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Alberta
By Robert Kroetsch
Edited by Rudy Wiebe
Photographs by Harry Savage
Robert Kroetsch captures the beauty of this province in this endearing documentation of his Alberta experiencefrom the dinosaur digs in the Badlands to the Calgary Stampede to the site of Big Bears prophetic vision of kd langs hometown, Stettler.
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Robert Kroetsch captures the beauty of this province in this endearing documentation of his Alberta experiencefrom the dinosaur digs in the Badlands to the Calgary Stampede to the site of Big Bears prophetic vision of kd langs hometown, Stettler.
Robert Kroetsch
Robert Kroetsch
Robert Kroetsch is the author eight novels includingThe Puppeteer, Alibi, andWhat the Crow Said. Also to his credit are several volumes of poetry and nonfiction works. Robert Kroetsch is a Governor Generals Award winner.
Rudy Wiebe
Rudy Wiebe was born in 1934 near Fairholme, Saskatchewan. Rudy has a B.A. in English and M.A. in Creative Writing, both from the University of Alberta. He studied under a Rotary International Fellowship at the University of Tubingen in West Germany, and in 1962 he received a Bachelor of Theology degree from the Mennonite Brethren Bible College. In 1962-1963 he was editor of the Mennonite Brethren Herald, a position that he resigned because of the controversy over his first novel, Peace Shall Destroy Many. From 1967 to 1992 he was Professor of Creative Writing and English at the University of Alberta. Wiebe has published twenty-five books, including nine novels and the non-fiction best-seller Stolen Life: The Journey of a Cree Woman, co-authored with Yvonne Johnson. He was awarded the Governor General's Award for fiction for The Temptations of Big Bear in 1973, and again in 1994 for A Discovery of Strangers. He is also the winner of the Lorne Pierce Gold Metal of the Royal Society of Canada for his contribution to Canadian literature (1987). Wiebe has served as chairman of both the Writer's Guild of Alberta and the Writers' Union of Canada. His book of essays, Playing Dead, was the first book in NeWest's Landmark Editions series. Wiebe lives in Edmonton, Alberta.
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- Dimensions 312 pages, 6 x 9 x 0.75 in
- Published October 16, 1993
- Publisher NeWest Press
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- Keywords Canada , History Of The Americas
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