greatly influenced by her years of stagecraft at the Stratford Festival and across Canada. We meet prime ministers, musicians, doctors, athletes, and a huge Manitoba black bear named Duke. Ruths Canadian commissions include Glenn Gould at CBC Toronto, Oscar Peterson and Mario Bernardi at the National Arts Centre Ottawa, military Physician and poet John McCrae (In Flanders Fields) at Ottawa and Guelph, and Sir John A. Macdonald in both Picton and Baden, Ontario. Ruths bronze installations honour outstanding theatre artists in Stratford, Waterloo and Winnipeg and exceptional scientists and engineers in Kentville, Wolfville and in Vancouver. This is a lavishly illustrated record of bronze portraits created in the privacy of Ruths studio and let loose to lie on the streetscapes of Canada. Ted, a Canadian lawyer on extended vacation in Mexico, becomes attracted to Bailey, an American woman seeking revenge for the 1997 massacre she witnessed of 45 people by paramilitary forces in a Chiapas village. In aiding the rebel Zapatista cause and its charismatic leader, Ted tests his mettle by finding himself ensnared in a culture of violence. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK or US warehouse, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Return of the Jaguar (Paperback)
• Publisher: Chester House Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0995868905
• ISBN 13: 9780995868908
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Norm Cuddy's Return of the Jaguar is a geopolitical thriller with a dose of a love story. It is based on the factual account of the massacre of forty-five Mayan Indians (including fifteen children) on December 22, 1997, in a mountain village in Chiapas, Mexico. The enigmatic Subcomandante Marcos, the leader of the Zapatista rebels, claimed that government-sponsored paramilitaries were responsible for the attack.

The story is set four years later, when Marcos is resurfacing, demanding freedom for the Mayans, more land to farm, equal justice, and autonomous political power. It tells the story of a young, damaged American woman who returns to Mexico seeking revenge for the massacre from which she managed to escape, then unwittingly becomes involved in a revolution for justice. Her journey becomes embroiled with Ted's, a lawyer from Vancouver, and the two become dangerously entangled in the violence of the opposing factions.

About the Author

Norm Cuddy was born in Manitoba, where he graduated from U of M with a Law degree in 1974. He and his wife, Rose, moved to Halfmoon Bay, BC, in 2007, and Norm continued to practice law in both Winnipeg and Vancouver until 2015. In his free time, Norm loved to write fiction, and one of his many passions was sailing, frequently navigating the beautiful coastal waters of BC with Rose. Norm passed away at his home on June 6, 2016. Several months later, Rose found the completed manuscript for Return of the Jaguar on a drive in his desk.