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Fiction Humorous

Gone Indian

by (author) Robert Kroetsch

Publisher
Red Deer Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2003
Category
Humorous, General
  • Paperback / softback

    ISBN
    9780773760868
    Publish Date
    Feb 2003
    List Price
    $6.95

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Description

Jeremy Sadness is a professional grad student of New York State University who heads out for the wilds of northwestern Canada to work out his inadequacies.

About the author

Robert Kroetsch was a teacher, editor and award-winning writer. Born in Heisler, Alberta, in 1927, Kroetsch grew up on his parents' farm and studied at the University of Alberta and the University of Iowa. He taught at the State University of New York, Binghamton, until the late 1970s and then returned to Canada, where he taught at the University of Calgary and the University of Manitoba from the 1970s through the 1990s. Kroetsch also spent time at the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts and many writer-in-residencies, where he powerfully influenced recent writing on the Canadian prairies and elsewhere. His generosity of spirit and openness to the new showed many authors new ways to pursue their own kinds of writing. In honour of both his writing and his contributions to Canadian culture in general, Kroetsch was made an Officer of the Order of Canada in 2004. In 2011 he received the Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Distinguished Artist Award. Robert Kroetsch died in a car accident outside of Edmonton, Alberta, in 2011.

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