The Healer - Brossura

Hollingshead, Greg

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0006551459 ISBN 13: 9780006551454

Casa editrice: Flamingo, 1999

Riassunto

A tale of mystery and healing from the Canadian forests, where Nature can be nasty and men can easily go mad.

We’re in the Canadian uplands, a landscape of lakes and forests, cabins and canoes, hunters and hunted. The Healer is a young teenage girl with a gift she finds hard to bear: she seems able to heal the sick, to drive out foul spirits. Her father is a brutal man: strong, tempestuous and violent, he finds it hard to accommodate his daughter’s abilities in the way she would wish. A journalist, our principal narrator, comes between them, sent by his magazine to secure a story.

Entranced by the girl and the emptiness of the land, he buys from a persuasive realtor the derelict lakeside cabin which becomes the centre of the action, as all three main characters swirl into a vortex of vengeance and violence – violence reflected in a landscape of storms and floods of terrifying power. Hollingshead proves himself a writer who knows the lethal force latent in the natural world. And that man is an animal too.

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From the reviews for The Healer:

‘A mad-tongued Gothic tale, a blend of high drama and sly, dark marvels’
New York Times

‘There are some wonderfully poetic and resonant images in this novel; the descriptions of the Canadian landscape are incandescent and some of the set-pieces both hilarious and disturbing.’
Francis Gilbert, The Times

L'autore:

Greg hollingshead is the author of one previous novel, Spin Dry, and three sets of stories, Famous Players, White Buick and The Roaring Girl. Only The Roaring Girl was published outside Canada. He teaches at the University of Alberta in Edmonton.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Flamingo
• Data di pubblicazione: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0006551459
• ISBN 13: 9780006551454
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272