The Healer
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1999
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Flamingo (Verlag)
978-0-00-655145-4 (ISBN)
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978-0-00-655145-4 (ISBN)
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A tale of mystery and healing from the Canadian forest, where nature can be nasty and men can easily go mad.
A tale of mystery and healing from the Canadian forests, where Nature can be nasty and men can easily go mad. * We're in the Canadian uplands, a landscape of lakes and forests, cabins and canoes, hunters and hunted. The Healer is a young teenage girl with a gift she finds hard to bear: she seems able to heal the sick, to drive out foul spirits. Her father is a brutal man: strong, tempestuous and violent, he finds it hard to accommodate his daughter's abilities in the way she would wish. A journalist, our principal narrator, comes between them, sent by his magazine to secure a story. * Entranced by the girl and the emptiness of the land, he buys from a persuasive realtor the derelict lakeside cabin which becomes the centre of the action, as all three main characters swirl into a vortex of vengeance and violence -- violence reflected in a landscape of storms and floods of terrifying power. Hollingshead proves himself a writer who knows the lethal force latent in the natural world. And that man is an animal too.
A tale of mystery and healing from the Canadian forests, where Nature can be nasty and men can easily go mad. * We're in the Canadian uplands, a landscape of lakes and forests, cabins and canoes, hunters and hunted. The Healer is a young teenage girl with a gift she finds hard to bear: she seems able to heal the sick, to drive out foul spirits. Her father is a brutal man: strong, tempestuous and violent, he finds it hard to accommodate his daughter's abilities in the way she would wish. A journalist, our principal narrator, comes between them, sent by his magazine to secure a story. * Entranced by the girl and the emptiness of the land, he buys from a persuasive realtor the derelict lakeside cabin which becomes the centre of the action, as all three main characters swirl into a vortex of vengeance and violence -- violence reflected in a landscape of storms and floods of terrifying power. Hollingshead proves himself a writer who knows the lethal force latent in the natural world. And that man is an animal too.
Greg hollingshead is the author of one previous novel, Spin Dry, and three sets of stories, Famous Players, White Buick and The Roaring Girl. Only The Roaring Girl was published outside Canada. He teaches at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 3.12.1999 |
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Verlagsort | London |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 130 x 197 mm |
Gewicht | 236 g |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Krimi / Thriller / Horror |
Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen | |
ISBN-10 | 0-00-655145-9 / 0006551459 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-00-655145-4 / 9780006551454 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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