Wild Geese |
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Author:
| Ostenso, Martha |
Afterword by:
| Arnason, David |
Series title: | New Canadian Library |
ISBN: | 978-0-7710-9994-6 |
Publication Date: | Oct 1996 |
Publisher: | McClelland & Stewart
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Imprint: | New Canadian Library |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $9.95 |
Book Description:
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Wild Geesecaused a sensation when it was first published in 1925. To a generation bred on sentimental escapist literature, the idea of a heroine as wild as a bronco and as fiery as a tigress was nothing short of revolutionary. In the character of Judith Gare, Martha Ostenso had painted so naked and uncompromising a portrait of human passion and need that it crossed all bounds of propriety and convention. Today,Wild Geeseis widely recognized as a milestone in the development of modern...
More DescriptionWild Geesecaused a sensation when it was first published in 1925. To a generation bred on sentimental escapist literature, the idea of a heroine as wild as a bronco and as fiery as a tigress was nothing short of revolutionary. In the character of Judith Gare, Martha Ostenso had painted so naked and uncompromising a portrait of human passion and need that it crossed all bounds of propriety and convention. Today,Wild Geeseis widely recognized as a milestone in the development of modern realist fiction. Set on the windswept prairies, it is a story of love and tyranny, of destruction and survival, told with vigour and lyric beauty. It is also a poignant evocation of loneliness, which, like the call of the wild geese, is beyond human warmth, beyond tragedy, “an endless quest.”