Coming Home: Saskatchewan RememberedDundurn, 2002 - 212 páginas The stories in Coming Home are as surprising as the landscape of Saskatchewan itself and as varied as its weather. Through the author's reminiscences, we experience prairie life as it was more than sixty years ago, and as it is today. A rich cast of characters appears - neighbours, drunks, misfits - all with a place in the story. These are the tales of a father who lived hard, failed often, and was loved much, of a mother who was an artist at heart but became a teacher and farmer's wife through circumstance. We visit a prairie dance hall with a floor that rests on horsehair, encounter death, baptize a child, participate in a nude massage. We view sex from a farm boy's perspective, learn of home brew and cabbage rolls, eat breakfast with friends, and meet the author's favourite waitress. A sense of awe and wonder emerges through encounters with the land and the unfolding of the changing seasons. |
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Howling at the moon | 25 |
15 | 31 |
In the beginning was the dream | 37 |
Every so often I need reminding | 115 |
Of poppy seed and cabbage rolls | 119 |
A letter received | 125 |
August | 129 |
Coming home | 131 |
QuAppelle | 135 |
Dirt | 141 |
A sewer went out to sow | 147 |
Landscaping | 45 |
The night God played at Danceland | 49 |
At the jazz concert | 57 |
They come in threes | 59 |
Peace be with you | 65 |
Why is it the good ones go first? | 69 |
Trick or treat | 75 |
A kind of hope | 79 |
November | 83 |
Relax and purr | 85 |
Better a happy house | 91 |
Of saints and other things | 99 |
Remembering the queens toilet | 103 |
The only subject | 105 |
A love story | 111 |
Glory glory how peculiar | 155 |
In the space between | 159 |
What name shall we give this child? | 165 |
I took some comfort there | 171 |
At prayer | 177 |
Breakfast at Peter Ds | 183 |
From a distance | 187 |
Let your light so shine | 189 |
In gratitude | 193 |
A time beyond fixing | 197 |
A good funeral | 201 |
Dust to dust | 207 |
At the gas station | 211 |
Acknowledgements | 213 |