- Paperback: 200 pages
- Publisher: Thistledown Press; 1 edition (Mar 19 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1895449855
- ISBN-13: 978-1895449853
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 13.7 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 318 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #575,441 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The Secret of the Northern Lights continues the chronicle which has delighted thousands and outraged a select few since Silas Ermineskin first appropriated the English language in 1977 with Dance Me Outside.
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The Secret of the Northern Lights continues the chronicle which has delighted thousands and outraged a select few since Silas Ermineskin first appropriated the English language in 1977 in Dance Me Outside. As part of his apprenticeship to Mad Etta, medicine woman on the Ermineskin reserve, Silas learns a whole bunch of inside information and shares it with us. I learned that everybody got a past that can be used against them, Etta tells him. But, more interesting I learned that if you haven't got a past that can be used against you, you haven't lived enough to be any use to anybody.
When he's out on the road with Brother Frank Fencepost, the Trickster incarnate, we join a slapstick First Nations tour through the follies of our culture. Sacred white buffalo get kidnapped and cloned, Levantine radicals are provided with Ermineskin identities, and Frank and Silas represent the Nation of Hobbema at the Commonwealth Games.
Humour, as always, is the leveler. Nothing is taken too seriously, nothing is sacred. Yet serious, even tragic, things do happen and sacred things are accomplished, while Kinsella -- as if incidentally--twists a skewer again and again through the cant, sentimentality and glib indignations of political correctness.
The Secret of the Northern Lights is certain to challenge and delight, as well as enlighten.
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