River People
- Publisher
- Pottersfield Press
- Initial publish date
- Feb 2022
- Category
- General
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781989725757
- Publish Date
- Feb 2022
- List Price
- $21.95
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781989725764
- Publish Date
- Feb 2020
- List Price
- $14.99
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Description
River People is Wayne Curtis's collection of short stories set in the Miramichi River Valley of New Brunswick. As always, he brings his keen observation and insights to his writing, describing the landscape and the inhabitants with candour but also a heartfelt empathy, for this is territory of both land and soul with which he is so familiar.
Curtis chronicles the disappointment of a refined British war bride when she marries a New Brunswick woodsman, the terrible hold a youthful love affair has on a young man throughout his life, the need to belong for children of a youth home, the consequences of first-time passion for a girl and the boy who loves her, and the weight of responsibility burdening a lad who has a brief glimpse of what life in town could be like for him.
Shimmering in each story is Curtis's love for the great river and the woods, for the bounties they provide and the hardships for those people tied to the backbreaking work required to make a living from them.
About the author
Wayne Curtis is an award-winning author who has written twenty-one books and a screenplay for the CBC. His stories have appeared in The Globe and Mail, the National Post, Reader's Digest, The Antigonish Review, The Dalhousie Review, The Fiddlehead and the American magazines Fly-Fisherman and Sporting Classics.
Wayne Curtis received an Honorary Doctorate Degree (Letters) from St. Thomas University and he was awarded the Order of New Brunswick.
Wayne has lived in southern Ontario, Yukon Territories and Cuba. He divides his time between Fredericton and his cabin on the Miramichi River. Sons of a Fisherman is his twenty-first book.
