5.0 out of 5 stars
Stays in your memory, July 26 2010
This review is from: Badlands (Paperback)
I first read Badlands shortly after it came out in 1975. It stuck in my mind, especially the idea of floating down the Red Deer River through that part of Alberta, so full of contrasts from lush to stark, desolate to beautiful. Well, it took three and a half decades, but I finally did it last weekend. A friend and I rented sea kayaks, loaded up our camping gear and paddled down 62 kilometres of this unique geographic area that extends several hundred km. Kroetsch's evocative sense of landscape, strong in all his works that I've read, succeeded to such a degree that the imagined reality was in perfect sync with the actual experience. A rare enough experience in life that I'm writing this review to thank the author.
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