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Monkey beach

Robinson, Eden. (Author).

Summary: -- Monkey BeachMonkey Beach Robinson fills her novel with details of Haisla culture and the rich wildlife surrounding Kitamaat. She uses traditional elements of storytelling - such as dreams, and people's ties to nature - but also demystifies Native beliefs, simultaneously peeling away and intensifying the mystery surrounding spirits. Ancient rituals are shown as part of the reality of a modern Native community, along with Kraft Dinner and TV soaps and the legacy of residential schools. Robinson's previous book of stories, -- From the Trade Paperback edition.

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  • ISBN: 9780307363930
  • ISBN: 0307363937
  • ISBN: 0676973221
  • ISBN: 9780676973228
  • Physical Description: remote
    1 online resource (377 pages)
  • Publisher: Toronto : Vintage Canada, [2001, 2000]

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Subject: Haisla Indians -- Fiction
Brothers -- Death -- Fiction
Indian women -- Fiction
Young women -- Fiction
Kitimat Region (B.C.) -- Fiction
British Columbia -- Fiction
Rocky Mountains -- Fiction
FICTION -- General
Brothers -- Death
Haisla Indians
Indian women
Young women
British Columbia
British Columbia -- Kitimat Region
Rocky Mountains
Genre: Electronic books.
Fiction.

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Haisla/Heiltsuk novelist EDEN ROBINSON is the author of a collection of short stories written when she was a Goth called Traplines, which won the Winifred Holtby Prize in the UK. Her two previous novels, Monkey Beach and Blood Sports, were written before she discovered she was gluten-intolerant and tend to be quite grim, the latter being especially gruesome because half-way through writing the manuscript, Robinson gave up a two-pack a day cigarette habit and the more she suffered, the more her characters suffered. Monkey Beach won the Ethel Wilson Fiction Prize and was a finalist for the Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award for Fiction. Son of a Trickster was written under the influence of pan-fried tofu and nutritional yeast, which may explain things but probably doesn't. The author lives in Kitimat, BC.

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