Icefields - Brossura

Wharton, Thomas

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0920897878 ISBN 13: 9780920897874

Casa editrice: Newest Pr, 1995

Riassunto

Icefields is a story of adventure and discovery that unfolds amidst the stunning beauty of the Canadian Rockies. Presented within the frame of a tourist guidebook, this novel records life in the mountains, as time and the coming of the railroad slowly transform the settlement of Jasper from a place of myth and legend to a modern tourist town. Exhaustively researched, this novel blends geology and poetry, fact and fiction, history and imagination.

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L'autore

Thomas WhartonThomas Wharton was born in Grande Prairie, Alberta, a northern Canada oil and gas boomtown. He spent much of his youth moving from town to town, and settled for a few years in Jasper, Alberta. The small town so influenced Wharton that he set his debut novel, Icefields, there.

After a variety of jobs -- including hiking guide, bookstore clerk, lab technician, and technical illustrator -- he set his sights on writing. Receiving his M.A. in English from the University of Alberta in 1993, Wharton turned his thesis into his first novel, Icefields. NeWest Press published his debut in 1995 in his native Canada, where it received critical acclaim, and hit local bestseller lists. Washington Square Press, a division of Pocket Books, published the U.S. edition of Icefields on September 9, 1996.

Wharton is currently working on his Ph.D. in English at University of Calgary. He lives with his wife and two small children.

(Click here to read an interview with the author.)

Product Description

Book by Wharton Thomas

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Newest Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0920897878
• ISBN 13: 9780920897874
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Lingua: Inglese
• Numero di pagine: 274
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile