Places Far From Ellesmere

by Aritha Van Herk

Overview

Internationally acclaimed novelist Aritha van Herk takes geography and fiction and creates of them a fiction mapped on the lines of geography, a geography following the course of fiction. A new reading of Tolstoy's tragic heroine Anna Karenina and a sojourn at Ellesmere Island come together, and the North becomes an incomparably beautiful place, a living, unread, feminine landscape.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780889950603
Publisher:	Red Deer Press
Publication date:	01/09/2003
Series:	Anthologies Series
Pages:	144
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Aritha van Herk was born in central Alberta, and studied at the University of Alberta. She first rose to international literary prominence with the publication of Judith, which received the Seal First Novel Award and which was published in North America, the United Kingdom and Europe. She is a member of the Royal Society of Canada, and a Professor who teaches Canadian Literature and Creative Writing in the Department of English at the University of Calgary.

Editorial Reviews

"Profound insights into both landscape and literary theory."

— Globe and Mail

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