A teenage boy's curious road trip across a radically changing country.
In the year 1967, fifteen-year-old Robin drives an antique pickup truck west from Saskatchewan, travelling on farmland and on unmapped roads to avoid police. Like Odysseus striving toward home, he encounters trying situations: men on the run, hippies creating utopia, marijuana farmers, mechanical breakdowns, a raging forest fire. Robin passes through a massively changing society - a rural culture that, though eroding, hangs on to values of kindness and endurance, and one in which Robin must be both heroic and vulnerable.
A RARE MACHINES BOOK
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Dennis E. Bolen's insightful, beautiful coming-of-age novel Amaranthine Chevrolet is a hero's journey filled with danger and yearning. * Foreword Reviews * More odyssey than road trip, Amaranthine Chevrolet is a vivid inquiry into a young man's emerging sense of self. In spare and evocative language, Dennis Bolen sweeps you into the rhythm of the road, to a place located somewhere between memory and dreams, and there he reinvents the male protagonist in a miracle of a young man with an adamantine purity of purpose. A unique, fresh, and engrossing story. * Joan Thomas, author of Wild Hope * Amaranthine Chevrolet is the story of a boy's pilgrimage in an enchanted chariot like none other. Spare and incisive with all hell for a basement; this is prairie noir at its best. * Ashley Little, author of Niagara Motel * Sure-handed storytelling that reads simply and cleanly and carries great depth and meaning in the telling, Amaranthine Chevrolet lingers and casts a ruddy western glow on the imagination. * The Seaboard Review * With that spare style Bolen (Anticipated Results) conjures up the vast expanse of the prairies where the story starts; but that's not to say he isn't incapable of ornamentation. Sometimes, the narrative contains charming bursts of lyricism-"as the heretofore comforting silence vanished inside the ardent tintinnabulation, the vibration made him strangely know that others existed on this freshening morning"-and lines like this burst out of the prairie sparseness like song birds plunging from the branches of trees. * The BC Review *
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Maße
Höhe: 211 mm
Breite: 140 mm
Dicke: 23 mm
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ISBN-13
978-1-4597-5477-5 (9781459754775)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Dennis E Bolen is the author of several novels, short story collections, and one volume of poetry. His fiction explores the experience of varied careers: social worker, university instructor, arts journalist, accounts clerk, mill worker, farm hand. He grew up on Vancouver Island and now lives in Victoria, B.C.
