Cattle
Published on 31. August 2023
Book
Paperback/Softback
205 pages
978-1-77843-024-4 (ISBN)
Description
A novel from the dark heart of early twentieth-century Alberta, featuring a new introduction by Dr. Lily Cho.
A bully cattle rancher upends the lives of everyone he encounters and a pandemic makes those lives even more precarious. A full century after its first publication, Cattle remains a story of brutality. A curious Canadian mixture of Hardy and Steinbeck,Cattle is built on the deep contradictions of a settler ideology, asking readers to not look away from the many modes of violence bound up in Canadian history.
Our Throwback books also give back: a percentage of each book's sales will be donated to a designated Canadian cultural organization. Royalties from sales of Cattle benefit Central Alberta Women's Emergency Shelter.
A bully cattle rancher upends the lives of everyone he encounters and a pandemic makes those lives even more precarious. A full century after its first publication, Cattle remains a story of brutality. A curious Canadian mixture of Hardy and Steinbeck,Cattle is built on the deep contradictions of a settler ideology, asking readers to not look away from the many modes of violence bound up in Canadian history.
Our Throwback books also give back: a percentage of each book's sales will be donated to a designated Canadian cultural organization. Royalties from sales of Cattle benefit Central Alberta Women's Emergency Shelter.
Reviews / Votes
"I was shocked when I taught Cattle for the first time. My students found it so fresh and so immediate. The novel addresses so many contemporary issues: #MeToo, settler colonialism, a pandemic, and more. In the same year that the Chinese Exclusion Act was passed, Eaton even makes space for heroism on the part of a vulnerable Chinese man separated from his family and working for a brute of a man."-Dr. Mary Chapman, Professor at the University of British Columbia and Director of the Winnifred Eaton Archive"If you're a fan of the hit TV series Yellowstone and its prequel 1923, you are going to absolutely love this novel."-Lost Ladies of Lit Podcast
More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Canada
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 201 mm
Width: 124 mm
Thickness: 13 mm
Weight
230 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-77843-024-4 (9781778430244)
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Persons
Winnifred Eaton Babcock Reeve (1875-1954) was a popular early Asian North American author, journalist, screenwriter and playwright whose best known works were published under the pen-name Onoto Watanna, a controversial persona that she assumed for over two decades. (Biography courtesy of the The Winnifred Eaton Archive, an accessible, fully searchable, digital scholarly edition of the collected works of Winnifred Eaton Babcock Reeve.)