Indian Horse
| Category: | Book |
| By (author): | Wagamese, Richard |
| Subject: | FICTION / Canadian |
| FICTION / Literary | |
| Awards: | People's Choice Award of Canada Reads (2012) Winner International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award (2014) Short-listed First Nations Community Reads (2012) Winner |
| Publisher: | Douglas And McIntyre (2013) Ltd. |
| Published: | January 2012 |
| Format: | Book-paperback |
| Pages: | 232 |
| Size: | 8.60in x 5.60in x 0.65in |
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Additional Notes
| From The Publisher* | An unforgettable work of art.-National Post Saul Indian Horse is dying. Tucked away in a hospice high above the clash and clang of a big city, he embarks on a marvellous journey of imagination back through the life he led as a northern Ojibway, with all its sorrows and joys. With compassion and insight, author Richard Wagamese traces through his fictional characters the decline of a culture and a cultural way. For Saul, taken forcibly from the land and his family when he's sent to residential school, salvation comes for a while through his incredible gifts as a hockey player. But in the harsh realities of 1960s Canada, he battles obdurate racism and the spirit-destroying effects of cultural alienation and displacement. Indian Horse unfolds against the bleak loveliness of northern Ontario, all rock, marsh, bog and cedar. Wagamese writes with a spare beauty, penetrating the heart of a remarkable Ojibway man. |
| Review Quote* | "Richard Wagamese is a born storyteller." |
| Review Quote* | "Wagamese writes with brutal clarity... [and] finds alleviating balance through magical legend." |
| Review Quote* | "Wagamese is capable of true grace on the page." |
| Review Quote* | "Richard Wagamese is a national treasure." |
| Review Quote* | "Richard Wagamese's writing is sweet medicine for the soul." |
| Review Quote* | "Indian Horse is a force for healing in our beautiful, broken world." |
| Review Quote* | "Wagamese captures the beauty of hockey as few sportswriters could hope to match." |
| Review Quote* | "Wagamese pulls off a fine balancing act: exposing the horrors of the country's residential schools while also celebrating Canada's national game." |
| Review Quote* | "Indian Horse distills much of what Wagamese has been writing about for his whole career into a clearer and sharper liquor, both more bitter and more moving than he has managed in the past. He is such a master of empathy -- of delineating the experience of time passing, of lessons being learned, of tragedies being endured -- that what Saul discovers becomes something the reader learns, as well, shocking and alien, valuable and true. " |