Icarus
Published on 4. March 2002
Book
Hardback
232 pages
978-0-919028-49-4 (ISBN)
Description
Icarus, a young urban misfit, discovers a treasure map in a second-hand bookstore, He, his two brothers, and five of their friends set out into the wilderness of the Rocky Mountains in search of the Lost Lemon Mine, where they hope to find a hoard of hidden gold.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Canada
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
With dust jacket
Illustrations
Illustrations, black and white
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
Weight
501 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-919028-49-4 (9780919028494)
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Louise Young has worked as a social worker, fire tower worker and model. At the University of Victoria, she completed two BFAs - one in creative writing and the other in painting. Her stories have appeared in The Malahat Review, The Louisville Review and Prism International, while her play, Hungry Ghosts, won the CBC Playwriting Competition in 1989. Icarus is her first novel. Young lives in Victoria, B.C.