Wheel Keeper, The
- Publisher
- NeWest Press
- Initial publish date
- Sep 2002
- Category
- General, Literary
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781896300498
- Publish Date
- Sep 2002
- List Price
- $14.95
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Description
Told from the point of view of an Italian Canadian child, The Wheel Keeper centres on the grandmothers forced emigration from Italy as a young unwed mother, and the building of a hydroelectric dam which will flood the British Columbia village in which the story is set.
About the author
Robert Pepper-Smith was born in Revelstoke, BC. He currently lives on a farm in the Cinnabar valley with his wife Anna and teaches philosophy at Vancouver Island University. His childhood in Revelstoke and his experience as a volunteer paramedic with the NGO Alianza in Guatemala have inspired this work. The Wheel Keeper (2002) was his first full-length work of fiction. In September 2011, NeWest released Robert's second novella, House of Spells. The Orchard Keepers, a collection of these two books with a third, Sanctuary, which finishes the series, was released in Spring 2017.
