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"What a delightful entertainment, spun together as only master storyteller Robert Kroetsch can weave it. A novel to relish, happily." --Rudy Wiebe
"Fascinating ... a welcome addition to Canada's national literature." --The Vancouver Sun
"The extravagance, the outrage, the glorious grime and heavy nuggets, the people with preposterous names ... I can't remember when I enjoyed a novel so damned much." --George Bowering
"The Catcher in the Rye meets The Call of the Wild... Kroetsch has crafted his most compelling narrative yet." --Winnipeg Free Press
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
"Fascinating ... a welcome addition to Canada's national literature." --The Vancouver Sun
"The extravagance, the outrage, the glorious grime and heavy nuggets, the people with preposterous names ... I can't remember when I enjoyed a novel so damned much." --George Bowering
"The Catcher in the Rye meets The Call of the Wild... Kroetsch has crafted his most compelling narrative yet." --Winnipeg Free Press
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
Set against the Klondike Gold Rush of the 1890s, The Man from the Creeks is a gripping tale of three entrepreneurs desperate to strike it rich. Fourteen-year-old Peek and his mother, Lou, join up with cooper Benjamin Redd and embark on a treacherous journey to fabled Dawson City. First published in 1998, this is a witty and ribald retelling of Robert Service’s incomparable “The Shooting of Dan McGrew.”
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Kroetsch's Klondike,
By Mr. Ed in Toronto (Toronto, Ont) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Man from the Creeks (Paperback)
A terrific tale--and it's response to Robert Service's "The Shooting of Dan McGrew" is only part of the fun. I think Kroetsch lost some of his readers with _Alibi_ and _The Puppeteers_ and they haven't yet discovered how, at the end of his career, he returned to the heights of his wonderful and wonderfully comic story telling. Highly recommended: then, after you've read this, go back and discover _The Words of My Roaring_, _The Studhorse Man_, and _Badlands_
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