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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Uproarious,
By Ted Vance (Montreal Quebec) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Words of My Roaring (Paperback)
At its best, Kroetsch's fiction is impossible to resist. The present volume is no exception. The author beautifully evokes every detail of dusbowl Alberta, from rusty old Chevs to rodeos to farmer's daughters. As Johnny backstrom's campaign picks up speed, we watch a man transformed by hucksterism and inflammatory rhetoric. needless to say, parallels to our own politicians are everywhere apparent. But this novel is primarily a yarn, like all of Kroetsch's novels. It bounds along like a prairie school bus--solid, loud, colorful and true.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
One of RK's most underrated novels,
By Christopher Wangler (Alberta, the best province in Canada) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Words of My Roaring (Paperback)
I got to proofread this book for the U of A Press and met the author on several occasions. The experience convinced me to stay in publishing. Kroetsch is a warm, interesting man with a fantastic ability to tell a story. His character, Johnnie Backstrom, makes meaningful but unfortunate mistakes. The miracle of this novel is that you identify with him from page one. The couleur locale, moreover, is priceless. Incidentally, the cover painting is a by a relatively famous Canadian painter, as are most U of A books. This is a beautiful, readable edition of a novel that the Torontonians, in their infinite wisdom, let slide out of print. What muckie-mucks.
5.0 out of 5 stars
A great read,
By A Customer
This review is from: The Words of My Roaring (Paperback)
Robert Kroetsch's book is a classic novel of the depression and the rise to power of 'Bible Bill' Aberhart's Social Credit in the Alberta Legislature. But it's more than that -- it is truly Canadian literature, evoking in poetic terms both the prairies and the lushness of southern Ontario, and the multicultural nature of the Canadian people.
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