Sundre
A Novel
- Publisher
- Vehicule Press
- Initial publish date
- Apr 2009
- Category
- Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781550652536
- Publish Date
- Apr 2009
- List Price
- $16.95
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Description
An unsettling secret joins husband and wife as they sift through layers of recollection in a quest to find comfort, philosophical acceptance, and ultimately forgiveness.
Set on a family farm in Sundre, Alberta during the late 1960s, at a time of transition when farming was shifting away from tradition, Sundre is a haunting meditation on the limits of love and mercy, on the natural and the unnatural.
Told in a tone that is as dignified as it is unsettling, Sundre builds to a foreboding and fundamental revelation in a mood reminiscent of Sam Shepard's best drama. Sundre is an homage to a way of life bygone and to lasting hard-earned truths.
About the author
Christopher Willard, author of Garbage Head (Véhicule Press, 2005), is a writer and visual artist. His art appears in collections worldwide including the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
