- Paperback: 220 pages
- Publisher: Red Deer Press; 1 edition (Dec 30 2005)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0889953120
- ISBN-13: 978-0889953123
- Product Dimensions: 19.9 x 15.7 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 222 g
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #295,099 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"The inevitable confrontations in this memorable novel leave no one unchanged."
-- Library Journal
"Unusual, skilled fiction. . . . Van Herk successfully manipulates an unusual narrative."
-- Booklist
"Written with care, sensitivity and considerable style."
-- Publisher's Weekly
"Aritha van Herk's creation of a mystical world infiltrated by reality captures little blue moments of intensity and truth that can hurt."
-- Dallas Times-Herald
Product Description
In The Tent Peg, award-winning novelist Aritha van Herk uses her unerring perception and impressive literary skill to capture the mystical mood of the Arctic and the people who are drawn to it.
In this intriguing story, a young woman who disguises herself as a man to work in a uranium prospecting camp deep in the Yukon mountains. J.L. is on the run from an empty heart and is desperate for solitude. Yet solitude eludes her from the moment she hangs up her pots and pans in the cook tent, and the men in the camp begin to drift toward her, drawn by her silence. These men are drifters, romantics and outcasts - men who have come to the North in search of answers for questions they can't define.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
interesting...,
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This review is from: The Tent Peg (Paperback)
This book was written in a different way, with several of the characters in "first person" which made it a little confusing. But, once you get into the novel it gets more clear. I found it very interesting, especially because it looks at a woman's perspective in an all man's mining camp. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a different reading experience in wilderness books.
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Adore, adore, adore,
By jlkelly "jlkelly" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Tent Peg (Paperback)
I so love this book.The way she captures different characters speaking, the way she describes the wilderness with just enough, but not too much. The way JL is weak and empowered. I so wish I could read more about JL. I highly recommend this book to every woman on the planet. I love it. I've read it every year for the past 14 years.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A BEAUTIFUL NOVEL,
By silverfish - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Tent Peg (Hardcover)
This spare novel of a young woman who infiltrates an all-male geologists' camp in northern Canada uses the technique of rotating narrators pioneered by Faulkner in As I Lay Dying to achieve a wonderfully multi-dimensional evocation of the main character. Though certain of the peripheral characters, notably Jerome and Milton, never break free of caricature, the novel is made profound, and rereadable, by the strength, honesty and uniqueness of J.L. I completely fell in love with her. You will too.
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Absolutely Nails the Bush Camp Atmosphere,
By Chris Yanda - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Tent Peg (Paperback)
The book is about a camp cook in a Geology camp in the Northwest Territories of Canada.I worked in the Bush in Canada for eleven years and everyone I know who has lived in those camps finds this book extremely evocative of the camp experience. I read this book cover to cover in one sitting. I don't think you need to have lived that life to enjoy the story, however. It's an excellent piece of writing.
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