Letter to a Distant Father
- Publisher
- Brick Books
- Initial publish date
- Oct 1987
- Category
- Canadian
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781771311533
- Publish Date
- Oct 1987
- List Price
- $11.99
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9780919626324
- Publish Date
- Jan 1987
- List Price
- $9.95
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Description
The writer of the letter in Kenneth Radu's title poem is reaching across an enormous silence: from a microchipped contemporary Canadian setting to the rest home on the Black Sea where his father is dying; and then even further, back to their lives in a peasant village before the son’s escape under the wire.
About the author
Kenneth Radu is a seasoned, award-winning writer of novels, short stories, non-fiction, and poetry. His first novel, Distant Relations, received the Quebec Writers' Federation Award for Best English-language Fiction. A collection of stories, A Private Performance, was also honoured with the award. A previous collection, The Cost of Living, was nominated for the Governor General's Award. His most recent work includes two collections of stories, Sex in Russia, and Earthbound, both published by DC Books, as well as the novel Butterfly in Amber.