- Paperback: 220 pages
- Publisher: The University of Alberta Press; New edition edition (Nov 1 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0888643039
- ISBN-13: 978-0888643032
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 13.4 x 2.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 299 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #335,722 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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From it opening sentence, Robert Kroetsch's 1978 novel, What the Crow Said, offers itself as the Canadian One Hundred Years of Solitude: "People, years later, blamed everything on the bees; it was the bees, they said, seducing Vera Lang, that started everything." The reprehensible "everything" includes the climatic reversals of summer and winter, a marathon card game of 151 days, children raised by coyotes, talking ravens, and a "war with the sky."
If tropical heat is a partial explanation for the fecund magic realism of Gabriel Garcia Marquez and company, Kroetsch makes similar use of the nakedness and isolation of the Prairies. What the Crow Said is set exclusively in a fictitious farm community that straddles the Alberta-Saskatchewan border and leaves its citizens debating time zones and constantly threatening secession. Larger-than-life characters suffer ignominious deaths more comic than tragic. Animals domestic and wild are conscripted into a perpetual gender war. Liebhaber, a printer, "remembers the future" and labours out the one-sentence novel "You in my arms." A tall tale of short, frenetic chapters, Crow is as unforgettable as it is fantastic. --Darryl Whetter
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"[The] reissued What the Crow Said and The Words of My Roaring… honour Kroetsch’s enormous contribution to Canadian literature and … ensure his work will be available to a new generation of readers." – University of Toronto Quarterly, Winter 2001/2002, Letters in Canada, vol 71:1
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This review is from: What the crow said (Hardcover)
The book was as old as the hills, but I only payed $0.01 for it so I guess I cant complain. It was delivered pretty fast
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Too weird to put down...,
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I had to read this for my 20th century lit class. Just read the first 2 pgs, and you'll know what I mean by weird. But strangely enough... i couldn't stop reading once I got a little ways in. So many weird things happen that you just want to know how it ends. A strange, twisted, interesting book.
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Too weird to put down...,
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This review is from: What the Crow Said (Paperback)
I had to read this for my 20th century lit class. Just read the first 2 pgs, and you'll know what I mean by weird. But strangely enough... i couldn't stop reading once I got a little ways in. So many weird things happen that you just want to know how it ends. A strange, twisted, interesting book.
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