Return of the Native
Published on 1. August 2012
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-1-55081-230-5 (ISBN)
Description
Kissing the big-city life goodbye, Udo Nomi returns to Newfoundland from Toronto for a once-in-a-lifetime chance to be a hero for his people, to help free The Republic. In a comic, quasi-parody of the liberties taken by contemporary writers of historical fiction, Udo discovers the quagmires which exist in historical scholarship. The past is not so certain after all. Perhaps what really matters, Udo comes to learn, is the way we narrate the present and our own role in it.
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Language
English
Place of publication
St Johns
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
black & white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 9 mm
Weight
222 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-55081-230-5 (9781550812305)
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Person
Jonathan Butler, a native of St. John's, Newfoundland, and former co-editor of Descant, has published short fiction, poetry and essays in Canada and Taiwan.
He has taught American literature and creative writing at the University of Toronto where he received a doctorate in 2001. He currently holds a tenured position in the department of English at Kainan University in Taiwan. Return of the Native is his first published novel.