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Record Nr.

UNINA9910139611403321

Autore

Schroeder Andreas

Titolo

Dustship glory : based on a true story / / Andreas Schroeder

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Athabasca University Press, 2011

Edmonton, Alberta : , : AU Press, , 2011

©2011

ISBN

1-283-27976-2

9786613279767

1-926836-23-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (277 pages)

Collana

Mingling Voices, , 1917-9413

Disciplina

813.54

Soggetti

Saskatchewan Fiction

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Based on a true story."

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title Page; Series Information; Copyright Page; Dedication; Preface; Dustship Glory; 1. The Bob Kleppner Picnic [Summer, 1934]; 2. Corporal G.T. Mortimer [RCMP, retired]; 3. The Consignment; 4. The Invention of Damian Sukanen; 5. Taking Delivery; 6. Elsie Berton [Schoolteacher, retired]; 7. Sea-trials; 8. More Light; 9. Aili; 10. West by North One-quarter North; 11. The Cunard Line; 12. Clay Jackson [Former Manybones Resident]; 13. Purity is Best; 14. A Matter of Record; 15. Summer of '34; 16. Summer of '34 continued...; 17. Avro Sukanen [Nephew of Tom Sukanen

Pool-Room Proprietor, Swift Current]18. Crokersland; 19. Cristina Thorndike [Former Manybones Resident]; 20. A Jonah; 21. An Invitation to Dinner; 22. The Twister; 23. Sontianen; 24. Casting off; 25. Margaret Hollington [Former Manybones Resident]; 26. Corporal G.T. Mortimer [RCMP, retired] continued...; 27. Rain; 28. Elmer Frayne [Implement Dealer, Pennant Junction]; 29. Fear the Lord; 30. And Praise his Holy Name; 31. Corporal G.T. Mortimer [RCMP, retired] continued...; 32. Ward Admission Record; 33. Louise Griffiths [Psychiatric Nurse, retired]; Epilogue; Afterword; About the Author

Sommario/riassunto

In this new edition of a prairie classic, Andreas Schroeder fictionalizes the true story of Tom Sukanen's wild scheme to build an ocean-going



ship in the middle of a wheat field in Saskatchewan. Set during the hardships of the ""Dirty Thirties,"" Dustship Glory presents us with Sukanen's mythic effort to escape both the drought and pestilence of his time, as well as his own personal struggle to be free. Featuring an illuminating foreword by beloved Saskatoon writer Don Kerr, Dustship Glory will provide Canadian and international audiences alike with the opportunity to reacquaint themselves wit