Born With A Tooth
1st Edition
Published on 6. August 2013
288 pages
978-0-14-318971-8 (ISBN)
Description
Before internationally acclaimed author Joseph Boyden penned his bestselling novel Three Day Road and his Scotiabank Giller Prize-winning novel, Through Black Spruce, he published a powerful collection of thirteen stories about modern Aboriginal life that made readers and reviewers take notice. These stories of love, loss, rage and resilience match virtuosic style with clever wit to turn stereotypes on their head and reveal the traditions and grace of our First Peoples. Readers come to know a butterfly-costumed boy fascinated by the world of professional wrestling, a young woman who falls in love with a wolf, to the leader of an all-girl Native punk band and Painted Tongue, the unforgettable character from Through Black Spruce. Though each story is told in a different and distinct voice, they are all united by their captivating vitality, nuanced perceptions and vigorous prose.
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JOSEPH BOYDEN's first novel, Three Day Road, was selected for the Today Show Book Club, won the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, the CBA Libris Fiction Book of the Year Award, and the Amazon.ca/Books in Canada First Novel Award, and was shortlisted for the Governor General's Award for Fiction. His second novel, Through Black Spruce, was awarded the Scotiabank Giller Prize and named the Canadian Booksellers Association Fiction Book of the Year; it also earned him the CBA's Author of the Year Award. His most recent novel, The Orenda, won Canada Reads and was nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the Governor General's Award for Fiction. Boyden divides his time between Northern Ontario and Louisiana.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- East Labour
- Born With A Tooth
- Shawanagan Bingo Queen
- You Don't Want to Know What Jenny Two Bears Did
- South Ruin
- Painted Tongue
- Bearwalker
- Men Don't Ask
- West Running
- Kumamuk
- Legend of the Sugar Girl
- Abitibi Canyon
- North Home
- Legless Joe versus Black Robe
- Gasoline
- God's Children
- Old Man
