- Hardcover: 307 pages
- Publisher: Random House Canada; First Canadian Edition edition (Mar 31 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0679309179
- ISBN-13: 978-0679309178
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14.5 x 3.3 cm
- Shipping Weight: 544 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #629,502 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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
Governor General's Award-winning author Robert Kroetsch takes us back to the historic days of the Klondike Gold Rush with a gripping tale of three entrepreneurs desperate to strike it rich.
Fourteen-year-old Peek and his mother, known to most as Lou, hitch up with Benjamin Redd, a cooper with a secret stash of whiskey -- he intends to sell it and buy into his friend Dan McGrew's claim in Dawson. The three of them endure avalanches, near-starvation, treachery, and a cast of colourful characters in their quest to reach the fabled city and find their fortune. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Fourteen-year-old Peek and his mother, known to most as Lou, hitch up with Benjamin Redd, a cooper with a secret stash of whiskey -- he intends to sell it and buy into his friend Dan McGrew's claim in Dawson. The three of them endure avalanches, near-starvation, treachery, and a cast of colourful characters in their quest to reach the fabled city and find their fortune. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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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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