Half-Light
University of Alberta Press (Verlag)
978-1-77212-740-9 (ISBN)
Braiding together personal, collective, and historical explorations of what it means to “go west,” Amy Kaler’s Half-Light: Westbound on a Hot Planet offers deep reflections on the meaning of life, middle age, and climate catastrophe. Her memoir weaves together three strands: living with the knowledge of one’s own aging and mortality; the slow-moving catastrophes of climate change; and the human history of the North American settler west, especially locations that hold traces of vanished pasts. Many of the “ruins” Kaler explores—faded hamlets, bunkers, fields of cars, bends in the river—are interesting in themselves, and some serve as emblems of hope, generational commitment abandoned by contemporary heirs, faith, hubris, even carelessness. These stops are intertwined with reflections on aging, temporality, and change, making the book feel like a deeply satisfying road trip with a thoughtful friend. Moving from meditative to sobering in compelling and measured ways, Half-Light shimmers with urgency and suggestion.
Amy Kaler is an Edmonton-based writer and Professor of Sociology at the University of Alberta. She has lived in Edmonton, Treaty 6 territory since 2000. She is the author of Until Further Notice: A Year in Pandemic Time, a collection of essays published in 2022. She is also the author of three previous books. Kaler won the Cecile E. Mactaggart Travel Prize for Narrative Writing in 2019 and was shortlisted for the Edna Staebler Award for Personal Essays in 2021 and longlisted in 2022. Her nonacademic work appears in The New Quarterly, Queens Quarterly, and Spadina Literary Review.
Prologue
Central Alberta, Somewhere Near Rumsey
Westbound
Retlaw
On Fire for the Rest of My Life
Rossdale Flats and the Bomb Shelter
The West and Its Ruins
Swan Hills
Campus Saint-Jean
The End of the World and the Ends of the Earth
Dalum
Orphans
St. Paul
My Seventies
Strathcona Science Park
The Years Before Me, the Years Behind
Newbrook
Ancestors and Descendants
Wostok and Spaca Moskalyk
Home for the Time Being
Packingtown
The Most Important Things Have Already Happened
Holy Transfiguration
Standing Pose
Rowley
“Your Cell Will Teach You”
Newcastle Mine
Time Management
Abbotsford
Keeping Time
Rochfort Bridge
Pigeons
Palliser Triangle
Who Is That?
Bunchberry Meadows
Top Ten Crises
Beaverhill Lake
Epilogue: Eastbound
References
| Erscheinungsdatum | 25.05.2024 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Wayfarer |
| Zusatzinfo | 20 Halftones, black and white |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 280 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Regional- / Landesgeschichte | |
| Reisen ► Reiseberichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-77212-740-X / 177212740X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-77212-740-9 / 9781772127409 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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